This capacity-building event focused on how urban health research can be ‘translated’ into practice and on effective methods of implementing healthy cities through different ways of assessing, developing, leading and engaging. Keynote Presentations:

 

1. Alvaro Valera Sosa, Team Manager, Research & Development, Building Health Lab: “UrbanCare, a practical framework to help pedestrian planners improve urban health.”

2. Carolyn Daher, Coordinator, ISGlobal Urban Planning, Environment and Health Initiative; Acting Executive Director, International Society of Urban Health: “Translating evidence into practice for urban transformation.”

3. Ben Cave, Director, BCA Insight Ltd: “Putting health in impact assessment, in planning and in policies for sustainability.”

4. Charlotte Marchandise, International Consultant: “Health is a political choice”.

5. Marcus Grant, Para-academic, Environmental Stewardship for Health: “Para-academic, Environmental Stewardship for Health”.