Cities for Global Health
https://www.citiesforglobalhealth.org/
FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCES TO RETHINK OUR CITIES FOLLOWING THE PANDEMIC
i.e. we've had a fairly normal year of winter respiratory deaths, but with a burst of elderly people sent to a slightly premature death as hospitals were emptied during April,[average age of "covid death" about normal life expectancy] and now cities are being reimagined because of that....We share the revitalisation and reinvention initiatives started by cities in this new era brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
BMJ October 3 2018
Cities for global health ****
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note the caveats.CCBY Open access
Analysis
Cities for global health
BMJ 2018; 363 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k3794 (Published 03 October 2018)
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Smart cities and emerging economies and technologies
Advances in sensing, computing, and communication technologies are creating unprecedented opportunities, as well as challenges, to improving urban health and reducing inequalities. Examples include the use of digital footprints for tracking disease and mobile phones for health information and alerts; distributed sensor technologies to detect water and air pollution, mould, traffic flows and crashes, and crime; better monitoring of, and response to, health of newborns and elderly people through personalised sensing; better nutrition through online shopping and home delivery; and more active or more efficient transportation through bicycle and car sharing systems and eventually autonomous vehicles. Such technologies also have the potential to worsen health and widen inequalities. Sharing systems like Airbnb may be affecting the already limited housing supply in cities, and the gig economy may be worsening social inequalities by reducing wages and job security.4346 Home delivery of goods and services and diversion of traffic to reduce congestion could increase air pollution and the risk of traffic related injuries in residential areas, and reliance on online shopping may increase social isolation. Individual cities cannot stop such trends but will need to carefully monitor their penetration and impact and be prepared to intervene through agile legislative, regulatory, and fiscal policies to maximise benefits and minimise harms, especially in terms of inequalities.
The paper has an interesting graphic
Note how one of the authors [from Imperial College....] Yvonne Doyle was appointed in 2019 as Medical Director and Director of Health Protection for Public Health England.
She has acted as an adviser to the WHO on healthy cities and continues to take a research interest in urban health and the environment. In 2016 Yvonne was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath for services to public health.
https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk ... nne-doyle/
Doyle has attended some SAGE meetings.
Another co-author, Gabriel Leung of Hong Kong predicted coronavirus would spread to 60-80 percent of the global population
Feb 11 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... population
Leung – one of the world’s experts on coronavirus epidemics, who played a major role in the Sars outbreak in 2002-03 – works closely with other leading scientists such as counterparts at Imperial College London and Oxford University.
At the end of January, he warned in a paper in the Lancet that outbreaks were likely to be “growing exponentially” in cities in China, lagging just one to two weeks behind Wuhan.
METROPOLIS
CITIES FOR GLOBAL HEALTH **** where have we seen that before?
Collective Responses to Global Health Emergencies
https://www.metropolis.org/news/cities-global-health
To connect political leaders, policy makers and practitioners worldwide in order to advocate metropolitan interests and improve the performance of metropolises in addressing local and global challenges.
Engaged metropolitan governance is critical to facing the immensity of contemporary urban challenges. Therefore, Metropolis mission will be achieved by a set of means to co-create caring sustainable cities characterized by engaged metropolitan governance
Member cities are scattered except for USA, Japan, Australia and New Zealand
https://www.metropolis.org/members
but include Manchester UK and Montreal and Toronto in Canada
Metropolis is hosting Smart City Live 17-18 November 2020
https://www.metropolis.org/agenda/smart-city-live-2020
which
will consist of a full-day, broadcast television show on day one, with interviews, debates, and success stories focusing on how COVID-19 has impacted cities and is redefining citizens normality,
Smart City Live aims to be the place to collectivize urban power, to increase the strength of cities, to identify business opportunities, to establish partnerships and contribute to enacting common policies. A place to share research, best practices and potential common solutions, achieved through effective collaboration.