AIPH Green City Briefing: Urban green spaces for health and wellbeing

15 May 2025 , 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm BST Online

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Urban green spaces for health and wellbeing

People are measurably happier when they work and live in green surroundings. This comes from both physical and psychological benefits.

This Briefing featured the winner of the ‘Living Green for Urban Health & Wellbeing’ category of the AIPH World Green City Awards 2024 – São Paulo, Brazil. The city won for its ‘Green and Healthy Environments Programme’. Find out more.

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Programme

00:00:00 – Welcome by Dr Francesca Boyd, AIPH Green City Consultant

00:01:21 – Introduction by MC Giselle Sebag (MPH, LEED AP), Executive Director of the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) and the Founder of the Vital Cities Collective.

00:05:22 – Presentation by Dr Nathalie Röbbel, Lead for WHO’s work on Urban Health

00:18:48 – Presentation by Samanta Pereira de Souza, Technical Assistant in the Primary Health Care Coordination of the Municipal Health Department of São Paulo

00:30:20 – Q&A

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