URBAN

HEALTH

COUNCIL

Community-led health justice programmes and living knowledges rooted in science for those living in oppressive urban environments.

How to Use this Website

This site has been designed as a self-learning tool for grassroots activists, advocacy organisations, and policy makers looking to centre health justice in their work.

Work is organised into a unique narrative arch used to help people learn specific health injustice topics.

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  • "I believe the process you have utilised to co-produce and co-design the obesity pamphlet is transformative in your working with doctors and lived experience experts, in this case marginalised racialised women who have experienced barriers to accessing healthcare. Your incorporation of an intersectional, ecological and trauma informed lens is a paradigm shift rooted in equity and a masterclass in how all healthcare literature should be produced."

    Dr. Farah Bede

    Tower Hamlets GP, Researcher with LSE/British Academy

  • “The style of research, workshops and reports coming from the Health Council is helping us add new depths and understandings in tackling the systemic challenges we take on at Global Action Plan.”

    BEN HUDSON

    Head of Impact at Global Action Plan

  • “Collective strategies towards health justice are only built when we have a space to organise together. The Urban Health Council is that very infrastructure necessary for a critical public health movement to align on its narratives, tactics and learnings.“

    GUPPI BOLA,

    Health Strategist, Researcher, Trainer and Organiser

Latest Work

Living Encyclopedia
People, Cities, Nature, and Healing
People, Cities, Nature, and Healing

A report on the role nature plays in cities and the varying pathways to health and healing. It centres non-western epistemologies as guiding tools for a better, more symbiotic living with Nature.

Invisible Nature: The Microbiome & Healing
Invisible Nature: The Microbiome & Healing

Given how important the environmental microbiome is both to human health and planetary regulation, it is important that we begin to include it in the context of cities and urbanisation.

Mapping & navigating British systems of power
Mapping & navigating British systems of power

This working board is for people who are not “professionals” within the legal, policy, or advocacy space (NGOs) but for community-led organisers looking to develop action plans and theory of change models. The MIRO board has a series of instructions after an introduction section that you can refer to at different times.

Learning Tools

  • PROGRAMMES

    All our programmes are led in peer-to-peer co-learning formats. We bring scientists, researchers, policy thinkers, and communities together to identify, research, and produce health justice solutions.

    VIEW PROGRAMMES

  • LIVING ENCYCLOPEDIA

    Our Living Encyclopedia is part of our work in creating Living Knowledges. Here you will find community led and scientifically rooted reportings that are in constant progression as injustice is an evolving phenomena.

    VIEW ENCYCLOPEDIA

  • BIOLOGICAL INEQUITIES INDEX

    Centric Lab partnered with CGG, a global geoscience technology company, to create a Biological Inequities Index of Great Britain.

    A team of geospatial data scientists and neuroscientists have developed the index as a way to communicate the environmental trends that influence our health.

    VIEW THE INDEX

  • INSPIRATION & IDEAS

    Healing Futures requires an ecosystem committed to health. Here are various examples of community led initiatives that are helping elevate and support Public Health.

    VIEW INSPIRATION SECTION

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