Building Healthy, Equitable Communities: The Role of Inclusive Urban Development and Investment

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AUTHORS
Ascala Sisk, Deputy Director, Center for Community Investment, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Odetta MacLeish-White, Managing Director, TransFormation Alliance; Vedette Gavin, Principle, Verge Impact Partners; Tamika Butler, Director, Equity and Inclusion and Director of CA Planning, Toole Design; Liz Ogbu, Founder + Principal, Studio O; Veronica O. Davis, P.E., Managing Partner, Nspiregreen LLC; Nupur Chaudhury, Program Officer, New York State Health Foundation, Urbanist in Residence, University of Orange; Sharon Roerty, Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Hanaa Hamdi, Director of Health Impact Investment Strategies and Partnerships, New Jersey Community Capital; Kelly Worden, Director, Health Research, U.S. Green Building Council; Noxolo Kabane, Deputy Director, Western Cape Department of Human Settlements; Shelly Poticha, Managing Director, Natural Resources Defense Council; and Hedzer Pathuis, Strategic Project Manager, City of Utrecht.

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Infrastructure, community development and equity are broad terms that can have diverse applications and meanings.  The uses of these terms for this program are defined here.

Community development: The United Nations defines community development as a “process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems.”   We will be reviewing activities that build stronger and more resilient communities through an ongoing process of identifying and addressing needs, assets, and priority investments. Community development activities may support infrastructure, economic development projects, installation of public facilities, community centers, housing rehabilitation, public services, clearance/acquisition, microenterprise assistance, code enforcement, homeowner assistance and many other identified needs. 

References to infrastructure include: transportation (access to public transportation, public transit pricing, alternatives to personal vehicle travel, public streets that are designed for all users); broadband (access to it, subsidies to support it); utilities including water and power (subsidies for low-income households, access to it, access to free and healthy drinking water in all community settings, lead abatement activities, and storm-water management); parks; housing; and mixed-use development.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) defines health equity as meaning that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be healthier. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care.

This program will bring together 60 innovators and stakeholders from around the world who have engaged citizens and communities in shaping their environments to support health and well-being. The group will span perspectives from citizen groups and civil society organizations; urban and rural design, planning and development; housing and transport; business and retail; public health and nutrition; sport, leisure and nature conservation; local government and participatory processes; central government; behavioral science and economics; education and culture; and the media.

This five-day highly-interactive program, held at Schloss Leopoldskron, home of Salzburg Global Seminar, will prioritize opportunities for cross-border sharing and learning. Participants will focus on building new insights and aggregating perspectives and experiences from relevant sectors, areas of expertise and regions. Working groups, each with a thematic and/or country focus, will prepare practical recommendations for action by different target audiences.

1. How can we leverage trends and opportunities in urban (and rural) revitalization with investments in infrastructure to focus on health, equity and the public good?
2. Are there key policy strategies or practices that support healthier and more equitable housing, transportation, utilities and park/open space systems?
3. How can we foster a shared sense of community in the built environment? Can that lead to infrastructure in the public interest? What role does culture play?
4. Can and how can citizen science and data be used to direct resources and promote equitable development?

• Seed new and innovative approaches through international and cross-border exchange and the transmission of best practice.
• Initiate networking and collaborations among participants and the institutions they represent.
• Co-create action plans designed and agreed by participants for them to take forward as appropriate at local and regional levels, and to leverage the global scope of the project to influence public opinion and democratic debate and policy making, through agenda-setting articles published as part of a media partnership with the British Medical Journal.