Cities for Better Health

Featured insights from: @CityBloom87 @c40cities @JoMJewell

How do our streets, schools and shops shape what we eat? 📅 Join us on 10 June (15.00-16.00 CEST) #CityHealthTalk explores practical examples of how cities and communities are creating healthier and more equitable food environments. 📝 Sign up to register: tinyurl.com/42thuszn

🌱The spaces where we buy, share and experience food shape health every day. The Thriving Foodscapes Approach with @citiesforpeople helps cities understand how neighbourhoods influence access to healthy food and identify where barriers exist. 🔗 Discover more: tinyurl.com/4uxf5txp #HealthyFood #UrbanHealth

🍽️ Why are healthy food options harder to reach in some neighbourhoods than others? It’s not behaviour, it’s the foodscape. Use our Foodscapes Assessment toolkit with @citiesforpeople to map what’s shaping access to healthy food in your city. 📖 Explore the toolkit: tinyurl.com/3brmuxyu

🍴 Access to healthy food is shaped long before people sit down to eat. In Campinas 🇧🇷,  Passos para uma vida melhor unites city sectors to improve food environments and create more opportunities for healthier living across the community. 🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/bvufnvmj #HealthyFood #UrbanHealth

What does healthier urban living look like in practice? Join @Penalosa_G (@8_80Cities), Hélène Chartier (@c40cities) and the winners of the 2024 Healthy Cities Challenge from 🇧🇷 🇦🇷 🇰🇪 to hear how local action and urban design are helping shape healthy, green and thriving communities! 📅 19 May | 17.00 CEST 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4cn8JHP

🍱 Children can be powerful advocates for healthier food habits. In Chiba City 🇯🇵, COPI Japan is helping children bring healthy eating into everyday family life through nutrition ambassadors, school workshops and community partnerships. 📘 Read more: tinyurl.com/8ba9pdaa #HealthyFood #UrbanHealth

🍏 Healthy food environments don't happen by chance. They are shaped by policy, partnerships and the everyday realities of city life. Across Latin America, cities are coming together with @UNICEF and @citiesforpeople to explore how healthier food environments for children can become a reality. 📘 Read more: tinyurl.com/3te2nbwj #HealthyFood #UrbanHealth

📄Source: Feeding Profit: How Food Environments Are Failing Children UNICEF Child Nutrition Report, 2025 🔗 unicef.org/reports/feedin…

💡1 in 5 children aged 5-19 live with overweight, a reality fuelled by unequal access to healthy food environments. Cities for Better Health works with local communities to create urban spaces where healthy choices are accessible and affordable. 👉 Learn more about our approach to healthy food: tinyurl.com/rweum44h #HealthyFood #ChildhoodObesity

Lima 🇵🇪 is the first city in Peru to join the Cities for Better Health network! In La Victoria, schools, health services, and communities are coming together to make healthier choices easier for children – in the spaces where they live, learn, and grow. 🤸‍♂️ 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/3jxsjw9e #HealthyFoodEnvironments #ChildhoodObesity @munilavictoria @CAREenPeru

What makes a coalition for urban health actually work? Shared purpose. Clear roles. Strong relationships. See what cities have learned about designing coalitions that are built to last. 📘 Read more: tinyurl.com/539hc7fe #UrbanHealth #HealthEquity

💭 Coalitions thrive when they partner with people who already know the community – its networks, its strengths and its needs. Hear how this accelerates action in the latest #CityHealthTalk. 🎥 Watch now: tinyurl.com/37nu622t

One big insight from cities: the “right” coalition does not exist on day one. Partners, roles and ways of working evolve as cities learn how to work across systems together🔄 Explore what cities have learned in our coalition-building report. 📘 Read more: tinyurl.com/539hc7fe #UrbanHealth

What happens when a whole city comes together for children’s health? Across community sites in Logan 🇦🇺, a city-wide coalition with @LoganTogether is making healthy choices easier for children and families. 🌱 📖 Discover how: tinyurl.com/6h5xakfh

Building a coalition is one thing; sustaining it is another. 🤝 Our latest newsletter shares how cities are aligning partners and embedding action into existing systems to improve children’s health.🤸‍♂️ 📖Read the newsletter: tinyurl.com/3685t6s5 📩 Subscribe for more city insights: tinyurl.com/bdeyz6hf

🇹🇭 Bangkok is turning inspiration into action! At Benchakitti Park for Better Health, new public fitness facilities help around 10,000 visitors stay active each day and reduce the risk of chronic disease. Delivered in partnership with @chadchart_team and @DKAMBinThailand, it shows how cities can turn proven solutions into real impact. 🔗Learn more: tinyurl.com/49rz6ane