On 21 February 2019, Dr. Franz Gatzweiler, Executive Director of the Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme visits Guangzhou Award Secretariat and discusses how to build upon the recently-established partnership to promote excange in innovative development for urban health.

The Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme, hosted at the Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), aims at promoting and coordinating scientific networks and science-to-policy activities for putting health at the core of the New Urban Agenda and encouraging systems thinking and design for generating the co-benefits of a health-centered approach to urban innovation.