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Urban Health: A Dialogue Across Disciplines

18 June 2024, 10:30 am–3:00 pm

Urban Health

Join us on 18 June to hear from a range of experts and to explore how we can leverage UCL's strengths in urban health.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

UCL staff

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Daisy Harvey

Location

Room W3.01
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
United Kingdom

This event will be an opportunity to hear from a range of urban health experts and participate in World Café discussions about how we can leverage our strengths in urban health at the local, national, and global level.

We aim to establish a cross-UCL network to create a strong internal presence and external brand for our work in urban health. The event will facilitate discussions on improving support for urban health-related research and education activities at UCL. It will also be an opportunity to network with other UCL colleagues engaged in urban health research.

The event will be led by founding members of our Urban Health community, with support from UCL Health of the Public and the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment.

Agenda

  • 10:00-11:00 - Tea/Coffee on arrival
  • 11:00-12:00 - Panel discussion followed by Q&A
  • 12:00-13:00 - Lunch and networking
  • 13:00-15:00 - World Café and next steps for UCL’s Urban Health Community

About UCL's Urban Health Community

Our towns and cities shape our health: the air we breathe, the buildings we live in and the spaces we work in, and our access to open spaces, transport, and public services. Urban health is a developing discipline, and we want to bring together our world-leading expertise from a range of disciplines.

Our approach is to take high quality Urban Health as the core vision, and to bring together scholars from across UCL in order to establish an active, cutting-edge, research community. UCL's expertise in a number of disciplines that touch on urban health is exemplary, but the real focus of this initiative is to create something else than the sum of the parts and drive new thinking in this area.

Join our Urban Health Community Teams site to get regular updates on the latest urban health news, events and funding opportunities. Please note you must be a UCL researcher or PhD student to sign-up as this is an internal network.

About the Speakers

Michael Chan

Michael Chan
Michael is a strategic leader and advocate for healthy places, spatial planning and public health. He is a Chartered Fellow town planner and honorary member of the Faculty of Public Health. In the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, he leads the Spatial Planning and Health programme with responsibilities for policy development, writing guidance to enable local implementation on using planning levers to deliver healthier homes and places, and actively supporting the workforce across the career pathway and sectors on planning for health. In addition to his University of Bristol PhD research on the local planning system for health, he is active in research collaborations and publications on a wide range of urban health topics and interests including on the food environment. 

Geraint Ellis

Geraint Ellis
Dr. Geraint Ellis is a Professor in the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen's University, Belfast. Geraint's research interests lie in the broad field of spatial planning and sustainability, with a particular emphasis on environmental governance, renewable energy, marine spatial planning, environmental justice and equality issues in planning. He has also written and researched on pedagogy in planning and environmental education. He has been involved in a range of research projects funded by UK research councils and others, with his most recent projects focussing on renewable energy and the walkability of built environments.