OxHA is increasingly involved in raising awareness around the importance of designing the urban environment for health.
Meetings on urban design attended by OxHA
Forum on Healthy and Sustainable Cities, co-hosted by OxHA and Monday Morning, held at Macquarie University, Sydney, 29 February 2008
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- Speakers at the Forum included Jean-Christophe Fotso (International Society for Urban Health), Sue Holliday (Planning Institute of Australia), Ida Strand (Monday Morning) and Tony Capon and Katy Cooper (OxHA).
OxHA seminar on 'Healthy and sustainable communities', held at the University of Sydney, 26 July 2007
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- Speakers included Susan Thompson (UNSW), Stuart Hodgson and Georgia Vitale (Arup) Sarah Thackway (NSW Health Dept) and Colin James (University of Sydney), and it was chaired by Prof. Stephen Leeder.
Natural England conference on 'Health and the natural environment', held at Lord's Cricket Ground, 18 June 2007
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- Speakers included Christine Hancock (OxHA), Caroline Flint (Minister for Public Health), Howard Frumkin (CDC) and William Bird (Natural England).
- For a blog of the event on 3FOUR50.com, click here >>
Joint OxHA/WSP Environmental event on 'Healthy Planning', held at RIBA, London, 7 March 2007
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- Presentations by Christine Hancock (OxHA), Colin Fudge (WHO Collaborating Centre on Healthy Cities, UWE), Ben Cave (Ben Cave Associates), Mark Elton (WSP Environmental)
Commission on the Built Environment event, 'Fat cities: can the design of the built environment help solve the obesity crisis?', held at CABE, 30 October 2006
- Edge debate No. 30
- Speakers: Christine Hancock (OxHA), Nick Cavill (Cavill Associates), Tim Chapman (NHS London Healthy Urban Development Unit)