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Healthy African Cities
FromSpring 2013 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf
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96 minutes
Released:
Mar 7, 2013
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Contributor(s): Dr Ama de Graft Aikins, Dr Gora Mboup, Professor Vanessa Watson | Notwithstanding improvements, urban health in Africa remains a particular challenge, with 70 per cent of urban dwellers living in informal settlements, facing multiple disease burdens. How might we move towards healthy African cities? Ama de Graft Aikins is a visiting fellow at LSE Health and senior lecturer at the Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana. Gora Mboup is a senior demographic and health expert and the chief of the Global Urban Observatory of UN-HABITAT. Vanessa Watson is professor and deputy dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town.
Released:
Mar 7, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
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