Healthy Cities in the SDG Era

In this final episode, we will look at the intersection between SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. The focus of SDG 11 is to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable while the focus of SDG 3 is to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Leonard Mwesigwa is a 2nd Year Ph.D. Student in Planning at the University of Toronto and a Founder/CEO of Inclusive Green Growth Uganda (IGGU), a...

SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy focuses on ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy.Marina Freire-Gormaly, Ph.D., EIT, LEED GA is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University. Her research focuses on the development of stand-alone solar-powered reverse osmosis water treatment systems and energy recovery systems for remote communities that lack access to grid electricity. She also is in...

SDG 14: Life Below Water focuses on conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. Hiliary Monteith is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto and a Registered Dietitian. Hilary's research focus is on diabetes prevention and maternal and infant health using community-based participatory research in partnership with an Indigenous community in Northwestern Ontario. Alongside community member...

Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals focuses on strengthening the means of implementation and revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development.Jillian Clare Kohler, PhD is a Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She is also the Founding Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Transparency and Accountability in the Pharmaceutical Sect...

Sustainable Development Goal: 12 Responsible Consumption and Production focuses on ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns. Quinn Grundy is a registered nurse and an Assistant Professor with the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto and a Faculty Associate with the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. She is a fellow with the WHO’s Collaborating Centre for Governance, Accountability, and Tr...

Sustainable Development Goal 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions focuses on promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all and building effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.Dr. Ross Upshur is currently the Dalla Lana Chair in Clinical Public Health and Head of the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Scientific Director, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Resear...

Sustainable Development Goal : 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure focuses on building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation.Dan Breznitz, is a University Professor and Munk Chair of Innovation Studies, in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy with a cross-appointment in the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto, where he is also the Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab. In addi...

Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, focuses on promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. Professor Ito Peng is a Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. Her research and teaching focuses on gender, migration and care policies, and comparative welfare states. She has written extensively on social policies and political econ...

Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, focuses on ensuring access to water and sanitation for all.Professor David Meyer completed his PhD and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT and is an alumnus of Engineering Science (Energy Option) at U of T. Before his graduate studies, David worked for Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB) in Ghana and for a engineering consulting firm called HydraTek in Toronto. His research focuses on urban water distribution infrastructure, an...

SDG 15: Life on Land, focuses on sustainable management of forests, combatting desertification, halting and reversing land degradation, and halting biodiversity loss. In this episode, Ophelia Michaelides speaks to two researchers that are working towards improving our understanding of zoonotic diseases, or, diseases transmitted between animals and humans. Discussions focus on unpacking what zoonotic diseases are; how social and environmental factors impact their spread; and the actions w...