This course, Healthy Urban Systems, is relevant for all levels of disciplines linked to the city, health, the environment, social and human sciences, data sciences and design. The MOOC is delivered through a range of videos, glossary, quizzes, exercises, discussion forums and lasts for a duration of 4 weeks (1 session per week to be taken at your convenience).
It has been created and launched by Prof. Céline Rozenblat and Jeff van de Poel from the University of Lausanne UNIL-EPFL Foundation for Continuing Education, in conjunction with ImaginationLancaster.
On the course, you will learn to:
- Address urban health through complex multidisciplinary approaches
- use multidimensional and multiscale concepts, methods, and ecosystem frameworks
- mobilize and support all players directly or indirectly involved in urban health.
Register to the PART I on COURSERA here.
Information:
MOOC HEALTHY URBAN SYSTEMS – PART I – Registration now open.
Materials: videos, glossary, quizzes, exercises, discussion forums
Duration: 4 weeks – 1 session per week to be taken at your convenience
Workload: 2 to 3 hours per week
Accreditation (possible and not compulsory): 2 ECTS for PART I, issued by the University of Lausanne via COURSERA (US$ 25)
General coordination:
University of Lausanne – UNIL-EPFL Foundation for Continuing Education
Prof. Céline Rozenblat and Jeff van de Poel
Course content:
PART I : Concepts and Observations
– Contains 2 modules: Module 1 & Module 2
– Starts on November 15, 2023
– Lasts 4 weeks – 1 session per week
– 2 ECTS
MODULE 1: A multidisciplinary framework
Coordinator: Ibtihal El-Bastawissi
Former Dean, Faculty of Architecture – Design and Built Environment, Beirut Arab University (BAU), Lebanon; Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Architectural Engineering Department, Alexandria University, Egypt
Content:
• Introduction to key concepts and perspectives
• Urban health, SDGs, and planetary limits
• History of Urban Health
• Complex systems
• Systemic risks
• The collaborative approach as a complex system
Examples:
• Health issues for southern and northern cities
• Housing and Climate
• The BAU multidisciplinary laboratory (architecture, medicine, engineering)
MODULE 2: Observing, measuring, and representing
Coordinator: Celine Rozenblat
Prof. of Urban Geography and Complex Networks, Institute of geography and sustainability, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Content:
• Observations with various examples
• Dimensions, scales, levels, temporalities (delineations, multi-scale)
• Mixed data
• Cohort example
• Data management and ethical issues
• Old and new data collection
• Machine learning and remote sensing
• Identifying determinants, ecological fallacy
• Elaborating data framework with “machine scientist”
• Entry points, Assets-based approaches
Part II: Theories and Models
will begin on 15 December 2023 – during 4 weeks – 2 EC
Part III: Urban Design and Policies
will begin on 15 January 2024 – during 4 weeks – 2 ECTSTS
Register to the PART I on COURSERA here.
For the 3 parts of the MOOC, 29 intervenes with international reputations:
In order of appearance
• Ibtihal Y. El-Bastawissi, Former Dean, Faculty of Architecture – Design and Built Environment, Beirut Arab University (BAU), Lebanon; Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Architectural Engineering Department, Alexandria University, Egypt
• Jo Ivey Boufford, Clinical Prof. of Global Health at the New York University School of Global Public Health and Clinical Prof. of Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine. Immediate Past President of the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) (2017-2019).
• Carlos Dora, President of the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH). Former Coordinator Public Health and the Environment Department at the World Health Organization (WHO)
• Franz Gatzweiler, Senior Research Advisor – United Nations University – Institute in Macau (UNU Macau), past Executive Director of the Urban Health and Well-Being Commission of the International Science Council (UHWB – ISC)
• Evelyne de Leeuw, Prof. of Urban Health and Policy and Director of the Healthy Urban Environments Collaboratory (HUE), University of Sydney, Australia
• Hany Ayyad, Prof. of Urban Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt
• Marie Valentine Florin, Executive Director of the International Risk Governance Center EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland
• Michael Davies, Prof. of Building Physics and the Environment, Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, UK
• Celine Rozenblat, Prof. of Urban Geography and Complex Networks, Institute of geography and sustainability, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Martin Loidl, Head of Mobility Lab, Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, Austria
• Jason Thompson, Associate Professor, Transport, Health and Urban Design Research Laboratory, Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Stephane Joost, Senior Scientist – Geographical Information Systems Laboratory, Architecture School, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
• Pedro Manuel Marques Vidal, Prof. of Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Simon Hodson, Executive Director CODATA, International Science Council (ISC)
• Thiago Herick de Sa, Technical Officer, Age-friendly Environments, WHO, previously Department of the Social Determinants of Health (HQ/SDH), Division of UHC/Healthier Populations, WHO
• Saroj Jayasinghe, Emeritus Prof. of Medicine, University of Colombo and Consultant Physician, Sri Lanka
• Gabriele Harrer Puchner, CEO System Logics T.T. St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Arnaud Banos, Geographer – Senior researcher, CNRS UMR IDEES – University of Le Havre, France
• Bengt Kayser, Emeritus Prof. and medical doctor at the Institute of Sports Science, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Marianna Cavada, Senior Lecturer, MA Architecture & Urbanism, University of Manchester, UK; previously Lecturer in Urban Design Policy, School of Architecture, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
• Chris D Rogers, Director of the Research Centre in Infrastructure and Urban Systems, University of Birmingham, UK
• Rachel Cooper, Professor and chair in Design Institute for the Contemporary Arts Lancaster University – GB
• Stéphane Luyet, Health care System researcher, previously ASSURA insurance
Nathalie Roebbel Head of Urban Health Unit, WHO
• Jason Corburn, Professor of Public Health & City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Keiko Nakamura, Prof. Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Public Health Department of Global Health Entrepreneurship, Tokyo, Japan
• Stéphanie Pin, Ph.D. in social sciences, community care advisor, Health and Social Affairs Department, canton de Vaud, Switzerland
• Meelan Thondo, Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, CB2 OSL Cambridge, UK; Scientific collaborator, Urban Planning, Environment, and Health Initiative, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), 08003 Barcelona, ES; Consultant, Urban Health Unit, Department of Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organisation, 1208 Geneva, CH
• Jean Simos, Prof. Environmental Health unit. Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Rachel Cooper