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.
Air pollution is a deadly problem that both causes and is exacerbated by climate change. We must hold ourselves accountable for the harm it is causing.
A new study has investigated how urbanisation increases the risks of non-communicable diseases, like heart disease and what cities can do to reduce risks.
Urban spaces amplify or reduce the health risks encountered in daily urban life, from access to healthy food and physical activity to clean air and water.
Pre-COVID barriers to collaboration in health and education systems have been set aside in pursuit of the bigger picture, aligning with many of the SDGs.
The damage we have done to our planet is exacerbating the spread and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic - but our collective response shows all is not lost.
From who can access HIV drugs to how we plan our cities, health challenges frequently overlap with policy. But all too often, we don’t have the right evidence to make informed decisions, ...
