Webinar: Introduction to the Urban Burden of Disease Policy project

Date: June 29

This webinar by Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, coordinator of UBDPolicy, gave an introduction to this European project led by ISGlobal (Barcelona). UBDPolicy aims to improve the estimation of health impacts and socio-economic costs and/or benefits of environmental stressors, advance methodological approaches and foster their acceptance as common good practice for urban areas, to help strengthen evidence-based policy making at city, national and EU level. 

The project focuses on nearly 1,000 cities and environmental stressors including air pollution, noise, temperature/heat and lack of green space. UBD Policy will also include physical activity as a main determinant of health and examine the effects of gender and inequality in the impact estimations.

DATE: 29 June 2023