Healthy Urban Childhoods 2019
We thank our delegates for making Healthy Urban Childhoods into such a success. The conversation continues on twitter, hashtags #UaHS19 and #healthyurbanchildhoods.
The Summit will support the work that takes place on global and national levels, with a special focus on improving knowledge and changing behaviours around antibiotic resistance.
Healthy Urban Childhoods will focus on how to strengthen the child perspective in urban planning to create healthier and more inclusive cities for children. The two-day summit takes place 8-9 October at Uppsala Castle, in Uppsala, Sweden.
Our goal is to provide an arena that could be truly helpful in development of input for interventions based on what we indeed know about child-friendly city planning, well-functioning urban playscapes, the health situation among children and the key factors that could generate physical literacy. We also must learn to from listening to children’s own knowledge about what characterizes suitable and attractive urban environments that influence their learning, joy, and pleasure.
The plenary presentations are available to watch online
View the plenary presentations from Uppsala Health Summit 2019
Preconference Videos for Healthy Urban Childhoods
As part of the preparation for the Healthy Urban Childhoods summit, we collaborated with the International School Grounds Alliance and with Save the Children Sweden to ask children and young people from around the world, and from Sweden, to share questions and messages on urban health for the delegates. The questions and messages are summarized in these videos.
The Meeting
Uppsala Health Summit is an international arena where delegates participate in solution-oriented dialogues in workshops, inspired by keynote presentations and debates in plenary sessions. Delegates come from different sectors and countries, and bring a diverse set of competencies to the tables, which creates the best conditions for enriching conversations and opportunities for establishing useful new relations.
Meet this Year's Program Committee Chair
"We need urban environments that are safe, challenging and accessible for children and young persons. Environments where they can move around independently, on their own terms. In many parts of the world, this is a major challenge when developing our cities, especially in already developed urban environments, or where competition for land is high", says Dr. Petter Åkerblom
Physical Activity as a Win for Health, Win for Society and Win for the Planet
It has been a busy year for keynote speaker Dr. Fiona Bull and her team following the High-Level Meeting in the UN General Assembly in 2018 where world leaders committed to bold actions to reduce NCD’s through a global action plan. To help countries progress, WHO is now updating and developing new guidelines for physical exercise across the lifespan. Why is this revision necessary?
