The Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation (GCHU) at Kellogg College seeks to make urban centres environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable, and to provide an environment that supports and sustains health and wellbeing.
Our interdisciplinary approach embraces sustainable urban development and evidence-based healthcare to undertake research, education and foster collaboration in these disciplines.
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“Data centres: How bad can they really be?” In this blog, GCHU intern, Ronan Wilkinson, examines the environmental and public-health impacts of data centres, particularly their growing energy and water demands driven by the rapid development of AI, while noting that economic benefits such as jobs may be limited. The impact varies significantly depending on where data centres are located and how their electricity and cooling needs are met. Overall, the blog argues that stronger regulations need to be in place to limit the harm caused by data centres on communities.
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A recent blog by GCHU intern, Ava Peralta on “Exploring the significance of cross-industry collaboration when building new towns” argues that cross-industry collaboration is essential for creating new towns that are just, sustainable, and responsive to diverse needs. However, the transformative potential of cross-industry collaboration is limited not only by practical and behavioural challenges, but also by a shallow diversity of ontological perspectives. The blog concludes that such collaboration must genuinely embrace different worldviews if new towns are to enable meaningful urban transformation.
Upcoming GCHU Public Seminar- 14th October
Join our next public seminar on " How can communities respond to emergencies?" This seminar brings speakers together from the public, private and third sectors in order to explore their experiences of how communities in the UK and internationally have responded to emergencies – whether caused by the environment, infectious disease, conflicts, terrorism, accidents or negligence, for example.
Speakers: Jeannie Barr, Richard Blewitt, Carol MacKay, Tony Thompson
GCHU Public Seminars
The Centre hosts a series of seminars – open to the public – throughout the year. These lively discussions bring together a panel of speakers to address contemporary, and often controversial, issues in healthcare and urbanisation.