Webinar
25th February : 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Over the last few years there has been an increase in specialist healthy places roles in local government. These roles are often based in Public Health or Planning teams but work across systems as part of Health in All Policies approaches. Recent PHIRST research into these types of roles in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc and East Sussex and Southampton demonstrate that they support efforts to promote healthy environments in local authority settings and are impactful agents of change, influencing policy, processes and people.
Join us for a discussion with three people experienced in hybrid public health and planning roles in English local authorities, sharing what it takes to make these posts happen and what they can deliver once in place.
We’ll be talking with:
Lourdes Madigasekera-Elliott Public Health Strategic Lead: Creating Healthy and Sustainable Places, East Sussex County Council
Lourdes is the public health strategic lead for Creating Healthy Places. She is responsible for addressing the environmental determinants of health, ecological public health, getting health into place and embedding Health, Environment and Sustainability in All Policies. Lourdes works to support population health management, to address health inequalities, social injustice, and environmental protection.
Dr David McAleavey Creating Active and Healthy Places Lead, Middlesbrough Council (Public Health South Tees)
David is a social biologist and public health spatial planning practitioner who works strategically across planning, transport planning and public health to shape environments that enable healthier, more equitable lives. His ongoing research explores the social and biological pathways through which inequalities become embedded in, and perpetuated by, the built environment.
Kim Wilson MRTPI Public Health Principal – Built Environment, Milton Keynes Council
Kim is a Public Health Principal specialising in Healthy Places and the Built Environment. She is a qualified town planner with over 30 years’ experience in Local Authority settings. Working in the shared Public Health Service for Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes, Kim leads work to integrate public health evidence into a range of disciplines, working across planning, transport, housing and environmental policy to support the creation of healthier, more equitable, and resilient places.
The webinar is aimed at anyone interested in enabling similar roles, as well as people who might be interested in taking them up. The session will cover: how health and planning roles can emerge; place-based outcomes they’ve helped achieve (from policy influence to culture change); and challenges and opportunities moving forwards.
This event is being held in collaboration with the Health & Wellbeing in Planning Network which aims to support practitioners working in the area of promoting health through planning and the built environment..
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