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Reimagining Health in Cities: Challenges and New Directions
Start Date: 9/5/2019Start Time: 8:00 AM
End Date: 9/6/2019End Time: 5:30 PM
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Event Description
Today’s cities face many challenges, including climate change, rising inequality, and health disparities. Yet urban environments offer optimum opportunities for the development of innovative programs and policies that can improve population health. The Drexel Urban Health Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to spark conversations and new ideas about how to turn evidence into action, share creative methods and solutions, and stimulate debate among participants from diverse perspectives and fields.
 
Topics Include:

  • Addressing urban health crises and disaster preparedness
  • Perspectives of urban health leaders
  • Place-based approaches to health
  • Innovations in data collection and analysis for research
  • The role of cities in creating changes in population health
  • Urban design and action strategies to improve health
  • Urbanization, migration and displacement

To register and find out more, click here!
Contact Information:
Name: Sarah Greer
Email: uhc@drexel.edu
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Location:
Drexel University
Dornsife School of Public Health
Nesbitt Hall
3215 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Audience:
  • Everyone

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