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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“Planning for Health: Lessons from the New Towns.” This blog by GCHU intern, Grace Baldauf, explores the key lessons learned from the UK’s New Towns and highlights the need to plan for the long-term health and changing needs of communities. Whereas early new towns reflect many of the best practices that are today associated with positive health outcomes such as walkability, green spaces, and community building; later generations of new towns prioritised car usage, health became outranked by mass housing, individual choice, and economic development.
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A recent blog by GCHU intern, Greta Stone on “Imagined Community: is village life just a dream for people in modern towns and cities? explores how the social qualities of traditional village life such as sociability, community identity, walkability and shared spaces can inform the design of larger, modern neighbourhoods. It argues that while these principles can support healthy and resilient communities, modern developments should prioritise individual choice, shared ownership and democratic control rather than reproduce the hierarchical structures historically associated with village life.
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.