SIDE MEETING

SE034

Design for Healthy Cities

Meeting Organizer

The Lancet

Tsinghua University

Contact Person : Peng Gong, penggong@tsinghua.edu.cn

30 January 2019
14:00 - 17:30 hrs.
Venue : Lotus Suite 3

Open to All Participants

BACKGROUND :

One recommendation from the Tsinghua-Lancet healthy cities in China commission report is to promote healthy city development by improving current practices in urban design, construction, and management. This requires the participation of the whole society.

OBJECTIVES :

Bring together specialists in the fields of urban design, construction, and management, as well as health professionals and administrators to exchange best practices on how to motivate mayors, business leaders, and the general public to join forces to improve urban health, particularly to combat NCDs in cities.