Philippa Howden-Chapman PhD, is visiting faculty at NYU College of Global Public Health will be presenting on Tuesday, May 7th, as part of an urban health miniseries hosted by global health. During her lecture, Professor Howden-Chapman will discuss the World Health Organization’s adoption of the Housing and Health Guidelines as a basis for international standards in household crowding, indoor temperatures and insulation, injury reduction and accessibility. This talk will outline the guidelines and their implementation in New Zealand, highlighting how they have provided the evidence for the incoming Labour Coalition Government’s Healthy Homes Guarantee Act and are setting the standards for a neighbourhood renewal project in a suburb of Wellington, NZ. In partnership with the Wainuiomata Marae Trust, Housing NZ and an energy company, 35 new energy efficient houses are being built around the marae (meeting place) and will form part of a smart-grid linked to the main grid, with the aim of increasing social inclusion and reducing energy poverty.
Professor Howden-Chapman is a professor of public health at the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand. She is research co-director of He Kainga Oranga/ Housing and Health Research Programme and director of the NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities where her team provides evidence to inform housing, health, safety and energy policy. Their work focuses on reducing inequalities in the determinants of health and wellbeing and they have received a number of awards, including the Prime Minister’s Science Team Prize. Previously, she was chair of the WHO Housing and Health International Guidelines Development Group. She is currently chair of the International Science Committee on Urban Health and Wellbeing: a systems approach, a member of the Board of Housing New Zealand and a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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