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
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
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
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