11th International Conference on Urban Health
About This Event
On the 4th - 7th March 2014 the city of Manchester, United Kingdom will play host to the 11th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH).
Manchester offers the perfect platform for such a high profile global conference offering both a rich public health history - Manchester was the birthplace of public health pioneer, Edwin Chadwick in 1800 - and a bright, exciting and vibrant future in terms of the innovation and opportunities for the city's residents, businesses, employers and visitors.
ICUH provides the ideal forum for knowledge exchange for urban health stakeholders attracting multidisciplinary scientists, practitioners, development partners and various national and regional senior policymakers from around the world. With the ultimate goal to mobilise and energise like-minded professionals, ICUH will address the effects of urbanisation and urban environments on the health of urban populations.
Workstream and programme topics will include:
- Blood Borne Viruses
- Addiction
- Health economics
- Environmental Urban Health
- Communicable dissease
- Non-communicable Diseases
- Mental Health
- Health equality and inequality
- Maternal & Child Health
- Healthy Aging
- Lifestyle - obesity & diabetes
- Humanitarian and conflict impact on health
- Healthy cities
- Health protection
- Tobacco control
- Personalised medicine & genomics
- Policy making and urban development