We are now well into our 5th year as a consortium, on ‘Community-Led Responsive and Effective Urban Health Systems’ funded by the UK FCDO. We have 8 large projects and 17 smaller innovative projects that all work alongside the various stakeholders at city level to co-design interventions to address the wide ranging complex and multifaceted…

CHORUS members will shortly be arriving in Nagasaki, Japan, to attend and present at the 8th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2024) . This year’s theme is ‘Building Just and Sustainable Health Systems Centring People and Protecting the Planet’. Do follow us on X @CHORUSUrban and on LinkedIn for regular updates from Japan.

By Francis Poitier (University of Leeds), Lauren Wallace, Adanna Nwameme and Delali Kumapley (University of Ghana), Deepa Barua and Rumana Huque (ARK Foundation) Urban October calls global attention to urban issues and the opportunities available for sustainable development. This year’s theme focuses on engaging youth to create a better urban future. Community engagement, including with…

By Delali Kumapley, University of Ghana Because most of us grew up talking, we think communicating is easy, but communication is purposeful behaviour,” – Prof. Abena Yeboah-Banin (Lecturer, Department of Communication Studies, University of Ghana).   On a regular day for a researcher, data from a multitude of sources will be consolidated to produce new…

By Patience Ami Mamattah, University of Ghana & Municipal Director of Health, Ashaiman Health Directorate, Ghana Health Services   A key strategy for improving population health at scale and in attaining universal health coverage is Health in All Policies (HiAP). HiAP aims to address the social determinants of health and equity and recognizes that population…

By Shreeman Sharma, CHORUS Research Uptake Lead, HERD International and Abhingyna Bhattarai, Research Manager for CHORUS Nepal Project 1, HERD International In public health, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are described as being non-contagious long-term conditions that are usually a result of genetics and lifestyle factors. Globally, the four main NCDs are cardiovascular disease, cancers, respiratory diseases…

By Abdullah Muhammad Rafi, ARK Foundation ARK’s SIMPLE Solution to the Urban Data Dearth On December of 2022, the Government of Bangladesh declared its next major initiative – the Smart Bangladesh Initiative – with a view to building a Smart Nation by 2041. Government’s Aspire to Innovate (a2i) program defines a ‘smart nation’ as “harnessing…

HERD International: A Glimpse of Urbanization in Nepal June 2024 Urbanisation and Health in Nepal HERD International team has shared their ‘Insights’, as Nepal is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in Asia, they have highlighted the challenges of air pollution, waste management, nutrition, NCD’s and life expectancy due to this rapid increase in urban…

By Deepak Joshi, HERD International “Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.” – Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of world wide web) Quality health data is crucial for informed, responsive decision making and resource allocation for improved health outcomes. But how do we ensure data is of a high quality and…

By Umme Salma Anee, Masroor Salauddin, Sadika Afrin, Faiaz Chowdhury, Nabila Binte jahan, Deepa Barua and Rumana Huque, ARK Foundation, Bangladesh, and Helen Elsey, University of York Urban regions in Bangladesh are now more densely populated as a result of migration and industrialization. With a population rise of 3.26% from 2022 to 2023, Dhaka, the…