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Invited presentations and symposia

  • Boeing, G. “Spatial Analytics to Benchmark and Monitor Healthy and Sustainable Cities.” Exploring the Research Opportunities from the Intersection of Advancing Planetary Health and Cardiovascular Disease: Improving Human Health. Hosted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Dec 14–15, 2023. Symposia
  • Sallis, J.F. “Indicators for healthy and sustainable cities: Scaling-up evidence-informed policies.” World Health Cities Forum. Incheon, Korea. November 23, 2023. Invited presentation
  • Sallis, J.F. “International evidence on built environments and physical activity: Translating evidence to policy with the 1000 Cities Challenge.” AURI (Architecture and Urban Research Institute). Sejong, Korea. November 27, 2023. Lecture for AURI staff. Invited presentation
  • Boeing, G. “The 1,000 Cities Challenge.” Cities, Form, Environmental Exposures, and Health Impacts. Hosted by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. Sitges, Spain. Oct 24–25, 2023. Symposia
  • Boeing, G. “Measuring Built Environments around the World: New Insights into Urban Sustainability and Health.” Tech in the City Speaker Series. Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio. Feb 10, 2023. Invited presentation
  • Boeing, G. “Urban Informatics for Transport: Measuring Networks and Access around the World.” University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. Washington, DC. Feb 17, 2023. Invited presentation
  • Adlakha, D. & Sallis, J.F. (2023). “Placemaking: City design for public health” Sponsored by Bawtaqah Foundation and Hayy Jameel. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. February 4, 2023. Invited presentation
  • Adlakha, D. & Sallis, J.F. (2023). “Built environments, physical activity, and heath: International evidence and its translation to policy and practice.” Public lecture organized by Bawtaqah Foundation. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. January 28, 2023. Invited presentation
  • Sallis, J.F. “Healthy and sustainable cities. Physical Activity and Public Health Researcher Course.” Sponsored by CDC. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. September 16, 2022. Invited presentation
  • Boeing, G. “Measuring Healthy, Sustainable Cities: Global Urban Indicators from Open Data.” World Planning Schools Congress. Nusa Dua, Indonesia. Aug 29–Sep 2, 2022. Conference presentation
  • Boeing, G. “Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World.” National University of Singapore, Department of Real Estate seminar series. Singapore. Mar 14, 2022. Invited presentation
  • Boeing, G. “Urban Morphology and Street Network Science.” University of Cincinnati, Department of Geography. Cincinnati, Ohio. Oct 15, 2021. Invited presentation
  • Boeing, G. “Street Network Science and New Urban Data.” Cornell University, Tech Campus. Urban Data guest lecture. New York, New York. Oct 13, 2021. Invited presentation
  • Boeing, G. “Street Networks and the Evolving Urban Structure.” CEMFI Empirical Microeconomics seminar series. Madrid, Spain. Apr 8, 2021. Invited presentation
  • Boeing, G. “Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World.” University of Bristol and Newcastle University Centre for Data. Spatial Analytics and Data seminar series. Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Jan 26, 2021. Invited presentatio
  • Boeing, G. “Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World.” Asian Institute of Management. The Science of Data seminar series. Makati, Philippines. Oct 26, 2020. Invited presentation

Citations

The World Bank used some of our recent findings and data in their “Enablers of Inclusive Cities” report with the G20 India Presidency. Nice evidence of our work’s impact: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/058d5657-fe16-476c-8c94-691773410fb5

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Plan periodic reassessments to monitor progress

Your team can continue to work together to advocate for progress and serve as a resource for city leaders.

Repeating the calculation of indicators every few years provides occasions to celebrate progress, identify continuing, and update goals.

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Present results to city leaders & build consensus for an improvement plan

You are now ready to organize one or more meetings or events to present results to city leaders and encourage their use in setting goals to improve policies and environments in your cities.

It is useful to have people from multiple sectors involved in the presentations.There are recordings of local events in which indicators are presented to city leaders on the website.

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Submit your data, Scorecard, and Report for inclusion on the Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities website

Send your city’s finalised Scorecard and/or Report to info@healthysustainablecities.org, for upload to the Global Observatorywebsite.

Your city will officially be included in the 1000 Cities Challenge, and city teams will become part of our Global Healthy and Sustainable City-Indicators Collaboration.

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Compute spatial and policy indicators using the Global Healthy & Sustainable City Indicators (GHSCI) Software

Check your data and indicator results to ensure they are as accurate as possible. Validation checklists and the Global Observatory team will assist with validation.

Please contact our team for support: info@healthysustainablecities.org

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Compute spatial and policy indicators using the Global Healthy & Sustainable City Indicators (GHSCI) Software

Use the GHSCI Software to:

  • Configure and analyze spatial data
  • Upload the Policy Checklist for analysis
  • Generate indicator outputs (e.g., maps, summary reports for validation and comparison)
  • Please contact our team if you require support using the GHSCI Software

Policy indicators include:

Metropolitan transport policy with health-focused actions

Air pollution policies for transport and land-use planning

Requirements for public transport access to employment and services

Employment distribution requirements

Parking restrictions to discourage car use

Minimum public open space access requirements

Street connectivity requirements

Provision of pedestrian infrastructure and targets for walking participation

Provision of cycling infrastructure and targets for cycling participation

Housing density requirements

Minimum requirements for public transport access and targets for public transport use

Publicly available information on government expenditure for different transport modes

Spatial indicators include:

Population with access to fresh food market or supermarket

Population living in neighbourhoods above minimum density threshold for WHO physical activity target

Population with access to regularly running formal public transport (<20 mins)

Population living in neighbourhoods above the median walkability across cities

Population living in neighbourhoods above minimum connectivity threshold for WHO physical activity target

Population with access to any public open space

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Collect data

Policy data

  1. Identify the relevant level(s) of government for your analysis, and the government sectors responsible for the policy areas covered in the Policy Checklist.
  2. Conduct a search of government or public websites and repositories to identify relevant policy documents.
  3. Find and enter relevant policy details into the 1000 Cities Challenge Policy Checklist.

Spatial data

  1. Confirm the existence of the required spatial data.
  2. Download data for analysis of your urban area.
DataPurposeRequired
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap .pbf file with coverage of the region (and time) of interest; this could be an historical planet file, or a region-specific excerptYes
Population GridsPopulation distribution raster grid or vector data with coverage of urban region of interest. GHS population grid (R2023) is recommendedYes
Region BoundaryVector boundary for identifying study region (e.g. geopackage, geojson or shp).Conditional
Urban RegionGlobal Human Settlements Layer Urban Centres database and/or administrative boundary for urban region of interestConditional
Transit FeedsCollections of zipped GTFS feeds to represent public transport service frequencyNo
OtherOther custom data, such as points of interestNo

Further information and guidance on how to collect policy and spatial data is available on the Global Observatory website, Resources tab

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Seek advice from country/regional mentor

The Global Observatory team, including country/regional coordinators can act as mentors or guides and will be able to answer questions related to the data collection plan, policy and spatial indicators computation, and generation of the Scorecard and Report.

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Generate a Data Collection and Analysis Plan

  • Download and familiarize yourself with the Policy Checklist.
  • Review the steps for the Indicators Software available from the Global Observatory website, Resources tab.
  • Develop a policy data collection plan and identify who will collect the data.

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Attend or watch an information and/or training session