‘From Evidence To Impact’ Series. Webinar 3: ‘Who Gets Left Behind? Addressing Health Vulnerability and Inequity in Urban Contexts

 

To mark Universal Health Coverage Day 2025, we are holding the third event in our ‘From Evidence to Impact series. 

We are bringing together experts from Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria and Ghana to share findings, lessons and insights on health vulnerabilities in urban contexts, and recommendations for health system interventions that can help address health inequity and advance progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage.

11th December 2025, 10.00 – 11.00 GMT.

 

Poverty exists across urban areas and in a wide variety of forms, from single migrants sharing overcrowded lodgings, small pockets of slum households, to large informal settlements. This diversity results in forms of urban poverty being overlooked in the data and evidence used by decision makers. The invisibility of the poor undermines resource allocation to overcome urban health inequities.

Across the urban poor, gender, ethnicity, age, disability all intersect and affect health. Within all the CHORUS cities, health outcomes and the health behaviours, exposures and access to quality health care which underpin them, are determined by individual and community identities. These in turn are shaped by wider social, political and economic structures and norms.

This webinar will look at who are most vulnerable in the urban contexts we work in, the barriers faced, how CHORUS has identified and worked with the most marginalised and the key recommendations for strengthening urban health equity.

 

Chair: Shreeman Sharma, Research Uptake Manager at HERD International

Panel Members:

  1. Professor Syed Masud Ahmed, Director of the Centre of Excellence for Health Systems and Universal Health Coverage, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, Bangladesh
  2. Professor Zahidul Quayyum, Co-Director of the Centre of Excellence for Urban Health Equity and Health, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, Bangladesh
  3. Dr. Deepak Paudel, Public Health Professional and Health Systems Expert, HERD International, Nepal
  4. Dr. Osasuyi Dirisu, Executive Director of the Policy Innovation Centre, Nigeria
  5. Professor Peter Elias, Co-Director of the Centre for Housing & Sustainable Development, University of Lagos

 

Watch the webinar here:

 

See event poster for more details