What are the implications for urban health when Parliament resumes? By Dr David Williams, Senior Project Manager TRUUD Project On 17th July the King’s Speech, set out the Labour government priority areas for the coming sessions and some initial actions. Based on our research, three of the proposed bills for this Parliament could have 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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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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