15.-16.10.2025, Dr. Boufford (NYU) visiting Hochschule Bochum

Within the framework of the research program “City of the Future – Healthy and sustainable metropolises”, Prof. Heike Köckler (University of Applied Sciences, Bochum, and Academy for Spatial Research and Planning/ARL) had invited Prof. Jo Ivey Boufford (New York University/School of Global Public Health, and International Society for Urban Health/ISUH) to give a guest lecture on the Health Campus Bochum and to locally collect impressions from urban and regional health activities.

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The visit took place 15-16 October 2025 in Bochum and Witten. On behalf of the research program’s advisory board, Heike Köckler (Bochum) and Rainer Fehr (Bielefeld/Hamburg) welcomed the guest. Dr. Boufford’s guest lecture “Urban Health: A Global Perspective” was preceded by visits to the city of Witten and to the NRW Landesamt für Gesundheit und Arbeitsschutz / NRW State Office for Health and Occupational Safety (LfGA). In Witten, on the occasion of this visit, Klaus Völkel as coordinator of “Healthy City Witten” had convened a group representing a variety of urban health activities. This involves “Health in All Policies” as well as the sustainability – health nexus. The meeting took place in the “B63” centre for urban culture. In the LfGA, Dr.s Odile Mekel and Thomas Claßen from the Division Health literacy and community health promotion presented on “Implementing Health in Planning in North Rhine-Westphalia – a long way to go”. [25-09]

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Cf.:

• 1 Sep 2025, Φ Inter-Academy Partnership & Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften: International Urban Health Summit (IUHS) report
• 9-11 Apr 2025, Φ♣ Hannover-Herrenhausen, InterAcademyPartnership (IAP) et al.: International Urban Health Summit (IUHS).