Engagement
Discussing planetary health at the International Conference on Urban Health, Xiamen, China
November 26, 2019
We’ve just returned from Xiamen, an island off the coast of Southern China, where we attended the 2019 International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH), “People-Oriented Urbanisation: Transforming Cities for Health and Well-Being”. ...
Through my involvement with the Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities project and internship through the Queen Elizabeth Scholars program, I was able to travel to both Accra and Nairobi this past summer to explore the topics of health equ...
The Deep Learning Indaba
October 2, 2019
At the end of August this year I visited Kenyatta University in Nairobi. Partly because I’ve always wanted to travel to Kenya, partly because I was co-organising a workshop there and most of all, because, for anyone interested in Data ...
Making Space for Play
August 30, 2019
Today I arrived home to find my five-year-old deeply engaged in a new activity. This endeavor required creativity, physical strength, balance, concentration, goal-setting and persistence. It does not have a formal name, is not a part of ...
Putting the “co-” in co-production of knowledge
August 5, 2019
What is co-production? There are many definitions of co-production of knowledge, a term that is not new yet has recently climbed agendas to become a buzzword in the research and development world. Co-production means collaboration betwee...
“It is so loud sometimes I cannot hear myself think”: that is what one Accra resident tells me in response to the noise in their neighborhood when the team and I approach them to discuss installing air and noise pollution monitoring ...
In our fast urbanising world, an estimated 4.2 billion people live in cities. Although those of us who live in cities are generally wealthier and healthier than those living in rural areas, in large cities like London the rich and the po...