The SMART Training Platform & Guelph Family Health Study presents
Smart Healthy Cities: A framework for Sustainable Urban Health with Dr. Haejoo Chung
The SMART Training Platform & the Guelph Family Health Study Team are excited to announce a distinguished speaker presentation. We welcome Dr. Haejoo Chung from Korea University to talk about designing smart, healthy cities.
This event is offered in a hybrid format. You can register for online participation via the link below or join us in person at the University of Guelph Campus, Food Science Room 146. For those attending in person, coffee, tea, and snacks will available starting at 11:30am.
Event details:
- Date: December 4th, 2024
- Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm
- Location: University of Guelph, Food Science Room 146 or register for zoom below.
Agenda:
11:30am- 12:00 pm: Coffee & Chat- Complimentary coffee, tea, and snacks with speaker
12:00pm- 1:00pm: Smart Healthy Cities: A framework for Sustainable Urban Health with Dr. Haejoo Chung
Please see the link below to register for virtual zoom event :
About the talk:
The presentation outlines a framework for Smart Healthy Cities (SHCs) that integrates traditional urban health approaches with smart technology across four key dimensions: Smart Networking, Healthy Environment, Socially Sustainable, and Health Empowering Cities. Based on concept analysis and mapping research, the framework emphasizes collaborative governance, adaptive infrastructure, and person-centered services while balancing technological innovation with social sustainability and health equity.
About Dr. Haejoo Chung
Professor, Health and Social Policy, Korea University
Dr. Haejoo Chung is a Professor in Health and Social Policy, Director of BK21FOUR R&E Center for Learning Health Systems and Vice-Director of Institute of Sustainable Development at Korea University.
Dr. Haejoo Chung earned her PhD in Health and Social Policy from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was a CIHR IHSPR Post-Doctoral Trainee at University of Toronto. Her research focuses on health and social policies’ impact on health inequity and on strategies for innovating community care policies. Her recent research focuses on designing Smart Healthy Cities, integrating population-level healthy cities strategies with smart technologies, while supporting a health and social care economy that supports care workers and care recipients.