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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We're pleased to announce that the video recording is now available for our first Public Seminar of Hilary Term, held on Wed 21st January. Click here to watch the recording.
Entitled “Can community-led planning make cities more adaptive and healthier?", it brought together three experts to explore the emergence of participatory (or people-led) approaches to decision-making through ‘citizen assemblies’ as a possible way of helping rebuild people’s trust in the urban planning process.
Congratulations to GCHU postdoc, Dr Hannah Grove, on being awarded Vivensa Foundation’s Academy Ignition Fund 2025/2026.
This project will bring together researchers, local government and community organisations, and older adults across Oxford to co-design the evidence base for a local Age-Friendly Environment strategy. It is a collaborative research project between the University of Oxford, led by Dr Hannah Grove and Co-Investigators Dr Karla Zimpel-Leal and Rhonda Riachi from the Healthy Ageing and Care (HAC) network at Oxford Brookes University.
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.