We focus on four complex health issues more prevalent in urban areas
With the Social Progress Imperative, we've developed the first neighbourhood level, health-focused social progress index of its kind.
With Wellcome Trust
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Where we grow up, live and work hugely influences our health. And in urban areas, we see the best and worst health outcomes, often just roads away from each other. We are Impact on Urban Health. We're focused on improving health in inner-city areas by understanding and changing how inequalities impact our health.
Research and development
As part of our COVID Emergency Fund, we provided Spring Community Hub with unrestricted funding and grants plus support so that they could continue to support people hit hard by COVID indefinitely.
We travelled to COP26 with Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation as part of the 'Clear the air' campaign. Here's what we learnt.
Our Communications Manager, Patrick Lee, explains how addressing the health effects of air pollution are crucial to tackling the climate crisis and improving global health.
Our Programme Director, Kate Langford, explores the fairness and effectiveness of the ULEZ expansion in London.
We work with local, city, national and international organisations to help urban areas become healthier places to live.
Health effects of air pollution
With Gehl
Multiple long-term conditions
With Community Southwark
We fund and partner with others to tackle complex health issues more prevalent in urban areas.
Programmes
We want to find ways to support young people from urban areas with mental health issues and learn how to reduce mental health inequality in communities living on low incomes.
We want to break the link between low income and poor nutrition, by improving the quality of food options in lower-income neighbourhoods.
We want to address the health effects of poor air quality on people whose health is most impacted by air pollution: children, older people and people with heart and lung 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.