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The Partnership for Healthy Cities presents news, stories, case studies and accomplishments from cities in its global network, whose leaders have taken on the role of urban health champions.
Inside Freetown, Sierra Leone's markets, a new healthy food strategy is addressing rising rates of hypertension.
To celebrate National Health Day, the city of Bandung unveiled new smoke-free signage in four prominent locations.
The city of Santiago was recently selected to join the Partnership for Healthy Cities Policy Accelerator, an initiative that will support a cohort of cities in the creation and adoption of sound public health policies.
With the city's smoke-free regulation, Bandung Mayor Oded M Danial hopes that Bandung tourism will be cleaner without cigarette smoke in public places.
The Chicago Department of Public Health led the creation of a new ‘community site selection tool’ that brings together data on tree canopy, air quality, land surface temperatures, economic hardship, and other factors, with support from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Partnership for Healthy Cities.
Major General Khaled Abdel Aal, Governor of Cairo, held a meeting with Dr. Naima Al-Qusair, representative of the World Health Organization in Egypt on the sidelines of the World Cities Day conference, held in Luxor on October 30 and 31.
The city has since implemented a number of interventions with support from the Partnership for Healthy Cities, including new breathalyzer technology and checkpoint improvements.
At the national level, Peru has historically suffered from high rates of child obesity. In 2021, the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima’s local congress unanimously passed a ground breaking law to improve access to healthier food for children locally.
Superblocks are a leading urban design initiative aimed at reducing traffic, air and noise pollution.
In May 2021, the city of Bandung passed a law designating eight types of smoke-free areas, including places of worship and children's playgrounds.
Bogotá Mayor Claudia López has a message: the more cities join this work and the faster we act, the more lives we can save.