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

10:30-11:00 - Tea/Coffee on arrival
11:00-12:00 - Panel discussion followed by Q&A
Speakers:
- Professor Catalina Turcu (Chair in Sustainable Built Environment, Bartlett School of Planning)
- Michael Chang (Strategic leader and advocate for healthy places, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities)
- Geraint Ellis (Professor in the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen's University, Belfast)

12:00-13:00 - Lunch and networking
13:00-15:00 - World Café and next steps for UCL’s Urban Health Community
Facilitators:
- Prof Edward Fottrell (UCL Institute for Global Health)
- Dr Gemma Moore (Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources)
- Dr Liza Griffin Nura Ali (UCL Development Planning Unit)
- Nura Ali (UCL Development Planning Unit)
- Flavio Pinheiro Martins (UCL Development Planning Unit)

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 student to sign-up as this is an internal network.

Urban Health: A Dialogue Across Disciplines