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.
Latest news
Welcome Professor Oluwole Daramola
We welcome Professor Oluwole Daramola, Africa Oxford (AfOx) Visiting Fellow 2025/26 to GCHU. Professor Oluwole Philip Daramola is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where he currently serves as Head of Department. His research work focuses on advancing sustainable urban development in the Global South through policy-relevant, empirically grounded research. His scholarship addresses critical urban challenges such as water supply and sanitation, environmental health, urban governance, disaster resilience, and infrastructure deficits in Nigerian cities.
"Can the Arts Heal?" Video available soon
GCHU public seminar was held on April 29th, on the topic "Can the arts heal?". Growing evidence suggests that the arts can improve our wellbeing. Many propose that arts have the potential to bring communities together, bridge division, and enrich everyday lives. The four short presentations explored how participation in arts and culture can support health and well-being, how arts can be used to engage clinicians with difficult conversations, and the enduring disparities in access to arts and culture. If you missed the seminar, please follow this page, the video will be available soon.
Upcoming GCHU Hybrid Seminar- 11th May
Join our next hybrid seminar on " Rethinking healthy cities – To what extent can urban health be designed? " on May 11th at the Kellogg College and online. This seminar will draw on empirical research in urban geography spanning housing, urban form, mobility, liveability and urban nature to examine how urban health is shaped through relationships across scales between people, places, and the more-than-human. The seminar will highlight tensions and uneven outcomes that emerge across these domains.
Speaker: Dr Mirjam Schindler, Global Visiting Research Associate at GCHU
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.