Impact on Urban Health

Thank you to all our partners for your inspiring work in 2023. It's only with your support that we can realise our vision of making cities healthier places for everyone. A message from our Executive Director, Peter Babudu:

🚚 What is freight? ❤️ How does it affect people’s health? 💰 How does it affect the economy? 🚅 And how can the Government modernise it? https://lnkd.in/enXgKx3n

Our hope for tomorrow's budget: 🥫 Support for companies to improve the nutritional profile of food 🎒 Funding for a child poverty strategy 🫁 Business incentives to improve air quality 💰 Ensuring the energy sector contributes to resolving problem debt https://lnkd.in/e43N3pMJ

Amersfoort is the first large Dutch city to fine people for using wood-burning fireplaces. 🪵🪓 Amersfoort is protecting residents from inhaling the harmful substances in wood smoke. "This is harmful to your neighbours, but also to yourself and to your housemates.” https://lnkd.in/g96iHeri

Great to hear Tony Blair Institute for Global Change call the Government to action on HGVs and LGVs. 🚛 A reminder of our policy recommendations to reduce pollution from freight: 📦 Centralised pick up & drop off points ⚖️ Govt Last Mile Task Force 🛣️ Road pricing incentives 🚲 Cargo bikes https://lnkd.in/eQTiyz6z

Great article by Joss MacDonald of The Food Foundation on the economic case for extending #freeschoolmeals: 🍏 https://lnkd.in/e-p7itMZ Our research showed clear social and economic benefits to investing in children’s health and extending #freeschoolmeals to all: 💚 https://lnkd.in/eGtet3ic

Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah of the Ella Roberta Foundation speaking to Kay Burley: 📏 “With Imperial College London, we have new monitors that measure World Health Organization levels of pollution. I want these at bus stops, hospitals, everywhere.” Read more about our work to support Awair monitors 👉 https://lnkd.in/eURWNHqA 🔥 Whatever we burn, we breathe. That’s why it’s great Walsall Council is thinking about protecting people from the air pollution caused by bonfires: https://lnkd.in/eSs572GA

We are sad to see the news of Professor Mark Ashworth’s passing. He led the multi-morbidity studies that formed the basis for our work on long-term health conditions. His findings have made a real-world difference: highlighting deep inequities in health that exist along ethnic, socio-economic, and gender lines. https://lnkd.in/ebAWUd9a We remember him as a kind, principled, and generous man, passionate about his work and his patients. Sending our condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues for their loss. https://lnkd.in/eiCTMQZR

Fantastic to see the work of our Children’s Mental Health Partner The Motherhood Group featured in the The Times 👏 https://lnkd.in/eqaWM6YV

National Geographic explores why strokes are on the rise: “Air pollution - both indoor and outdoor (from household burning of fossil fuels) - is responsible for about 30% of worldwide strokes”. https://lnkd.in/gwAjtJki