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?
Speakers:
- 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.
Recorded on 7 March 2013 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
This article originally appeared at London School of Economics and Political Science.
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