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The National #Infrastructure Commission published it's second 'National Infrastructure Assessment' a few weeks ago. It's available here: nic.org.uk/studies-report… It's a thorough report with lots of valuable insights & important recommendations. Some brief thoughts 🧵

The more international attention the case gets, the more likely the HO is to overturn it - please share if you can, international friends and colleagues

We want to know more about how professionals in urban development consider health when planning projects. From our initial research we know that dominant ways of thinking are a barrier to promoting healthier outcomes. To take part contact: [email protected]

Some great discussions in full flow at our workshop on #climate #adaptation. Register as a SWIP contributor to receive more information about the workshop & find out how you can get involved next time: …thwestinfrastructurepartnership.co.uk/joinu #infrastructure #southwest #collaboration

New paper out this week 📑 @MichaelCJChang with Neil Carhart RCallway in Journal of Planning Literature examines 344 local plans and their links to health needs, strategies and policies. 1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

"The National Planning Policy Framework requires planning policies to take into account identified local health needs" And yet only... 126 (36.4%) link to local health needs, 101 (29.2%) link to local health strategies, 129 (37.5%) have a health policy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

My new piece in The Conversation with Geoff Bates based on truud_research research. We outline ...the potential public health costs of cuts to The Labour Party £28bn pledge. ...the failure of the UK govt to embed public health in its housing policy. theconversation.com/labour-scaling…

New in our briefing collection from Neil Carhart and @pablo_newberry : Mapping health consideration and multi-sectoral interventions in the urban development decision-making system. How we understand system causes and co-design interventions. bit.ly/3UDR32g

We’ve been #SystemsMapping, using the language of #CausalLoopDiagrams, based on 123 interviews conducted by truud_research A simplified map looking at factors affecting health consideration within #UrbanDevelopment has been used to locate interventions TRUUD is co-developing.

*interested in digital twins? do you have spare 10 mins?* Take part in a consultation about ethics and digital twins. This survey is open to anyone working on digital twins in any capacity - development, marketing, research, policy etc. forms.office.com/pages/response…

My new piece for the IPR blog for the truud_research project. Can the silos be broken? Cross-government working for public health I discuss three strategies: bridging the silos, redisigning the silos, and decentralisation. blogs.bath.ac.uk/iprblog/2024/0…

New on the blog 📢 'A systems approach to local spatial planning' @MichaelCJChang explains how he is taking a close examination of local plans to help unravel the mystery of the current state of planning for health policy and practice. Neil Carhart bit.ly/3WeCh2M

Join the DAFNI webinar - 12th June - Uncertainty Quantification with Dr Francesca Pianosi 🌐 web.cvent.com/event/49cdd203…

New on the blogspot from Sarah Ayres stephen aldridge and Geoff Bates 'Taking a systems approach for creating healthy urban places to Westminster' explains the latest in our collaborative approach to promote health thinking across all policies. bit.ly/3WEqL0D

Could you help us evaluate mapping of relationships to improve our understanding of how health and planning considerations interact and could be influenced? 📋Take part in our short survey bit.ly/3AoBIL2 Neil Carhart @pablo_newberry Daniel Black

If you’re involved in #urban #planning or #PublicHealth & have 10-15 minutes to spare, please take a look at our survey. It will show pairs of factors relating to the consideration of health (identified from over 100 interviews) & ask you to assess the influence between them.

We took evidence from the real estate industry to illustrate how decisions about health for planning are influenced. New paper in Cities & Health out today applies a systems approach. bit.ly/47qWRjX

Foundations: Why Britain Has Stagnated. A new essay by Ben Southwood, Samuel Hughes & me. Why the UK's ban on investment in housing, infrastructure and energy is not just a problem. It is *the* problem. And how fixing it is the defining task of our generation. ukfoundations.co

Britain's productivity "puzzle"