Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities

A picture is worth a thousand data points                                                        

Finding correlations between objects detected in Street View images and socio-economic outcomes in an urban environment. Wandering through the streets of London, we often have quite a good intuition for whether a certain part of the city...

Green schools, green cities, healthy generations                                        

My most treasured memories of childhood go back to the times my friends and I played in our backyards or on our streets. During the summer, we played outdoors every single day. We made up our plays, rode our bikes, played hopscotch, and ...

Presenting Pathways research at the Planetary Health Alliance Conference, Stanford, USA

By Abosede Sarah Alli and Jacob Doku Tetteh The 2019 Planetary Health Alliance (PHA) Annual Meeting held at Stanford University, California, USA brought together about 500 participants from more than 40 countries united by a common goal ...

A Tale of Two Cities: Two Urban Health Projects in Accra, Ghana and Nairobi, Kenya

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                                                                                  

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                                                                                            

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                                                                                            

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...

Boosting air and noise pollution monitoring in sub-Saharan African cities

“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 ...

AI and Google street view images help monitor living conditions in cities.

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...