Collaboration and research

The Healthy Cities approach recognizes the determinants of health and the need to work in collaboration across public, private, voluntary and community sector organisations. That includes involving local people in decision-making, requires political commitment and organizational and community development, and recognizes the process to be as important as the outcomes.

We bring people together and make sure that they have the information they need to make decisions that make it easier to live a healthy life.

We convene statutory and community decision-makers through mechanisms like the Healthy Cities Leadership Group and annual Healthy City and District conferences. In recent years those conferences have taken on topics from sustainable health innovation to creative health.

The Community Research Collective builds evidence from the ground up by creating structures that connect and support academics and communities to produce meaningful research.

We also convene statutory and community decision-makers through mechanisms like the Healthy Cities Leadership Group and annual Healthy City and District conferences. In recent years those conferences have taken on topics from sustainable health innovation to creative health.

That collaboration continues at groups like:

• NI Creative Health Network
• DCSDC Climate Commission
• DCSDC Age Friendly Alliance
• Western Area Integrated Partnership Board
• DCSDC Strategic Growth Partnership
• Neighbourhood Health Improvement Project

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