ICUH 2024: A Healthier Horizon: Activating Urban Health Strategies for a Climate: Directory

Welcome to ICUH 2024!

Featured Speakers

Karabi Acharya, ScD

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Senior Director

Tolullah Oni, MPH, PhD

University of Cambridge & UrbanBetter

Clinical Professor of Global Public Health and Sustainable...

Samy Ahmar

Save the Children UK

Head of Global Health

Leslie Rubin, MD

Morehouse School of Medicine

Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics

Robert C Hughes, MD, MPH

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Population Health

Angelina Uzor

Tennessee Department of Health

Environmental Epidemiologist

Cathryn Tonne

Barcelona Institute for Global Health

Research Professor

Rachel Huxley

Wellcome Trust

Head of Mitigation for Climate and Health

Carlos Moreno

IAE Paris - Sorbonne University

Associate Professor

Graham Alabaster

UN-Habitat, Focal point WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Director

Fofana Diakaridia, PhD

Anti-Vectorial Control at the National Institute of Public Health (INHP), Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene, and Universal Health Coverage in Côte d'Ivoire

Deputy Head

Sarah Ruel-Bergeron

International Society for Urban Health

Director of Strategic Initiatives & Healthy Housing

José Luis Castro

World Health Organization

Director-General Special Envoy for Chronic Respiratory Diseases

Nathalie Roebbel

World Health Organization

Unit Head, Urban Health

Rachid Wahabi

Environmental Health Division, Health and Health Protection Ministry of the Kingdom of Morocco.

Chief

Mamka Anyona, DrPH

United Nations’ Health4Life Fund

Lead for Policy, Strategy and Operations

Abdellatif Bouazza, PhD

Mohammed V University

Professor and Researcher

Goodson Shalubala

The University of Zambia

Postgraduate Researcher on Environmental Health

Sindhu Ravishankar, MPhil

Fast Track Cities

Vice President of Global Health Strategies

Elvis García, DrPH

Takeda

Director Global Vaccines Public Affairs, Partnerships and Access

Claver Adjobi

Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Doctoral Student

Emilia Carrera, MPH

The Rockefeller Foundation

Director in Health

Omaima Khalil El Fanne, PhD

Youth For Climate Morocco

President and CEO

Jo Ivey Boufford, MD

International Society for Urban Health

Board

Jo Jewell

Novo Nordisk

Head of Obesity Health Equity

Francoise Schaetzel, MD

Eurometropolis of Strasbourg

Deputy President

Carlos Dora, MD, PhD

International Society for Urban Health

Board Vice Chair

Jeffrey L. Sturchio, PhD

International Society for Urban Health

Chairman

Carolyn Daher, MPH

Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain

Coordinator Urban Planning and Health

Waleska Caiaffa, MD, MPH, PhD

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Professor

Oumaima El Idrissi

City Council of Casablanca

Member's of Mayor's Cabinet, City Councillor of Casablanca and Vice...

Waziri Mainasara

UrbanBetter Lagos Cityzens Hub

Coordinator

Fatna El Khiel, MD

Minister of National Land Use Planning, Urban Development, Housing and City Policy

Secretary of State

Emeka Iloegbu, MPH

World Federation of Public Health Associations

NY Representative

Jean Kaseya, MD

AfricaCDC

Director General or Coordinator of North Africa Regional Center

Fatima-Zahra El Mansouri

Marrakesh and National Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and Urban Policy

Mayor and Minister

Giselle Sebag, MPH

International Society for Urban Health

Executive Director

Sinah Magolo

The Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo

Environmental Education Manager

Francisco Obando

World Health Organization (WHO)

Consultant - Strengthening Capacities for Urban Health

Julian A. Macrone

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Community Development Specialist

Anacláudia Rossbach

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Executive Director

Kate Murphy

University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Programme Manager for the MBIE Endeavour

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD

World Health Organization (WHO)

Director-General

Christelle Lahoud

UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)

Programme Management Officer

Joy Mutai

UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)

Associate Programme Management Officer

Speakers

Sammila Abdala

Université Mohammed VI des Sciences et de la Santé

PhD candidate

Anna Abenhaim

ISUH

Partnerships, Outreach & Communications

Imane Achemlal

City of Agadir, Agadir, Morocco

Head of Infrastructure Division, Eng., PhD

Deepti Adlakha

Delft University of Technology

Associate Professor

Farhana Afroz

Brac

Project Lead for Bangladesh and Regional Lead for GESI, USAID-Asia...

Shahin Akter

Eminence Associates for Social Development, Bangladesh

Tamara Al-Obaidi

UTS, Sydney, Australia

Chartered environmental health professional and PhD candidate

Wafa Alam

James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Early career researcher

Dr. Saira Ali

Bradford Council

Team Leader for Landscape, Design and Conservation

Darell Katherine Ruiz Alvarez

Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen Lippe - Detmold School of Design

Research assistant - Department of Urban Planning & Urban Design

Teresa Amato, MD

Northwell Health

VP, Clinical Sustainability and Resource Stewardship

Micaela Arthur

Special Populations, US Agency for International Development, Asia Bureau Office of Technical Services

Senior Health Advisor

Soufiyan Bahetta

Fondation Mohammed VI pour la Protection de l'Environnement

Climate Consultant

Alsa Bakhtawar

JSI Research & Training Institute

Regional Facilitator

Laura Baldovino-Chiquillo

School of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Nawal Benabdallah

International University of Rabat

Professor & Researcher

Rouve Bingle

Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Postdoc Fellow

Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah

University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

Professor

Elis Borde

Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)/ OSUBH

Abdelghani Bouaichi

City of Agadir, Agadir, Morocco

Agadir City VP, in charge of Quality of Life, Eng., PhD

Brajesh Brajesh

Dept of Statistics, K. C. College, MUMBAI, India

Matthias Braubach

WHO European Center for Environment and Health, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Bonn, Germany

Technical Officer Urban Health and Equity

Andréanne Chu Breton-Carbonneau

Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ), Spain

Hector Antonio Vazquez Brust

Fundacion Bunge y Born, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sr. Fellow

Camilla Calamandrei

Rolling River Films - ISUH ACE

Storytelling and Content Development

Brahim Chana

Rabat Animation et Développement

Director

Ms. Fadoua Chergaoui

Urban X, Agadir, Morocco

Prpject Manager, Eng.

Vitor Pessoa Colombo

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland

Daniel Velazquez Cortes

ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain

Predoctoral researcher

Robin Cox

acitymadebypeople.com

Cultural explorer/ photographer/ city enthusiast

Utpal Kumar Das

Officer- MERL & Communications, Asia Resilient Cities

BRAC, Khulna, Bangladesh

Julia Day

Gehl, New York, USA

Partner & Team Director

El Bachir DIOP

Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

Researcher

Carey Duncan

Carey Duncan Design / IFLA AFRICA

Owner / Executive committee member

Georgia Dyer

Barcelona Institute for Global Health

Predoctoral researcher

Mariangelí Echevarría-Ramos

Mystic River Watershed Association, USA Resilient Mystic Collaborative, USA

Salma Mohamed Mahmoud Elshafie

UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)

Claudiu Forgaci

TU Delft, Netherlands

Assistant Professor

Angela Freitas

University of Coimbra PT

Geographer. Urban health researcher

Ibrahim Gandi

Centre for Dialogue on Human Settlement and Poverty Alleviation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Community development professional

Lina María Gómez-García

School of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Ty Greene

Novo Nordisk

Global Project Lead, Obesity Health Equity

Elizabeth Greig

University of Miami, Global Institute

Director

Hannah Grove

Global Centre on Healthcare & Urbanisation, Kellogg College, University of Oxford

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Pallavi Gupta

JSI Research & Training Institute

Project Director

Rajae Haissouss

UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)

Louise Hesseldal

Health Equity Cities for Better Health, Copenhagen, Denmark

Global Project Lead

Carl Higgs

RMIT University

Research Fellow, School of GUSS

Dr. Loren Hopkins

Rice University and Chief Environmental Officer, City of Houston

Jessica Huang

Zimba Water / World Bank

Co-Founder / Consultant

Tamara Iungman

Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

Smruti Jukur

Society for the Promotion of Areas Resource Centers, Mumbau, India

Community development professional and doctoral student

Caroline Kabaria

African Population & Health Research Center

Researcher

Melda Karademir

Demir Enerji Consulting, Istanbul, Turkey

Sustainable Consultant, PhD

Jiban Karki

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom. PHASE Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Mid-career researcher

Mehdi Karkouri

Association de Lutte Contre le Sida

President

Robinson Karuga

LVCT Health

Head of Research, Evalaution and Learning

Fatema Kashfi

ARK Foundation, Bangladesh

Research Associate

Shoshanna Kasle, DrPH

International Society for Urban Health (ISUH)

Director of Strategy and Operations

Kenza Khallafi

La Fondation Mohammed VI pour la Protection de l'Environnement

Climate Consultant

Louise Kielgast

Gehl Architects

Portfolio Director of Urban Health

Hyung-Tae Kim

World Health Organization (WHO)

Technical Officer - Urban Health

Milka Kori

Slum Dwellers International,Kenya (SDI-K)

Urban development practitioner

Nilesh Kumar

William H. Gates Sr. Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA

Fatima Zahra Laaribi

High Atlas Foundation

Lead Psychosocial Empowerment Trainer

Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) Doctor Aiguader, 88 08003 Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain, Spai

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