2025 Themes

ICUH 2025 will center around five key themeatic areas, which reflect the truly interdisciplinary nature of urban health, and its integration with climate resilience, equity, and community wellbeing.

The conference program will offer an exciting combination of 100+ sessions and activities, including keynote and plenary moments, interactive workshops, dynamic speaking panels, compelling poster presentations, deep dives into case studies, cutting-edge research, unique site visits, evening socials, and more.

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Our Call for Papers is currently OPEN.

Deadline to Submit: May 17

By submitting your research, project, or initiative, you'll be at the forefront of urban health innovation, engaging with an interdisciplinary community of experts and changemakers. Submissions from Indigenous and Pacific Island communities, as well as those highlighting culturally informed and regionally specific approaches, are strongly encouraged.

THE ICUH 2025 THEMES

  • Theme 1: Healthy Built Environment: Building Equitable, Climate-Resilient Cities

    Explore the intersection of urban design, infrastructure and community inclusivity toward creating cities that foster well being and resilience.

  • Theme 2: Nourishing Landscapes: Natural Environments & Food Systems

    Focus on the role of food systems and natural landscapes in promoting health and mitigating and adapting to climate change impacts in urban settings.

  • Theme 3: Place Matters: Local & Cultural Insights for Urban Wellbeing

    Explore the power of place-based strategies in driving equitable urban health outcomes, addressing health disparities, and fostering inclusive, resilient communities.

    By leveraging local knowledge, cultural practices, and community-led initiatives, we can design urban solutions that directly address unique local challenges, ensuring more effective, equitable, and sustainable outcomes while enhancing community resilience, health and wellbeing.

  • Theme 4: Lifelong Wellness: Ensuring Inclusion for All in Urban Environments

    Examine how urban environments can support health and inclusion for all populations across the life course.

  • Theme 5: Regional Spotlight: Indigenous Solutions to Urban Health Challenges – Strategies, Rights, Actions & Experiences

    Highlight the vital contributions of Oceania Indigenous knowledge, including Māori, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples', and Pacific Islander worldviews, to shape urban health solutions rooted in place-based, holistic perspectives.

    Complementing these, Asian regional practices in sustainable development, community-driven health systems, and disaster resilience provide broader insights that address diverse urban challenges.

    Together, these inputs foster culturally grounded, locally informed strategies that promote equity and resilience across the Asia-Pacific region.

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