Healthy Cities Conference by SMART Healthy Cities Training Platform
Date and Time
Location
Live on Zoom
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Details
The Second Annual Healty Cities Conference
Imagining Healthy and Smart Cities of the Future - Building Towards Systemic and High Dimensional Change, a New Framework
About the Conference:
As cities around the world continue to grow, new ways of thinking and the implementation of innovative solutions are required to solve the many complex problems that are being identified. Attend this conference to learn more about today’s challenges and potential solutions for healthy cities, where we can all live, work and play.
The objectives of the annual conference include:
- To foster an interdisciplinary and intersectoral community of practice among researchers, trainees, practitioners, and knowledge users interested in healthy cities.
- To transfer of knowledge of current issues, research and potential solutions related to healthy cities.
- To identify emerging priorities for healthy cities and research questions and training opportunities
Conference session topics and posters will span many areas related to healthy cities, including implementation science, convergence-by-design, food and health, Indigenous issues, and equity, aging and chronic disease, transportation and housing, and training and policy.
This conference is hosted by the Implementing Smart Cities to Build Healthy Cities (SMART)Training Platform, funded by CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC. The programming was developed in collaboration with the Healthy Cities Implementation Science (HCIS) team grant recipients. SMART aims to equip the next generation of researchers to implement successful, scalable, and enduring solutions to healthy city challenges facing growing urban centres of all sizes in Canada and globally.
- Please direct any questions to admin@smart-training.ca.
- Visit our website at https://smart-training.ca/annual-conference/ for more details.
- $50 Student fee
- $100 Regular fee