Part of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European Network of Healthy Cities, the Derry & Strabane Healthy City & District project brings business, community and statutory leaders together to put health at the top of the public agenda in our city and district and face the factors that cause poor health and health inequalities head on.

Celebrating Phase VII Healthy City designation

In 2022 Derry City & Strabane became a World Health Organization Healthy City for the third time. Our comprehensive application detailed some of the amazing work taking place across the council area to make it easier to live a healthy life here. 

But being a Healthy City is a process not an outcome. WHO describes healthy cities as ones that are conscious of their current health status and striving to improve it, committed to health and putting structures and processes in place to achieve it, and continually improving its physical and social environment and community resources to enable people to support each other.

Our current priorities

Following successful designation, we sat down with our cross sector Healthy Cities Leadership Group to agree three current priorities and three emerging themes to guide our work until 2025 when Phase VII of the initiative closes. In that period we will gather evidence, convene action groups and originate projects under these six headings.

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