Setting global research priorities for urban health

Overview

By 2050, more than two thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas, presenting governments and city authorities with the daunting challenge of ensuring citizens have equitable access to safe and sustainable transport systems, green spaces, and healthy, sustainable living and working environments. To be able to meet this challenge, Member States and nongovernmental organizations have called on WHO to support implementation of effective multisectoral interventions to improve the health of urban residents. In response, WHO has developed the Urban Health Research Agenda (UHRA) – a set of global urban health research priorities for 2022–2032.