14th International Conference on Urban Health

Health Equity: The New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals

26-29 September 2017 | Coimbra, Portugal

ICUH 2017 The only global conference focused on advancing the health of people living in cities worldwide.

Cities are the main drivers of national development and present opportunities to transform a nation's health and wellbeing, so cities must be at the forefront of tackling the global sustainable development agenda.

Topics include coverage of the following board domain areas:

Urban Governance and Equity-oriented Policies
Understanding and Addressing Demographic, Epidemiologic and Societal Change in Cities
Healthy Urban Planning, Measurement and Metrics, Data and Research
Environmental Health and Urban Sustainability
Health Care in Cities – Access, Services and Quality

Who should attend ICUH 2017: academic experts, policymakers and practitioners in:

Public Health
Population Health
Determinants of Health and NCD Prevention
Urban Planning
Economic Development
Housing
Transportation
Built and Natural Environments
Aging
Food Systems
Education
Geography
Health Care Delivery
Care Models in Clinical Medicine, including reproductive, women’s, infant and child health, mental health, infectious disease and NCDs
Resilience
Energy

Reasons to attend ICUH 2017:

Identify challenges and strategies to informing implementation of the SDGs and The New Urban Agenda
Meet experts from across sectors and disciplines to address the broader determinants of health
Expand your research and practice networks with colleagues from the global North and South
Share urban health challenges and solutions with policymakers and practitioners from high, middle and low income settings
Contribute to the evidence base for urban health policies and practice

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Speakers and Chairs include

Ricardo Baptista Leite, City Councillor of Cascais Municipality, Portugal
Pedro Pita Barros, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal
John Beard, World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland
Eugenie Birch, UN–Habitat World Urban Campaign, USA
Birgit de Boissezon, European Commission
Jo Ivey Boufford, The New York Academy of Medicine, USA
Waleska Caiaffa, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-Habitat
Jason Corburn, University of California Berkeley, USA
Carlos Dora, World Health Organization, Switzerland
Alex Ezeh, African Population and Health Research Centre, Kenya
Billie Giles-Corti, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Marcus Grant, Advisor to WHO Healthy Cities Programme, UK
David Grossman, Global Programs ICMA, USA
Marian Jacobs, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Lidia Morawska, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Steffen Nielsen, Director, Cities Changing Diabetes®, Novo Nordisk, Denmark
Tolullah Oni, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Easmon Otupiri, Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science and Technology, Ghana
Susan Parnell, University of Cape Town, South Africa
K. Srinath Reddy, The Public Health Foundation of India, India
Mark W. Rosenberg, Queen’s University, Canada
Gérard Salem, Université de Paris Ouest, France
Remy Sietchiping, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Kenya
Yonette F. Thomas, The New York Academy of Medicine, USA
Sotiris Vardoulakis, Institute of Occupational Medicine, United Kingdom
Richard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus, University of Nottingham, UK
Yongguan Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China