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Following the launch of our Healthy neighbourhoods working together report, we put forward some of the key actions we can all take to improve collaboration with health. Drawing on expert insight from our report launch speakers, we outline useful frameworks and ideas we can all use.
Our new report offers practical insights and research on how the built environment and health sectors can collaborate more effectively to improve health outcomes for communities in London and beyond.
We explore how neighbourhood scale projects are making a difference to health in Islington as part of our Health Neighbourhoods: working together programme.
The opening webinar of FoL’s Healthy neighbourhoods: working together programme sought to highlight the most pressing issues between the built environment and health and promote more efficient collaboration, creative thinking and sharing of resources to have a bigger impact on health inequalities.
Healthy placemaking is an essential part of delivering age-friendly cities, but it requires robust cross-sector collaboration. Planning can improve public health by promoting active travel, enhancing air quality, delivering and protecting open space. Social isolation, a key issue for our ageing population, can be reduced by supporting social interaction in town … Read more
On 25th September, we visited Poplar to see how a market is being used to deliver regeneration programmes and hear about how it fits into current development plans for the area.
Our second Communities in Transition field trip of 2015 will be to Whitechapel on 28th May, to see how the healthcare and life sciences sector is driving development in the area and the wider relevance for London.
The final seminar in our Delivering Public Health series explored what stakeholders are doing to link food and health in their communities.
For our latest Communities in Transition visit, we joined Westway Trust to learn how it has transformed the space under the A40 motorway for the benefit of the local community.
We held the second event in our Delivering Public Health series on May 15th, which focused on the impact of poverty and inequality on increasing health outcomes at local level.
This May, we’re partnering with UCL’s Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities for three panel discussions focused on non-domestic retrofit.
Our new series of public health seminars kicked off with Embedding health in boroughs, focusing on new public health responsibilities, and the options available to deliver improvements.