Improving Global Health
Global Urban Development is deeply committed to improving public health for people and communities throughout the world. Our particular focus is on people who are living and working in urban environments. Public health is a vital necessity and an essential foundation for generating sustainable prosperity and quality of life worldwide in the 21st century. Currently this GUD committee is working with the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) to help establish an IUHPE Working Group on Climate Change and Health. The impetus for creating such a Working Group grew out of a recent workshop at IUHPE’s World Conference on Health Promotion in Geneva, Switzerland on July 12, 2010. The workshop on “Leaving Coal in the Ground: Building a Sustainable Economy and Ending a Global Health Crisis by 2030” was organized by Dr. Vivian Lin, IUHPE Vice President for Scientific Affairs.
Improving Global Health Committee
Co-Chairs: Claire Blanchard, Wilfried Kreisel, and Vivian Lin
Nefise Bazoglu
Lucelena Betancur
Edward Blakely
Rinaldo Brutoco
Sundar Burra
Tim Campbell
Susan Chaplin
Gail Christopher
Kristie Daniel
Dianne Dillon-Ridgley
Malika Djebli
Ladislau Dowbor
Leonard Duhl
Alain Durand-Lasserve
Deeohn Ferris
Sharon Friel
Matthew Hawkins
Paola Jiron
Lorna Johnson
Jane Katz
Vincent Kitio
Claudia Laub
Bruce Lustig
John McKoy
Jane McRae
Rebecka Nolmark
Lora O’Connor
Carla O'Dell
Mary Jane Ortega
Terry Patinkin
Janice Perlman
Glorianna Pionati
Jonas Rabinovitch
Cynthia Robbins
James Rochow
Jocelyn Rugunda
Nathan Sandwick
Wicaksono Sarosa
Richard Seline
Nola-Kate Seymoar
Ranjit Sivaprakasam
Deborah Taylor
Marta Tellado
Steve Viederman
Patrick Wakely
Rasna Warah
Emiel Wegelin
Mark Weinheimer
Marc Weiss
Nicholas You
Muhammad Yunus
Robert Zdenek