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Urban Health and Wellbeing Program

Dynamiques urbaines et enjeux sanitaires Paris, September 2013. Urban Health and Wellbeing Program. Mohd Nordin Hasan ICSU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Introduction. A new approach to project planning and development

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Urban Health and Wellbeing Program

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  1. Dynamiques urbaines et enjeux sanitaires Paris, September 2013 Urban Health and Wellbeing Program Mohd Nordin Hasan ICSU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

  2. Introduction • A new approach to project planning and development • Will overcome compartmentalised science and policy planning and implementation • Collaborative conceptual modeling (CCM) • Multistakeholder cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral approach supported by system dynamics modeling • To produce realistic solutions to health and wellbeing issues in the urban environment

  3. Background • ICSU ROAP established - September 2006 • Regional Committee for Asia and the Pacific (“Governing Board”) identified priority areas for ROAP • Initially 3 areas • Hazards and disasters • Ecosystems • Sustainable energy • Health and wellbeing in the changing urban environment added as a priority in 2008

  4. At ICSU • Discussions on a programme on health and wellbeing commenced in 2006 • Scoping Group formed in 2007 • Science Planning Group started work in 2008 • Report completed in 2010 • General Assembly 2011 approved programme and proposal to establish IPO on UHW

  5. At ICSU ROAP • Regional Science Planning Group formed in 2010 • 3 meetings - Kuala Lumpur (2) and Xiamen (1) • On-line consultations at every stage • Plan launched in June 2011 (22nd Pacific Science Congress)

  6. Relations with the ICSU global plan • ROAP Plan developed out of the ICSU plan • An adaptation of the global plan to Asia-Pacific Region • A step in the implementation of the ICSU Plan • Strong focus and inter-relations maintained – it’s one and the same programme!

  7. Asia-Pacific planning context • Environmentally fragile regions: e.g. pacific islands • Human development indicators: lowest to highest • Health: life style diseases, infectious diseases, injuries • Income: low, high, emerging • Population density: low to some of the highest • Cultural: ancient to modern • Governance: monarchy, democracy, socialist etc

  8. Strengths • Ethnic diversity • Resilience • Many surviving local health practices (Ayurveda, Chinese, Vaastu, Fengshui) • Strong family values and social safety nets • High aspirations • Skilled manpower in many fields • Young population

  9. Urbanization trends Rapid urbanization >50% urban population Mostly young people Has triple burden of infectious diseases emerging life style diseases injuries from accidents

  10. Features of the UHW programme • Recognises that urban health issues are complex, and require multi-disciplinary approaches • Promotes research into urban health and wellbeing where researchers address multi-sectoral issues and involve a wide range of stakeholders  • Adopts a system dynamics approach

  11. Beyond silos….taking a systems approach Understanding of multiple determinants of health and wellbeing

  12. Still more variables: feed back loops of drivers/causes

  13. Recommended implementation strategy • Identify institutions keen on using systems approach in work on urban health and wellbeing; • Encourage institutions to engage in building capacity • Encourage institutions to propose and undertake pilot projects; • Bring project team into contact with potential funding agencies to support the research • Use the exemplar pilot studies as base for outreach to get city administrators and governors to support and use the systems approach for better evidence-based decision making.

  14. Implementation of the science plan – began 2012 • Capacity building • particular attention - utility of the systems approach to a complex problem • Development of exemplar research projects • centered on 6 cities (Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Pune, Xiamen, Taipei) • Examples of use of systems approach to deliver better outcomes

  15. Implementation Step-1 • Pre-scoping Workshop, Hyderabad, 28 – 29 June 2012. • Multidisciplinary, multi stakeholder workshop • Identified needs and priorities (nutrition and health, waste management, informal settlements, urbantransport; vector-borne disease / communicable diseases added in 2nd workshop) • Explored potential research teams with merit and output-oriented focus • Discussed possibilities for research funding and support • Developed call for pre-proposals

  16. Implementation Step-2 • Scoping Workshop Bangkok, 28 – 29 August 2012 • Reviewed concept proposals received (6/8 accepted for development to full proposal) • Achieved • clarification of research aims of projects, • identification of training needs in systems approaches, • identification of complementary activities required for successful management of pilot projects • agreement of selected projects

  17. ,,,contd • Agreed design features (August 2012): • Used systems thinking via the CCM approach • Recognise that urban-health problems are multi-sectoral, and solving them require multi- disciplinary approaches, and • Projects takes into account the interests of a wide range of stakeholders • Regional Steering Committee formed • Chair Prof JavedIqbal • Members Profs SoottipornChittmittrapap, Tony Capon, C.P. Ramachandran, Katrina Proust, NordinHasan (ex officio)

  18. Implementation Step-3 • Systems Workshop, Kuala Lumpur January 2013 • Leaders of selected projects with advanced copies of projects proposals • Introduction to dynamic modelling and collaborative conceptual modelling (CCM) methodologies • Assistance to finalise proposals for submission to funding bodies on-going

  19. Final remarks • All ICSU regional offices have urban health as a priority area of work • Approach adopted by Asia-Pacific can be shared as a template to guide implementation in other regions (Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean) • Approach fits very well as a tool for planning multidisciplinary integrated research, the core concept underlying new 10-year global platform for research on global sustainability Future Earth

  20. Thank you! Planning Group members et al. Members • Tony Capon, Australia • Yong Guan Zhu, China • PhillipaHowden Chapman, New Zealand • Reiko Kishi, Japan • Jaime Montoya , Phillipines • Indira Nath, India, Chair • Katrina Proust , Australia • NordinHasan (Ex officio) Method Specialist • Barry Newell, Australia ICSU ROAP • BHJ Mckellar, Chair RCAP Australia • Nor Zaneedarwaty Norman, Malaysia • HizamJaafar, Malaysia • SharizadDahlan

  21. Dynamiques urbaines et enjeux sanitaires Paris, September 2013 Merci beaucoup !Cảm ơn bạn rất nhiều

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