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We’re committed to achieving health equity by helping urban areas become healthier places for everyone to live

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Childhood obesity

Mum and daughter at self-checkout in a supermarket

Louise Foreman

Portfolio Manager (community engagement)

Opinion

06 May 2021

Making healthy options easier: how supermarkets can support children’s nutrition

Portfolio Manager Louise Foreman and Engagement Manager Matthias Lomas from Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation discuss how we are working to shape healthier and more equitable food environments.

Matt Towner

Portfolio Manager (paternity leave)

Opinion

30 Apr 2021

Can business help deliver better air quality?

Portfolio Manager Matt Towner explores the role businesses can, and should, play in ensuring economic recovery from the pandemic and health go hand in hand.

Impact on Urban Health

Reports

21 Apr 2021

Global perspectives on urban health

Our report explores how cities around the world are addressing health inequalities and shares their real-world solutions to pressing urban health issues.

Anna Tarkington

Data Partnerships Manager

Opinion

12 Apr 2021

Creating an Urban Health Index for Lambeth and Southwark

Data Partnerships Manager, Anna Tarkington, talks about the launch of the Urban Health Index, a ground-breaking social progress index for Lambeth and Southwark.

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)

15-19 years

the range of life expectancies across London boroughs, for men and women respectively (source: PHE)

Middle of a road filled with car traffic

About us

Our health is hugely influenced by where we grow up, live and work. And in urban areas, we see the best and worst health outcomes, often just roads away from each other.

We are focused on improving health in inner-city areas by understanding and changing how inequalities impact our health.   

Find out more about urban health

Urban health programmes

We focus our work on four complex health issues prevalent in inner-city areas. Find out more about each programme and the partners we're working with.