Building a fairer future: Advancing health equity through impact investment

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HCD2025 moves to MediaCity, Salford

The 9th Healthy City Design 2025 (HCD 2025) International Congress, Awards & Exhibition is a global forum for the exchange of knowledge on the research, policy, practice and investment in designing healthy and sustainable cities and communities.

Now in its 9th year and set to be hosted at the iconic arts venue, the Lowry, MediaCity in Salford, Greater Manchester on 14–15 October 2025, the Congress is at the forefront of new knowledge and innovation.

As we build the cities of tomorrow, connecting investment to health as a foundation for economic and social development is critical for the future prosperity of communities where opportunities are available for all to thrive.

The Congress attracts researchers, practitioners, community voices, investors and policy makers from around the world committed to advancing health and health equity and sustainable development at the centre of the way we plan, develop and invest in our cities and communities.

Watch this page for updates, with the First Announcement and Call for Papers set to launch in late February 2025.

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2024 keynote and featured speakers

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Awards Programme

We're excited to announce the winners for the Healthy City Design 2024 Awards! Click below to learn more.

HCD2024 Awards Winners

Professor Matthew Ashton
HCD2023 was a fantastic couple of days, and it was really good to see the quality of work going on in Liverpool, the wider city region, and across the rest of the UK and further afield to truly embed good health and wellbeing within the wider housing, planning, and regeneration agenda. The quality of the speakers and level of engagement were exceptional. I look forward to continuing to engage with you as we support this incredibly important agenda locally and nationally.
Professor Matthew Ashton
Director of public health, Liverpool City Council, UK
Ruth Hynes
HCD2023 had a diversity of speakers and such a good range of those were from academia and industry. The focus on Liverpool provided a unique and highly informative aspect to the conference, highlighting universal themes but also the ability to learn from and discuss real examples and challenges.
Ruth Hynes
Associate design researcher, Atkins, UK
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Since last year, we’ve been delighted to also welcome Impact on Urban Health as our Community Impact Partner, a relationship that is rapidly evolving the congress to give communities a stronger voice. We hope for a bright future partnership. This year we also welcome TRUUD as our knowledge partner. TRUUD, which stands for Tackling Root Causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development’ has…

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