A Systems Analysis Approach to Health and Wellbeing
in the Urban Environment
An ICSU (International Council for Science) Workshop
in collaboration with IIASA with additional support from the US National Science Foundation

Laxenburg, Austria, January 24–25, 2008

Day 1, Session 1

Welcome: Leen Hordijk (pdf) (Director, IIASA),
Carthage Smith (Deputy Executive Director, ICSU),
Workshop Co-Chairs: Pierre Ritchie (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Dov Jaron (Drexel University, USA)

Review of ICSU activities to date (pdf): Khotso Mokhele (Chair, ICSU Committee for Scientific Planning and Review)

Introduction: Principles of Multidisciplinary Systems Analysis:
Landis MacKellar (IIASA)

Keynote Address: Linkages between Health, Energy, Climate Change and the Urban Environment (pdf): Andy Haines (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Day 1, Session 2 – State of the Science

Environmental Factors Related to Urban Health (pdf): Anthony Capon (National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra)

Natural & Human-Induced Hazards Factors Related to Urban Health (pdf): Ania Grobicki (World Health Forum, Geneva)

Panel Discussion:
Linda Bourque (Moderator) (Department of Community Health, University of California, Los Angeles),
Stan Morain (Earth Data Analysis, University of New Mexico),
Olle Selinus (Geochemical division, Geological Survey of Sweden, Uppsala),
Markus Amann (IIASA),
Wuyi Wang (Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)

Day 1, Session 3 — State of the Science

Behavioural, Communicable & Chronic Disorders Factors Related to Urban Health (pdf): Suzanne Bennett Johnson (Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Florida State University College of Medicine, USA)

Epidemiology, Health Delivery Inequality Factors Related to Urban Health (pdf): Gérard Salem (Lab. Space, Health and Territories, University of Paris X-Nanterre, France)

Panel Discussion:
Elijah N. Ogola (Moderator) (University of Nairobi Medical School, Kenya),
Maud Huynen (International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development, Maastricht),
Shonali Pachauri (IIASA),
Robert Porter (Diabetes Help and Research Fund, Germany)

Day 1, Session 4 — State of the Science

Economic and Policy Factors Related to Urban Health (pdf): William McGreevey (Georgetown University, USA)

Social Issues Related to Urban Health: Landis MacKellar (IIASA)

Panel Discussion:
Thomas Krafft (Moderator) (Geomed Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Germany),
Manuel Cesario (OASCA - University of Franca, Brazil),
Clara Cohen (IIASA),
Danielle Ompad (Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, The New York Academy of Medicine)

Day 2, Session 5 — State of the Science

Infrastructure Factors Related to Urban Health (pdf): Clinton Andrews (Program in Urban Planning & Policy Development, Rutgers University)

Food and Nutrition Factors Related to Urban Health (pdf): Brian Ratcliffe (The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen)

Panel Discussion:
Osman Galal (Moderator) (School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles),
Albert McGill (Institute of Biotechnology, Fuzhou University, China), Chuck Rice (Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University),
David Wiberg (IIASA)

Day 2, Session 6 — Overview, Integration and Synthesis

What does the State of the Science inform us about what we know & still need to know about urban health? What are the key issues? Marvalee Wake (Moderator) (Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley)
Lynn Mytelka (Professor, UNU-MERIT and ICSU-CSPR member)

Day 2, Session 7 — Overview, Integration and Synthesis

What are the links across the respective scientific domains? How can a systems analysis approach contribute?
Ranjan Bose (Moderator) (The Energy and Resources Institute – New Delhi)
Francoise Barten (Nijmegen Urban Health Group, Radboud University) Henri Korn (Laboratoire Récepteurs et Cognitions, CNRS, France) Landis MacKellar (IIASA)

Day 2, Session 8 — Recommendations

Recommendations to the Planning Group: What are the key questions around which to organize the systems analysis of health and wellbeing in a changing urban environment? Workshop Co-Chairs

Closure (K. Mokhele, ICSU-CSPR Chair)

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