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Construction taking place in an area of London. In the foreground are some trees, an a person in a high-vis jacket and trousers is walking through some grass and flowers. In the distance are some tall blocks of flats.

Impact on Urban Health

Data

08 Jul 2025

Urban Health Index 2025

Explore the Urban Health Index, which looks at the social and environmental factors that shape the health of people living in Lambeth and Southwark.

Natasha Feiner

Interim Head of Policy & Influencing

Policy

13 Jun 2025

A healthier future starts with children: Our response to the spending review

Read our response to the UK Government's recently announced spending review.

Impact on Urban Health

Latest updates

Why we’re giving kids a commercial break

We're joining forces with our partners Bite Back and have placed 365 billboards across Lambeth and Southwark with one clear message: “We’ve bought this ad space so the junk food giants couldn’t – we’re giving kids a commercial break.”

Diaraye Barry

Data Visualisation Consultant

Data

Using data to reduce air pollution from construction sites

The Air Pollution Risk Index tool identified areas where improving air quality could have the biggest benefit on people’s health.

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.

Health effects of air pollution

Retrofitting homes for better health

With Repowering London

Children's health and food

Testing a local food marketing platform

With Comuzi

Health effects of air pollution

Heavy goods vehicles, aerial photograph by Ivan Bandura

Campaigning to clean up London’s freight

With Clean Cities

Explore all current partnerships

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 full potential.

Programmes

Health effects of air pollution

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

Programmes

Shoppers at Borough Market, viewed through the brick arch of a bridge. Photograph by Bruno Martins

Financial foundations for adult health

Our vision is a world where everybody has the financial freedom needed for good mental and physical health.

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