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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.
The city of Helsinki empowered students at the Suutarinkylä school to redesign their environment. With support from mobility experts, new infrastructure has improved the safety of walking and cycling in the area—a model ready to be scaled to all Helsinki schools.
The city of Abidjan launched a new COVID-19 prevention campaign with support from the Partnership for Healthy Cities.
Istanbul's new bicycle route is the first stage of the 3.3-kilometer bicycle path that will connect the coastal road to Marmaray and the metro.
COVID-19 contact tracing in Fortaleza, Brazil is supported by the Partnership for Healthy Cities.
To celebrate National Health Day, the city of Bandung unveiled new smoke-free signage in four prominent locations.
The city of Santiago was recently selected to join the Partnership for Healthy Cities Policy Accelerator, an initiative that will support a cohort of cities in the creation and adoption of sound public health policies.
With the city's smoke-free regulation, Bandung Mayor Oded M Danial hopes that Bandung tourism will be cleaner without cigarette smoke in public places.
The Chicago Department of Public Health led the creation of a new ‘community site selection tool’ that brings together data on tree canopy, air quality, land surface temperatures, economic hardship, and other factors, with support from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Partnership for Healthy Cities.
Major General Khaled Abdel Aal, Governor of Cairo, held a meeting with Dr. Naima Al-Qusair, representative of the World Health Organization in Egypt on the sidelines of the World Cities Day conference, held in Luxor on October 30 and 31.
Bogotá Mayor Claudia López has a message: the more cities join this work and the faster we act, the more lives we can save.