URBAN
HEALTH
COUNCIL
Community-led health justice programmes and living knowledges rooted in science for those living in oppressive urban environments.
Programmes
All our programmes are led in peer-to-peer co-learning formats. We bring scientists, researchrs, policy thinkers, and communities together to identify, research, and produce health justice solutions.
Community Health Impact Assessment
Developing community-led Health Impact Assessments, in order to create autonomy, dignity, and health at a neighbourhood scale.
Health Justice & Healing: Co-learning Programme For Healthcare Workers
Designed to develop health practitioners’ analysis and practice of health justice within the medical industrial complex.
Indigenous Health Justice
Indigenous and Land based cultures are under threat by the lack of systemic action to the dysregulation of our planetary ecosystems and by the continual expansion of capitalism and imperialism. This programme focuses on the various Imaginations and Knowledges Land-Kinned Peoples bring to environmental and health justice.
Trans & Gender Non-Binary Healing Practices
We are creating the time and space for a lived-experience led programme exploring and co-designing what do Trans & Gender Non-Binary communities need from the healthcare system, what would it look like holistically and communally? What would the programme look like and how will it fill knowledge gaps surrounding Trans & GNB identities - both scientifically, and from a lived experience, with a focus on racialised identities?
The Peoples Obesity Health Justice Movement
This work aims to demonstrate the harm of the dominant, individualised, narrative of obesity. We present an alternative understanding that views obesity through a neuro-epidemiological, environmental and sociopolitical lens. This serves as an avenue for people who are experiencing obesity to understand their disease and explore potential methods of self-care, self-advocacy and safeguarding.
The Encyclopedia
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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
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“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
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“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
