Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme

Dr. Franz W. Gatzweiler is Professor at the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Executive Director of the International Council for Science’s global programme on “Urban Health and Wellbeing: a Systems Approach.” He studied Agricultural Economics at the University of Bonn and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany. His doctorate research (summa cum laude) was on the “Nature of Economic Value and the Value of Nature.” Now his interests focus on the science of complex systems, urban, and planetary health. He received stipends and research grants from various German and international research foundations. In 2015, he earned a habilitation (fakultas docendi) for independent teaching and research in the field of resource economics from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Before joining the Chinese Academy of Sciences in October 2014, he was Senior Researcher at the Center of Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn in Germany.

A smart health approach in cities.- Why health in cities matter: A whole systems approach in practice.- Co-creating FAIR data for healthy and resilient urban development.- Working towards more inclusive inner-city environments for people with disability.- Who are the poor, and how do they survive in an emerging city of developing countries.- Global assessments of sexual and reproductive health needs of rural-urban migrants in an urbanizing world.- Sound alliance: a participatory management and systems approach to co-create healthy urban soundscapes and procure Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda.- COVID-19 and Urban Food System.- Developing a Digital Learning Platform for Adolescents in Vulnerable Communities in The City of Medellin, Colombia.- A Tool to Tackle Covid-19 Confinement Challenges.- Partial System Analysis of Traffic Noise Reduction in Tarik Al Jadidah, Beirut, Lebanon.- Managing urban green spaces for biodiversity and health: systems thinking from a regional Australian city on synergies, trade-offs, and enablers.- Interdisciplinary participative platforms to ensure the wellbeing of African city dwellers.- Access to contraceptives among urban residents living in informal settlements in Kira Municipality, Uganda.- Effective execution of provisions under Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) through multi sectoral approach to reduce use of tobacco in Indore city, India.- Operationalizing the One Health Approach in a Context of Urban Transformations.