Description
Join us as we provide an opportunity to review some of the evidence that links health and the built environment.
We’ll cover the economic burden that ill health attributable to the environment poses for our society, and the degree to which factors linked to health can be incorporated into the planning and development process for urban spaces.
*Programme is subject to change.
agenda
building health into the urban environment: evidence and opportunities
9.30 am
Registration
10.00 am
Chair’s introduction
Dr Gabriel Scally, President, Epidemiology and Public Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine
10.15 am
Why we need healthy new towns: The importance of changing our approach
Sir Malcolm Grant, NHS England
10.45 am
Moving health concerns into new places
Howard Frumkin, Wellcome Trust
11.15 am
Discussion
11.30 am
Tea and coffee break
11.45 am
The state of the evidence: What we know, and don’t know, about the interaction of environment and health
Paul Pilkington and Judy Orme, University of the West of England
12.15 pm
The economic cost of getting it wrong, and the bonus of getting it right
Alistair Hunt and Eleanor Eaton, University of Bath
12.45 pm
Discussion
1.15 pm
Lunch
2.00 pm
Looking upstream: Are we getting our planning right or wrong?
2.30 pm
Getting cities to get development right for their future health
Andy Burnham, Greater Manchester
3.00 pm
Lessons from King’s Cross for major urban redevelopment
Richard Meier, Formerly Argent
3.20 pm
Talk title TBC
3.40 pm
Discussion
4.00 pm
Concluding remarks and close of meeting
Professor Gabriel Scally, President, Epidemiology and Public Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine