ICUH2016 - San Francisco
Conference Themes
ISUH and AAG Joint Symposium
April 1-2, 2016
"Geography & Health"
- Spatializing Health: Geography, GI Science and Urban Health
- Urban Health – Health-Geography for Sustainable Urban Development
- Geography & Urban Health: Collaborating to Advance Sustainable Urban Transitions
13th International Conference on Urban Health
April 3-4, 2016
"Place & Health"
- Global Initiatives Advancing Urban Health
- Placed Based Actions to Prevent Disease and Promote Health in Cities
- Lessons Learned from LMICS for Advancing a Culture of Health in the US
- Evidence from Action in Policy and Programs for Urban Health
Conference Materials
Downloadable Materials
- Conference Overview
- Abstracts
- April 1-2: Geography & Urban Health
- April 3-4: Place & Health
- Speakers
- WHO Executive Summary
The International Society on Urban Health and the American Association of Geographers collaborated on a Symposium on Geography and Urban Health. The sessions highlighted cross-disciplinary approaches for enhancing collaboration in team science, technology transfer, designs for urban health, and advancing global urban health policy and programs.

Video Highlights
Joint ISUH-AAG Welcome Plenary
SPEAKERS:
Douglas Richardson, Executive Director, American Association of Geographers; Shamim Hayder Talukder, President, International Society for Urban Health. Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Eminence; Jo Ivey Boufford, President, The New York Academy of Medicine; Andy Haines, Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Chair, The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health; Mei-Po Kwan, Professor, Geography & Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Alex Ross, Director, World Health Organization Centre for Health Development, Kobe, Japan
ICUH2016 Welcome Plenary
SPEAKERS:
Shamim Hayder Talukder, President, International Society for Urban Health Founder. Chief Executive Officer, Eminence; David Vlahov, Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco. Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Urban Health; A.E. Md. Muhiuddin Osmani, Joint Chief, Planning, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh; Jose Gabriel Siri, Research Fellow, United Nations University (UNU); Jo Ivey Boufford, President, The New York Academy of Medicine
SPONSOR REMARKS:
Ann Aerts, Head of the Novartis Foundation; Tracy Orleans, Senior Scientist, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
ICUH2016 Plenary - Global Ideas for US Solutions to Advance a Culture of Health
CHAIR:
Tracy Orleans, Senior Scientist, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
PANELISTS:
Olga L. Sarmiento, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes; Shamim Hayder Talukder, President, International Society for Urban Health. Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Eminence; Sandra J. Winter, Director, Wellness Living Laboratory/Research Associate, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine; Rajesh Anandan, Senior Vice President UNICEF Ventures, Co-creator UNICEF Kid Power, Co-founder ULTRA Testing; Isabella Aboderin, Senior Research Scientist and Head, Program on Aging and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, African Population Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya
DISCUSSANT:
Benjamin K. Chu, Executive Vice President, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan, Inc., Group President, Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Georgia Regions. President, Kaiser Permanente Southern California