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Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies (DEVP0046 PART II)

Content:

This module aims to equip students with the knowledge, capacities and tools to critically design and evaluate urban health interventions in different contexts. The premise is that effective interventions fundamentally depend on a robust evidence base on the links between urban living conditions and health inequities, and on the involvement of different stakeholders—especially low-income and marginalised communities—in planning and decision-making.

Teaching delivery:

This module is comprised of 9 weekly teaching units and accounts for 15-credits. Each teaching unit will be supported by asynchronous activities to be completed by students ahead of each campus-based session in order to create space for interactive forms of teaching and learning in the classroom.

Topics:

This module covers the topics outlined in the table below:

Urban health in the Global South: What we know, and don’t know

Urban health: Knowledge(s) for action

Co-producing urban health knowledges for action

Healthy cities and urban planning

Participatory planning theory and practice in urban health

Documenting invisible groups

Urban health indicators and impact assessments

Planning for complex urban health problems

Financing the healthy city

Learning outcomes:

On completion of the module, participants will have:

• Knowledge of the demographic and health data needed to guide urban health interventions at the municipal scale (city-level) and intra-urban scale (within cities).

• Knowledge of the tools that can be used to critically plan, design and evaluate urban health interventions in partnership with communities and other stakeholders (formal and informal, public and private, and governmental and non-governmental).