These Three Cities Honored For Their Public Health Achievements
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Córdoba, Argentina, passed a new policy that will eliminate sugary and artificially-sweetened … More beverages and ultra-processed foods from all of their schools by 2026. (Photo: Getty) getty Yes, the world is becoming more city, as I’ve described before in Forbes. That’s city with a “c,” meaning an increasing percentage of the world’s population is living in urban settings. That means that cities are playing increasing roles in more and more people’s health. That role can be bad if cities allow pollution, crime, accidents and other health threats to grow. Or it can be good as evidenced by the three cities that earned the 2025 Partnership for Healthy Cities Awards given during the 2025 edition of the Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit held in March in Paris, France. The Partnership for Healthy Cities Network The Summit was co-hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the World Health Organization (WHO), Vital Strategies, and, of course, the City of Paris. It brought together mayors and officials from 61 different cities around the world that are already part of the Partnership for Healthy Cities network. Kelly Larson, MPH, who directs this Partnership for Bloomberg Philanthropies, indicated that this global network now has all told 74 cities. It was initially launched in 2017 and has steadily grown since. “The first step in joining this network is to have buy in from the mayor or the equivalent,” she explained. “It includes high, middle and low income cities.” She added, “We’ve identified specific non-communicable disease or injury issues that the cities can choose from to work on: tobacco, food policy, road safety, overdose prevention, pollution surveillance and most recently dealing with heat.” During the Summit the participants discussed the biggest public health issues facing cities and the world and how to, you know, actually do something about these issues…
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