Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme

Dr Franz W. Gatzweiler is a Professor at the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Executive Director of the International Council for Science’s global program 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 doctoral thesis was on the “Nature of Economic Value and the Value of Nature”. His current research focus is the science of complex systems, and urban and global health. He has received research grants from various German and international research foundations. In 2015, he received his postdoctoral qualification (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 2014, he was a senior researcher at the University of Bonn’s Center for Development Research (ZEF).

A systems approach to urban health and wellbeing has come of age in China.- A systems approach to urban health and wellbeing has come of age in the Asia-Pacific region.- A Systems Approach to Urban Health and Wellbeing has come of age in Latin-America and the Caribbean.- A systems approach to urban health and wellbeing has come of age in Africa.- Facilitating the Governance of Urban Sustainability and Resilience Transitions with Knowledge-Action Systems Analysis.- Advancing Urban Health and Wellbeing Through Collective and Artificial Intelligence: A Systems Approach 3.0.- The SALURBAL (Salud Urbana en América Latina) Project: learning from Latin America’s Cities for a Healthier Future.- Antimicrobial resistance is a health risk in Chinese cities - now it has been mapped.- Financing & Implementing Resilience with a Systems Approach in Beirut.- Addressing the Environment and Health Nexus is a Strategic Approach to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals in ASEAN.- Health and Wellbeingin the Changing Urban Environment.