HEALTHY-POLIS

The overall aim of the Healthy-Polis consortium is to help protect public health by promoting multi-disciplinary policy relevant research on urban environmental health and sustainability, improving methodologies for health risk assessment, facilitating international collaboration (including standardisation of research methods), contributing to the research training of scientists and students, and engaging with key stakeholders in Government, local authorities, international organisations (e.g. WHO and WMO), industry and academia... Rapidly increasing urbanisation, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, is stretching resources and infrastructure, and threatening environmental quality.