Age-Friendly Public Spaces in African Cities: ISUH Africa Community of Practice Webinar Report
The Africa Community of Practice of the International Society for Urban Health hosted another webinar, on “Age-friendly Public Spaces in African Cities: Opportunities and Challenges”. This is part of the Urban Health in Africa Networking and Webinar Series held on 22nd June 2023. The speakers, Thiago Hérick de Sá and Ayanda Roji, shared their experiences […]
Urban Health Data in Africa and Latin America: Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities – ISUH Community of Practice Webinar Report
Hosted by the Africa Community of Practice of the International Society for Urban Health, the webinar “Urban Health Data in Africa and Latin America: Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities”, is part of the Urban Health in Africa Webinar Series and was held on 23rd February 2023. The speakers shared their experiences with collecting health data in […]
Urban Health Data in Africa and Latin America: Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities -ISUH Africa Community of Practice webinar
Hosted by the Africa Community of Practice of the International Society for Urban Health, the webinar “Urban Health Data in Africa and Latin America: Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities”, is part of the Urban Health in Africa Webinar Series and will be held on 23rd February 2023. The speakers will share their experience with collecting health […]
Appropriation of public space and urban infrastructure for leisure physical activity (ALPhA) -Second Lagos and Yaoundé stakeholder workshop reports
The research project “Informal Appropriation of Public Space for Leisure Physical Activity in Lagos and Yaoundé (ALPhA)”, led by the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the Universities of Lagos and Yaoundé, aims to re-imagine urban space for healthy, safe leisure physical activity in Lagos, Nigeria, and Yaoundé, Cameroon. As part of this endeavour, following […]
Urban Health Governance -ISUH Africa Community of Practice webinar report
The second webinar hosted by the Africa Community of Practice of the ISUH on the 28th of April 2022 centered around “Urban Health Governance”. This was a sequel to the inaugural webinar which is part of the Urban Health in Africa Webinar Series. The speakers included actors from local government, UN-Habitat and research organizations who […]
The other pandemic: social media engagement around non-communicable disease preventive behaviours during Nigeria’s COVID-19 lockdowns
This article was first published on Cities & Health Abstract Given the complexity of global health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, it is typical for crisis-focused interventions to have a multiplicity of impacts. Some of these impacts may yield positive or negative externalities for health priorities that do not have the same perceived urgency. […]
Urban Health Governance -ISUH Africa Community of Practice webinar
Hosted by the Africa Community of Practice of the International Society for Urban Health, the webinar, centred around “Urban Health Governance”, is part of the Urban Health in Africa Webinar Series and will be held on 28th April 2022. The speakers will include actors from local government, UN-Habitat and research organisations who will share their […]
Pairing Academia and Policy for Transdisciplinary Research in Africa – Inaugural webinar of the ISUH Africa Community of Practice
The inaugural webinar of the Africa Community of Practice of the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) – “Pairing academia and policy for transdisciplinary research in Africa” – was held on the 2nd December 2021. The event brought together over 30 scholars, government and non-government policy actors, representing 18 countries across the African continent to […]
A Systematic Review Protocol of Opportunities for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention via Public Space Initiatives in African Cities
This article was first published onInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Abstract Public spaces have the potential to produce equitable improvements in population health. This mixed-methods systematic review aims to understand the components of, determinants, risks, and outcomes associated with public space initiatives in African cities. This study will include quantitative and qualitative […]
Appropriation of public space and urban infrastructure for leisure physical activity (ALPhA) — Lagos and Yaoundé stakeholder workshop reports
As part of the research project on Informal Appropriation of Public Space for Leisure Physical Activity in Lagos and Yaoundé, led by the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the Universities of Lagos and Yaoundé, the ALPhA research team hosted a first stakeholder workshop on the 14th September 2021 in Lagos and on the 21st […]
