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Local government planners and public health officers can learn how to make best use of a new framework for creating healthy Local Plans in a free webinar on Monday 30 September. Co-hosted by the TRUUD research programme and the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), the hour-long session from 2pm will be an opportunity to… Read more
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Taking a systems approach for creating healthy urban places to Westminster Sarah Ayres, Professor of Public Policy and Governance, University of Bristol; Stephen Aldridge, Director for Analysis and Data, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; and Geoff Bates, Lecturer at the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath set out the next steps… Read more
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Expert voices from planning, health, government and consultants share their insights of using Health Impact Assessments as a force for good to create healthier new communities. In a series of nine films from the TRUUD research programme, participants look at their own experiences of embedding requirements for Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) in their local plans… Read more
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Health for development decision making: the role of Health Impact Assessment Ed Kirton-Darling from our law intervention team, sets out what we’ve learnt about the use and effectiveness of Health Impact Assessments with tips for getting it right at a local plan level. Moving away from the tick-box How can we help to… Read more
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Let’s talk about health… Our law lead, John Coggon, highlights why TRUUD interventions for better, fairer health require us to look carefully at definitions of health and its determinants. To get anywhere, we need to get beyond simplistic agreement that ‘health matters’ Health matters. On that, at least most people will agree. But… Read more
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Oxford Properties, a leading global real estate investor, developer and manager, is partnering with the TRUUD research programme to help improve the way health is integrated into planning urban places. Based at the University of Bristol, and with researchers across six different universities, TRUUD (Tackling the Root causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development) is a… Read more
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Leading build to rent developer, Dandara Living is working with the TRUUD research programme to help improve the way health is considered and delivered for urban places. Based at the University of Bristol, and with researchers across six different universities, TRUUD (Tackling the Root causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development) is a £10 million research… Read more
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A systems approach to local spatial planning TRUUD PhD candidate Michael Chang is examining the local planning system to try and solve the mystery of why we create unhealthy living environments, even though we have known about the link between environment and health for many years. We asked Michael about his research and how he… Read more
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Federated Hermes Real Estate, a responsible real estate investment manager, has joined forces with TRUUD to examine and deliver health as an element of the built urban environment. TRUUD (Tackling Root causes upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development) is a £10m research project, based at the University of Bristol, looking at how urban centres can be… Read more
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Researchers at UWE Bristol and the University of Bristol are appealing for local authority planners, local plan officers and public health officials to take part in research that will help integrate health into local plans. Participants will be aiding new guidance design aimed to raise awareness about the links between planning and public health, and… Read more