ICUH2022 - Valencia, Spain
Conference Themes
18th International Conference on Urban Health
October 24-27, 2022
The overall theme for ICUH 2022 was Growing Our Global Community. Driving Action. Ensuring Equity. Individual themes included the following:
Conference Materials
Program
During this year’s conference, we connected all global stakeholders working within the urban health realm to drive action and ensure equity across cities and regions.
We explored how urban health can connect with other urban and global agendas, such as climate change, planetary health and sustainable development. We explored models for engagement and empowerment, prioritizing and defining equity across communities, how biodiversity and natural elements can play a role in healthy urban futures, and ways to reduce climate impacts for all.
List of Plenary Speakers & Chairs
Sr. Joan Ribó
Chair
Mayor, City of Valencia
Sra. Maimunah Mohd Sharif
Speaker
Director, UN-Habitat
Sra. Laura Soto
Speaker
Secretary of Bioclimatic Architecture and Sustainable Energy, Government of Valencia
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Speaker
Director General World Health Oganization
Dr. Carlos Dora
Chair
President, International Society of Urban Health
Dr. Carlos Dora
Chair
President, International Society of Urban Health
Dr. Madeleine Thomson
Speaker
Head of Climate Impacts & Adaptation, Wellcome Trust
Nina Renshaw
Speaker
Head of Health, Clean Air Fund
Dr. Maria Neira
Speaker
Director, Department of Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization (WHO)
Joanna Masic
Speaker
Global Lead for Sustainable City Infrastructure and Services, The World Bank
Giselle Sebag
Chair
Executive Director, International Society for Urban Health
Dr. Nathalie Röbbel
Speaker
Head of Urban Health, World Health Organization (WHO)
Dr. David J. Erickson
Speaker
Senior Vice President, Head of Outreach & Education, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Rowena Estwick
Speaker
National and International Partnerships Manager. Impact on Urban Health
Louise Vogel Kielgast
Speaker
Associate, Gehl Architects
Sarah Skenazy
Speaker
Clinical Specialist, Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health, Google Health
Dr. Tolullah Oni
Chair
Clinical Director of Research, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
Dr. Ann Aerts
Speaker
Head, Novartis Foundation
Dr. Audrey de Nazelle
Speaker
Senior Lecturer at the Centre of Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, Co-chair of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Policy Committee, Chair & Founder of Imperial’s Network of Excellence on Air Quality
Dr. Shamim Hayder Talukder
Speaker
Chief Executive Officer Eminence Associates for Social Development (EASD) Bangladesh & Member Secretary Bangladesh Urban Health Network (BUHN)
Dr. Ricardo Leite
Speaker
Member of the Portuguese National Parliament (Lisbon Electoral District)
Dr. Roel Vermeulen
Speaker
Professor, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University and Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands
Dr. Ana V. Diez Roux
Chair
Dean at Dornsife School of Public Health & Director at the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University
Dr. Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Speaker
Director, Urban Planning, Environment and Health Initiative & the Air Pollution and Urban Environment Research Program at ISGlobal
Susanna Hausmann
Speaker
Chief Program Officer, Fondation Botnar
Louise Francis
Speaker
Managing Director, Mapping for Change
Dr. Carme Borrell
Speaker
Director, Public Health Agency of Barcelona
Ethan Kent
Speaker
Executive Director, PlacemakingX
Dr. Thiago Hérick de Sá
Chair
Age-friendly Environments, Technical Officer, World Health Organization (WHO)
Somsook Boonyabancha
Speaker
Chairperson, Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, Chairperson Baan Mankong Housing Committee Thailand
Sharon Roerty
Speaker
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Dr. Billie Giles-Corti
Speaker
Distinguished Professor and Vice Chancellor Professorial Fellow
Dr. Matilda Bernadette King
Speaker
The Medical Superintendent, Macauley Street Government Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Erion Veliaj
Speaker
Mayor, City of Tirana
Paul Supawanich
Speaker
Director of Programmes, Global Designing Cities Initiative
Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford
Chair
Clinical Professor of Global Health, New York University School of Global Public Health & Chair of the Board, International Society for Urban Health
Jacqueline Weekers
Speaker
Director, Migration Health Division, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Dr. Marc Ho
Speaker
Director, Contact Tracing and Epidemiology Centre, Ministry of Health, Singapore
Vicky Hobart
Speaker
GLA Group Director of Public Health and Deputy Statutory Adviser, Greater London Authority and Office of Health Improvement and Disparities
Claudia Pizarro Peña
Speaker
Mayor, La Pintana, Santiago, Chile
Video Highlights
ICUH2022 OVERVIEW
Through its annual International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH) and program activities, the ISUH serves as a platform for interdisciplinary academic researchers and educators, practitioners and policymakers from multiple sectors in government and the private sector.
ABOUT VALENCIA
With a privileged location by the Mediterranean Sea, Spain’s third largest city offers a mild, sunny climate and plenty of green spaces to exercise or simply enjoy life al fresco. ICUH 2022 included a lovely guided bike tour and visit to the Parque Natural de la Albufera nature reserve.
Venues
Botanical Garden of the Univ. of Valencia
EL BOTÁNICO: A PLACE OF SCIENCE, CULTURE AND NATURE
The Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia is a living museum located in the historical centre of the city, which is open to the public and aims to let people connect with the plant world by fostering study, teaching, dissemination and conservation, as well as its sustainable use. Maps >
Petxina Sports and Cultural Complex
La Petxina is currently a sports and cultural complex, located in the Paseo de la Petxina in Valencia. The building is from 1895, developed by the Valencian architect Luis Ferreres Soler. It is considered his most important work and a benchmark of Valencian civil architecture between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The building occupies a total area of 12,875 square meters and originally served as a slaughterhouse. Maps >
