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The Partnership for Healthy Cities presents news, stories, case studies and accomplishments from cities in its global network, whose leaders have taken on the role of urban health champions.
A Partnership-supported 3Ws communication campaign features posters mounted on 100 garbage trucks and also displayed at three of the city’s main market areas, three city bus terminals and four prominent intersections.
Under the theme "Safe Health - Happy Journey," a new campaign from the City Traffic Safety Board guides and encourages road users to voluntarily prevent Covid-19 infection in the community.
The Mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, spoke at an online discussion organized by the Partnership for Healthy Cities, on the role of cities in tackling the coronavirus for a healthier future.
The Ministry of Transportation and Public Works seeks to promote social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The interventions indicate the city's commitment to combat the crisis as part of the Partnership for Healthy Cities.
We highlight communication campaigns from eight cities around the world.
Ahead of World Cities Day on Oct. 31 – a day meant to promote global cooperation on urban issues – a convening by the Partnership for Healthy Cities highlighted urban areas that have developed innovative strategies to fight COVID-19.
Cities are major drivers of public health and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought increasing and urgent necessity for effective, innovative leadership and collaboration within and between cities.
Mayor Claudia López spoke at a Partnership for Healthy Cities event to commemorate World Cities Day 2020. World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus began the session by recognizing Bogotá's commitment to promoting the use of bicycles as a safe and active mechanism for mobility.
About half of the world's population live in urban areas, and city mayors are on the frontline of the COVID-19 response.
While COVID continues to cast a long shadow over our everyday lives, from Baku, Azerbaijan to Bogota, Columbia, there are also countless examples of how cities and communities have mobilized to respond to the social and economic fallout from the pandemic – building new forms of cooperation that also promote a wide range of longer-term social and health benefits.