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ABSTRACT
Statement by the scientific committee* of the International Science Council’s Programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing, on critical elements of urban health action in response to the epidemic.
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*Authors/Members of the scientific committee in alphabetical order
Bojie Fu, Faculty of Geographical Science at Beijing Normal University, China.
Celine Rozenblat, IGD – Geopolis, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Franz W. Gatzweiler, International Science Council Programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China (corresponding author).
Huey-Jen Jenny Su, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Isaac Luginaah, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Jason Corburn, Institute of Urban & Regional Development, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Jo Ivey Boufford, International Society for Urban Health, NY, US.
Juan Vela Valdés, former minister of higher education and professor at the National School of Public Health, Cuba
Nguendo Yongsi H. Blaise, Institute Population Studies, University of Yaounde II, Cameroon.
Philippa Howden-Chapman (Chair), Department of Public Health, University of Otago, New Zealand.
R.B. Singh, Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, India.
Rachel Cooper, Lancaster University, UK.
Tolullah Oni, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Yong Guan Zhu, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China.
Notes
1. Despite expert knowledge and big data, it is not entirely possible to predict exactly how urban development will affect the health of a city’s population and how lethal an infectious disease like the novel coronavirus, will be.
Additional information
Notes on contributors
Franz Gatzweiler
Dr. Franz Gatzweiler is professor at the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Director of the International Science Council’s global interdisciplinary science programme on “Urban Health and Wellbeing: a Systems Approach”. He studied Agricultural Economics at the University of Bonn and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany. His doctorate research was on the ‘Economic Value of Nature’. He received grants from major German and International foundations for research on managing forest landscapes, biodiversity, poverty and marginality in Subsaharan Africa and South Asia. He is external affiliated faculty of the Ostrom Workshop.
Bojie Fu
Prof. Bojie Fu, is Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences. He is distinguished Professor and Chair of Steering Committee of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a physical geographer and landscape ecologist, mainly engaged in landscape ecology and ecosystem services. He has made systematic innovation achievements in land use structure and ecological process, landscape ecology and ecosystem services, and promoted the development of landscape ecology in China. He has published over 500 articles and 12 books on ecosystem services, landscape ecology, land use, ecological restoration, and eco-hydrology.
Celine Rozenblat
Celine Rozenblat, is professor of Urban Geography at the University of Lausanne and president of the urban commission of the International Geographical Union (IGU). She studies the evolution urban systems inside and between cities and in the complexity of this multi-level system, how does the multi-level perspective highlight some resilience properties? The methodologies derived from complex systems sciences bring new forms of intelligibility to worldwide urban dynamics. She studies systems of cities at European and world scales, with large comparative urban data, mapping and visualizing networks.
Huey-Jen Jenny Su
Dr. Huey-Jen Jenny Su is currently a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Health at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. Her research efforts have primarily focused on the topic of air pollution related health effects, with a particular emphasis on the rising global concerns with airborne microbial hazards. She was also an expert member of the committee that prepared the World Health Organization’s report concerning guidelines for biological agents in the indoor environment. Dr. Su was honored by her alma mater with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health’s 2017 Leadership Award in Public Health Practice.
Isaac Luginaah
Dr. Isaac Luginaah is Health/Medical Geographer in the Department of Geography, the University of Western Ontario. His research interest aims to improve our understanding of the broad determinants of population health and on environment and health linkages. He is a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.
Jason Corburn
Jason Corburn is a Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and School of Public Health. He directs the Institute of Urban and Regional Development and the Center for Global Healthy Cities at UC Berkeley. He also coordinates the joint Master of City Planning (MCP) and Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the links between environmental health and social justice in cities, notions of expertise in science-based policy making, and the role of local knowledge in addressing environmental and public health problems.
Jo Ivey Boufford
Jo Ivey Boufford, MD is a Clinical Professor of Global Health at New York University School of Global Public Health and Immediate Past-President of The International Society for Urban Health (ISUH).
Juan Vela Valdes
Juan Vela Valdes Medical Doctor from University of Habana, Cuba. Bachelor of Social Sciences. Master in Medical Education. Specialist first and second degree in Organization and Management of Public Health. PhD in Health Sciences. Full Professor of Public Health at University of Medical Sciences of Habana and at National School of Public Health, Cuba. Emeritus Professor. Doctor Honoris Causa from National University of Engineering, Nicaragua, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA, and University of Camaguey, Cuba. Member of Board of United Nations University (UNU) 2001-2007. President of Union of Universities of Latin America and Caribbean. 2004-2006.
Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi
Prof. Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi (B.ed, Msc, PhD) is a geographer and academic, specialising in health geography. He is Professor of Urban Health at IFORD-University of Yaoundé II, and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Health Sciences - Catholic University of Central Africa in Cameroon. His broad area of research interest includes environmental health, population health and Urban health.
Philippa Howden-Chapman
Philippa Howden-Chapman sesquicentennial distinguished professor of public health at the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, is co-director of He Kāinga Oranga/ Housing and Health Research Programme and director of the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities. She has conducted a number of randomised community housing trials in partnership with local communities, which have had a major influence on housing, health and energy policy. She was chair of the WHO Housing and Health Guideline Development Group and currently chair of the ISC Scientific Committee for Health & Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: a systems approach.
R. B. Singh
Dr. R. B. Singh, is Professor since 1996 and Head Retd. in the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi-7, India. Earlier served as UGC Research Scientist-C/Professor (1996-2002), UGC Research Scientist-B/Reader (1988-1996) and Lecturer (1985-1988); Coordinator UGC-SAP-DRS III and Head, Department of Geography during 2013-2016 and 2019-20. Prof. Singh got elected as first Indian and second Asian secretary General and Treasurer of the International Geographical Union for 2018-22. Dr. Singh is presently Chair, Research Council, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, Government of India. He is Member Vision India 2035, NITI Aayog, highest policy institution of India.
Rachel Cooper
Rachel Cooper OBE is Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University. Her research interests cover design management and policy across all sectors of industry, with a specific interest in design for wellbeing. She has published extensively on these topics, including books ‘Designing Sustainable Cities’, ‘The Handbook of Wellbeing and the Environment’ and ‘Living in Digital Worlds’. Professor Cooper was a Lead Expert for the UK Government Foresight programme on the Future of Cities (2013-2016), was on the Academy of Medical Sciences Working group addressing ‘The Health of the Public 2040’ (2015-16) and is currently a Chair of the UK Prevention Research Partnership, Expert Advisory Group.
Tolullah Oni
Tolullah Oni is co-lead, Global Diet and Activity Research Group, University of Cambridge; Honorary Associate Professor, University of Cape Town leading the Research Initiative for Cities Health and Equity (RICHE|Africa). A Public Health Physician and urban epidemiologist, her research supports a coordinated approach between science, policy and societal role players, identifying creative strategies to address complex urban population health challenges in rapidly growing cities globally. Profiled in the Lancet journal (2016), Science magazine (2018), and the British Medical Journal (2019), she is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Yong-Guan Zhu
Dr. Yong-Guan Zhu,elected member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor of biogeochemistry and environmental soil science in the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a leader in taking multi-scale and multi-disciplinary approaches to soil and environmental problems. He served as a member of Standing Advisory Group for Nuclear Application, International Atomic Energy Agency and is the recipient of many merit awards, among them TWAS Science Award for Agricultural Science 2013, National Natural Science Award 2009. Professor Zhu has published over 300 papers and was selected as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (2016-2019).