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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.
The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) has released the results of a survey examining the effect of its awareness campaign about the COVID-19 crisis, as part of a project supported by the Partnership for Healthy Cities.
Bloomberg Philanthropies' new COVID-19 Local Response Initiative emphasizes leadership in public health to save lives in regions facing the first wave of the pandemic.
In a third virtual session, more than 30 mayors and city leaders representing 49 cities joined a panel of their peers in Leading Through Crisis: Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America and Africa.
A new program from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ COVID-19 Local Response Initiative emphasizes public health leadership to save lives in regions facing first wave of pandemic.
Mayor Jan Vapaavuori of Helsinki, Finland, joined Kelly Larson of Bloomberg Philanthropies to discuss how the city is responding to COVID-19, how the Partnership for Healthy Cities is encouraging global collaboration between cities and what’s keeping mayors hopeful right now.
Supported by the Partnership for Healthy Cities COVID-19 Response Initiatives, the campaign is meant to educate, debunk false information and elicit behavioural change towards people living with COVID-19.
Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr and Dr. Kelly Henning of Bloomberg Philanthropies discuss the COVID-19 response, how global mayors are sharing information during the coronavirus crisis and what’s keeping mayors hopeful right now.
When Ebola exploded in West Africa in 2015, communities across the region worked together to contain the disease and learned firsthand the importance of acting early. Today, we face a new and devastating pandemic in COVID-19.
A new survey suggests nearly 7 in 10 respondents across Africa would have a problem accessing food and water during a two-week quarantine.
Mayor Jim Kenney announced a new partnership between Mural Arts Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, to be scaled up with support from the Partnership for Healthy Cities.