Explore what we’re learning about improving health in cities.
Data
Some neighbourhoods in Lambeth and Southwark sit close to opportunities on the map but remain cut off from them - shaped by overlapping pressures in people's daily lives. The 2025 Urban Health Index reveals this overlooked pattern, and what it means for the people living it.
Financial foundations for adult health
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.
Health effects of air pollution
We believe people have a right to accurate and accessible information about anything that harms their health, including wood burning.
Health effects of air pollution
Air pollution levels in London have fallen between 2019 and 2022. Use our data dashboard to see how air pollution concentrations have changed over time, and view differences in air quality between London boroughs.
Health effects of air pollution
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.
Health effects of air pollution
Our analysis reveals stark disparities in fleet electrification across the capital, with communities in lower income areas among those bearing the greatest health burden.
Urban health
Wood & Water partnered with Impact on Urban Health to explore how to make conversations around climate change, health inequalities and racism more inclusive. In this guest blog, Natalie Lartey from Wood & Water shares what we’ve learnt.
Congratulations and an update following the appointment of Peter Babudu, Executive Director of Impact on Urban Health, to the House of Lords.
Innovation
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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