Insights

Explore what we’re learning about improving health in cities.

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Children’s mental health

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Winding down our Children’s Mental Health programme

We’ve made the difficult decision to end our Children’s Mental Health programme earlier than planned.

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Innovation

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Shifting the Power in Research

We partnered with Wellcome to explore how community-centred research can reduce health inequities.

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Financial foundations for adult health

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Penny Rimmer
Penny Rimmer
Senior Policy Officer, Resolve Poverty
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Strengthening community-based debt advice to close the health gap

Penny Rimmer discusses how debt can impact mental and physical health, and why community-based debt advice can support the people most impacted by poverty and problem debt.

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Health effects of air pollution

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Patrick Lee
Patrick Lee
Communications Manager
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Investigation reveals how the stove industry tried to silence clean air campaigns

We believe people have a right to accurate and accessible information about anything that harms their health, including wood burning.

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Health effects of air pollution

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Patrick Lee
Patrick Lee
Communications Manager
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Have your say on wood burning policy

The Government's consultation on new rules for wood burning in homes is an opportunity to influence national policy that will affect our health, our environment and our communities for years to come.

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Health effects of air pollution

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Patrick Lee
Patrick Lee
Communications Manager
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London councils still operating majority diesel fleets despite known health dangers

Our analysis reveals stark disparities in fleet electrification across the capital, with communities in lower income areas among those bearing the greatest health burden.

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Peter Babudu appointed to the House of Lords

Congratulations and an update following the appointment of Peter Babudu, Executive Director of Impact on Urban Health, to the House of Lords.

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Innovation

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Exploring ways to make our decision-making and processes more inclusive

Together with Doing Social, we explored how to make our decision-making more inclusive by involving people with lived experience of health inequities in Lambeth and Southwark.

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Urban health

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2025 in urban health

Looking back at Impact on Urban Health's highlights in 2025.

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