There are always variabilities in health outcomes within communities living in a particular place. This is due to factors presented by lived experience and a person’s urban footprint. While the scientific community tests and validates our understanding of variables that lead to health outcomes, we can never truly account for all the variables a citizen might encounter. Often we treat lived experience as unreliable in the face of medical insight. This roundtable discussion is designed to break this down and openly discuss new frameworks to understanding and respecting the role of the lived experience.

This report proposes that our current framing and language of what regeneration means needs to evolve from one that is capital driven and spatially focused, to one that is health driven actively targeting the environmental, social, and governance barriers to health.

This report will focus primarily on the role of the built environment because practitioners have a significant influence on the ability of citizens to build healthy relationships between health and place. As a neuroscience lab our focus and perspective will be from a biological and health lens. Even when practitioners have the right intentions, the initiatives proposed, such as planting trees and creating low traffic neighbourhoods, are rarely determined by the actual environmental or psychosocial quality of the location and thus do not solve fundamental problems or give citizens agency.

In this report, we will highlight the major role that Nature plays in our health, going beyond the mere aesthetic value to understanding the nourishing value of Nature. We will highlight that we cannot live healthy lives without healthy Nature and argue that, for healthy People and a healthy Planet, we must stop treating Nature as a service or commodity.

Join us for this roundtable and panel session about the Urban Health Council’s latest report on ‘Symbiotic Living with Nature’.

Greenwashing happens when we view environmental justice and health as small mechanical fixes like local recycling and congestion charges rather than a cultural and systematic reimagining of our relationship with the natural environment. This roundtable will look at how we assess our current relationship with our natural environment and develop an inclusive and indigenised view of healthy society.

This report is for those working in transport planning and in policy and who are interested in understanding the link between equitable mobility and health. This report will lay out the need for equitable solutions around transport, how health is related to mobility, and a breakdown of equitable mobility zones.

Join us on 31st March for the 1st workshop of the Urban Health Council covering the 3 latest reports on Covid Rehabilitation.

There is a need to introduce a more ecological and systemic lexicon to public health. Ecology is defined as the relationship between organisms and their environment. An ecological approach to public health would examine the interaction of multiple elements that affect a person’s health as part of a connected ecosystem which includes the places a person inhabits and their experiences within them.