Engagement
Authors: 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...
This 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
January 25, 2022
By 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
November 2, 2021
The 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...
Access 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...
Enhancing walkability in Accra
August 20, 2021
Walking is universally considered as healthy and is a prerequisite of mobility: moving from one place to another often starts and finishes with a walk. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), walking is the most popular means o...
Accra! Accra! Accra! – The chorus of accessibility
July 27, 2021
The city of Accra The city of Accra, like most cities in developing countries, is a city with a constantly changing boundary driven by population growth, migration and urban sprawl. Over the years, the city of Accra has been referred to ...
In March 2021, researchers from 6 countries in the Pathways consortium came together to share on-going work related to health and socioeconomic inequalities across the project’s five study cities. While typically held in person, we mov...
Light for health
May 6, 2021
Today, our home environments have become more relevant than ever as we have all been forced to “stay at home” to reduce our interactions with one another, and consequently decrease disease transmission. As such, it has become even mo...
The equity of road pricing
April 14, 2021
Road pricing is increasingly being considered by cities as a strategy to manage congestion, meet climate targets, and support transport infrastructure. A handful of cities including Singapore, London, Stockholm, and Milan have already im...