Explore what we’re learning about improving health in cities.
Health effects of air pollution
Our Freedom of Information request finds Children living in the most deprived areas recorded 56,842 hospital admissions for selected respiratory conditions in 2024/25. That disparity is exacerbated by air pollution.
Health effects of air pollution
Phool, a participant in OUR AIR, OUR VOICES, reflects on why the people most affected by air pollution should help shape the policies meant to protect them.
Health effects of air pollution
The Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry into air quality is a rare opportunity to influence air quality policymaking in the UK. This is what we want to see in their upcoming report.
Health effects of air pollution
This year, the Environmental Audit Committee is examining air quality. We partnered with Green Alliance to take the committee out of Westminster and into South London to meet the people who live with air pollution every day.
Children's mental health
Stronger financial support in the first 1001 days of a child’s life is needed to ensure children in the UK get the best start in life.
Children’s mental health
We’ve made the difficult decision to end our Children’s Mental Health programme earlier than planned.
Innovation
We partnered with Wellcome to explore how community-centred research can reduce health inequities.
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.
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