自然与生物多样性
Air pollution is killing millions — it’s time to hold ourselves accountable for the harm it causes
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of more than six million people — that figure is shocking and a tragedy.
Tolu Oni
Tolu Oni is a Public Health Physician Scientist and Urban Epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Clinical Professor of Global Public Health and Sustainable Urban Development. She is Founder & CEO of UrbanBetter (https://urbanbetter.science/), an Africa-led global practice, advocacy platform and learning collaborative with a mission to accelerate building of healthy climate resilient cities worldwide. UrbanBetter delivers
implementation partnerships for scalable youth-led citizen science-driven advocacy solutions
to increase demand for healthy cities and the meaniningful engagement of youth in urban
decision making. Underpinned by transdisciplinary research of its learning collaborative, UrbanBetter’s urban health
practice provides technical/strategic advisory and facilitation services, citizen science partnerships and
participatory mapping services to organisations working in/on cities to guide and align urban
design and development discourse, policy and practice for planetary health.
She also holds Honorary Professorships in Architecture at Future Africa, University of Pretoria and in Public Health at the University of Cape Town.
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城市转型
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深度地理
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教育与技能
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健康与医疗系统
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