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Drink Smart: Water consumption patterns in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area
BlogWritten by Jacob Tetteh, PhD Candidate Introduction The intake of potable drinking water is needed for the sustenance of all human life and existence, however, in 2020, 771 million people globally lacked even the basic drinking water ser...
Healthy Neighborhoods: The Vital Role of Infrastructure
BlogWritten by: Yuyang Zhang Urban population exceeded 55% of the world total in 2019 and continues to increase, making the impact of urban environments on human health a growing concern. Neighborhoods are the basic geographical unit of a ci...
Why accessibility matters: a case study of London
BlogWritten by: Abhilash Singh, PhD candidate About us: The Transport and Mobility group studies the influence of urban transportation, land use and services on health in an integrated manner. The emphasis is on how the combinations of locat...
Equitable access to essential services in metro Vancouver
BlogWritten by Avril Li (University of British Columbia) More than four billion people currently live in urban areas globally and that number is projected to increase to about two-thirds of global population by 2050, approximately seven bill...
Old Data New Tricks, New Data New Tricks: Pathways at ICUH 2022
BlogWritten by Alicia Cavanaugh (McGill University) and Ricky Nathvani (Imperial College London) In late October, the International Society for Urban Health hosted the 18th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH) in Valencia, Spain. ...
The complexities of the urban development: An insight into the policy dimensions
BlogAuthors: Sabrina Mustabin Jaigirdar, Zahidul Quayyum Dhaka City’s overall development programme and planning are complicated by its multiplicity of stakeholders and actors working on improving poor physical and social infrastructure (e.g...
Pathways to Equity at the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
BlogThis year, Pathways members Barbara Metzler (PhD student) and Sierra Clark (former PhD student) travelled to Athens to attend and present their research at the Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE,...
Why cities need to preserve green space: A case study of Dhaka city
BlogBy Khadiza Tul Kobra Nahin, Hasna Hena Sara, Zahidul Quayyum Human and nature are two inseparable entities that have interchangeable interactions at every level of life. The negative consequences of abandoning nature are increasingly bei...
Protecting the health of vulnerable city residents during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
BlogThe 19th century notion of cities as spectres of ill-health re-emerged early in the Covid-19 pandemic. The density of people in cities was thought of as synonymous with disease transmission, with urban hotspots emerging in many countries...
The water hunt: Unreliable water supply in low-income communities of Accra
BlogAccess to potable water supports life and improves well-being. However, household access to potable and uninterrupted drinking water supply continues to elude communities throughout Accra as well as its neighbouring towns. This commodity...