Date: 26 to 29 September, 2007

Location:  Q1 Resort, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

About the alliance
The Alliance for Healthy Cities is an international network of cities, healthy communities and other allied organisations aimed at protecting and enhancing the health of city dwellers.

The alliance was initiated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and works to achieve this goal through an approach called Healthy Cities.

The Healthy Cities approach promotes programs to help cities cope with health and sustainable development issues that have emerged with urbanisation.

These issues range from population growth, adapting to climate change and degrading air and water quality to crowded housing, traffic congestion and disease prevention.
 

You can visit the The Alliance for Healthy Cities web site and see a full list of members.

Healthy Cities
The Healthy Cities approach is based on the concept that a social, economic and physical environment is the key to the health of city dwellers. The Healthy Cities program aims to cope with health issues that have emerged with urbanisation.

While urbanisation is underway at an alarming pace worldwide, urban health issues become complex and this complexity requires cooperation between the conventional health sector and non-health sectors. Healthy Cities is a global movement with networks established in all six WHO regions.

About the International Forum
The forum will provide an opportunity to meet with WHO representatives, Mayors and health professionals from throughout the region including Japan, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Australia and the Philippines.

The two day forum will host the annual Asia Pacific Regional Steering Committee meeting for the alliance and provide an opportunity for participants to interact and present keynote papers, workshops, dialogue and site visits on the health issues facing our cities including:

• the structural determinants of health
• state-of-the-art regional infrastructure planning
• future urban design and the growth of cities
• active and healthy cities programs
• climate change adaptation
• health impact assessment and hazardous pollution scenarios
• disaster management
• strategic health action planning and evaluation and methods of public health outcome reporting

Benefits for Councils  -  by Ann Bunnell who is a former Councillor of Townville City Council and Deputy Mayor for 19 Years.

Venue Details

Legends Hotel - perfectly located in the heart of Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast. Legends Hotel offers 403  guest rooms and suites with private balconies. Captivating views across the ocean, Gold Coast hinterland and the brilliant night lights of Surfers Paradise - it is only a three minute walk to the Forum meeting venue at Q1.

You can book your accommodation on the Forum registration form, and receive special delegates rates.