TRUUD

Project details

Full project title: Tackling Root Causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development (TRUUD)

Duration: 1 July 2023-30 June 2025

Funded by: Multi-funded including

• British Heart Foundation
• Cancer Research UK
• Chief Scientist Office
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
• Health and Care Research Wales
• Public Health Agency
• Medical Research Council
• National Environment Research Council
• National Institute for Health Research
• The Health Foundation
• The Wellcome Trust

Project team: 

• Real Estate Intervention
• Professor Kathy Pain, University of Reading (Principal Investigator)
• Dr Nalumino Akakandelwa, UWE Bristol (Co-Investigator)

• University of Bristol
• University of Bath
• University of Manchester
• University of Stirling
• Bristol City Council
• Greater Manchester Combined Authority
• Transport for Greater Manchester
  
   

Project summary

Our urban environment impacts our health and wellbeing. Links have been found between non-communicable diseases such as type-2 diabetes, heart disease and poor mental health and where we live.

The project, which was initiated in 2018, is collecting evidence and designing tools and interventions with industry, government and communities to help prioritise health in our urban planning and development.

The UWE Bristol Co-Investigator is on secondment to the University of Reading Real Estate and Planning, which is the lead on the Real Estate Intervention, one of the seven interventions. The intervention aims to:

• promote the incorporation of health considerations in property investment and land development processes.
• explore with knowledgeable stakeholders how health and wellbeing indicators can be incorporated, alongside other ESG data, in property portfolio management and financial investment risk appraisal.
• further the inclusion of health elements in local planning design code guidance for land development, and potential extension to local economic strategy.

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