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Urban Health

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Peter Babudu

Executive Director

Opinion

The year in urban health

This year, we’ve worked with over 70 partners to test solutions to the causes of poor health in urban areas. To celebrate just some of their impact this year, we spoke to four of those partners.

Bryony Hirsch

Communications Manager

Reports

19 Nov 2024

More than a meal

An independent evaluation of universal primary free school meals for children in London.

Nikita Sinclair

Co-Head, Children's Health and Food Programme

Opinion

19 Nov 2024

“A policy that does what it’s meant to do”

Evaluating the Mayor of London’s universal primary free school meals policy.

Bryony Hirsch

Communications Manager

Reports

04 Nov 2024

Breastfeeding in focus

This report captures the perspectives of those working in and around breastfeeding and creates a policy and practice landscape of breastfeeding at local and national levels.

Recent partnerships with Impact on Urban Health

We work with local, city, national and international organisations to help urban areas become healthier places to live.

Urban health

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Impera

With Impera Analytics Ltd

Health effects of air pollution

Sunset on the Thames. Photograph by Lucas Peng

Air quality updates in community spaces

With Imperial College London, The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP), and Kasia Molga

Children's mental health

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Transforming Schools into Equitable Spaces: A pilot for bold education reform

With Class 13

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Urban health in numbers

68%

of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2050 (source: the UN)

8 out of 10

people in the UK currently live in cities or towns (source: Population Reference Bureau)

13-15 years

difference in healthy life expectancies at birth across London boroughs, for men and women respectively (source: PHE)

Our programmes

We fund and partner with others to tackle complex health issues more prevalent in urban areas.

Programmes

Children’s health and food

We want to break the link between low income and poor nutrition, by improving the quality of food options in lower-income neighbourhoods.

Programmes

Children’s mental health

Our vision is a world where every child has access to the things they need to be healthy, feel safe, and reach their potential.

Programmes

Health effects of air pollution

Our vision is a healthier world where everyone breathes clean air.

Programmes

Multiple long-term conditions

We want to address the social and economic determinants of health in order to ensure longer, healthier lives for people with multiple long-term conditions.

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