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Bringing together researchers, policy makers and the community to support urban health research development.
What is the Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI)?
Through research and partnership building, the Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI) is helping to create a better understanding of the impact of physical and social environments on the health of urban residents.
Located at the University of Toronto, CUHI fosters research development, collaboration and knowledge exchange between individuals committed to urban health, including academic and community researchers, community service providers, policy makers, and health practitioners.
Founded in 2004, and funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Population and Public Health, CUHI supports scholarship in relevant and emerging areas of urban health, focusing to date on neighbourhoods, food security & urban agriculture, physical environments, youth sexual health, chronic disease prevention & management, environmental health justice and policy pathways for equitable health and health care. The Centre brings together researchers from different disciplines, provides training and mentoring for research in urban health relationships, creates opportunities for knowledge exchange, and builds partnerships between researchers, policy-makers and communities.
In collaboration with the Wellesley Institute on a number of initiatives, CUHI brings policy makers, community partners and academics from many disciplines together to make great community-based urban health research happen – research that leads to improved public policy.
Our members reflect a diverse range of people working, researching, and concerned with urban health. CUHI provides an exciting opportunity for people committed to improving urban health to work together, share ideas, and make changes for the better in urban communities. Our stakeholder groups include: researchers, community organizations, policy makers and health practitioners.
