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Welcome to a new episode of Healing Futures, part of the Urban Health Council. This conversation is between neuroscientist and health activist Araceli Camargo, data ethics and facilitator Daniel Akinola-Odusola, and medical student and climate campaigner Amit Singh. It is based on a body of work being produced within the Urban Health Council on what it means for children to grow up in states of crisis. This project is not intended to alarm, but to put the child to old age health trajectory into the context of planetary dysregulation and its secondary effects. Currently, children are experiencing multiple stressors or pathways of poor health; forced displacement, family separation, pollution of water, land, and air, acute weather events, malnutrition, poverty, and a global pandemic that is causing long term effects. In June 2022 the Urban Health Council put out the following work [https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/growing-up-in-crisis] and through 2023 the Urban Health Council has been c

“I am the extension of my territory, that’s healing” - Angela Camacho -------------------------------------------------------- Healing Imaginations is project that provides a time and space to Peoples to think about healing. In time this space will turn into a robust digital library of healing practices rooted in Kinship and Solidarity. You can read more about this project and the contributions from amazing, beautiful, and liberating voices from across the world at healingimaginations.org. For this audio conversation we’re welcoming La Bonita Chola Angela Camacho. Angela is a community organiser of Indigenous Aymara-Quechua Peoples. An Ancestor in the making. Angela's details https://linktr.ee/thebonitachola https://www.instagram.com/thebonitachola/ https://twitter.com/TheBonitaCholaa Centric Lab details https://www.healingimaginations.org/ https://www.thecentriclab.com/ https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab

"Every time we take a breath, we really must be grateful to these microbial life forms. They've produced the oxygen, allowing us to breathe" Dr. Jake Robinson -------------------------------------------------------- Healing Imaginations is project that provides a time and space to Peoples to think about healing.  In time this space will turn into a robust digital library of healing practices rooted in Kinship and Solidarity with the Great Cosmic Energy and all Earthly siblings. You can read more about this project and the contributions from amazing, beautiful, and liberating voices from across the world at healingimaginations.org. For this audio conversation we would like to welcome microbial ecologist Jake Robinson to Healing Imaginations. He will be guiding us to the tiny and yet abundant world of microbes. We will learn about how they heal us and the planet as well as why they are our "Invisible Friends". Jake also has a wonderful and expansive book about the microbial world called "Invisible

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice. As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines *Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural. **The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges. --- Welcome to chapter 4, where Josh will open up with highlighting how “Right To Pollute” policies contribute to Planetary Dysregulation. This will then be followed by Rhian

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice. As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines *Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural. **The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges. --- This episode will open with Rhiannon who will be discussing how the system of capitalism affects our health systems. The section will end with Araceli describing how the

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice. As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines *Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural. **The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges. --- In this episode, Guppi will be covering the epistemologies of supremacy and how they are used to imagine policies, understandings of health, and economies. This will be f

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice. As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines *Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural. **The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges. --- In this episode, Araceli Camargo will be providing a working definition of health, breaking down the factors of planetary dysregulation and the physiological links to hea

Sarah Le Brocq is a person living with obesity and is the founder of All About Obesity http://allaboutobesity.org, is a Director & Lay Member at NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and member of the All Party Parliamentary Group of Obesity in the UK. Charlotte Kemp sat down with her to speak on her experience with the disease as well as how she is moving towards health justice. To read more about our work on chronic disease and urban living please go to www.urbanhealthcouncil.com Please consider supporting the non-profit Urban Health Council via our Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/centriclab

Welcome to our first audio report as part of the Healing Futures programme This is a discussion on the history of disease, part research and part discussion, between Araceli Camargo, Elahi Hossain, Hannah Yu-Pearson, and Rhiannon Osborne. When we look at the history of human health and disease, research suggests there have been three epidemiological transitions - that is, changes in the patterns of death and disease - across the human timeline. + The first transition was the age of pestilence and famine - this occurred around 10,000 years as human societies moved away from a nomadic, hunter gatherer lifestyle to embrace the agricultural revolution and form agrarian societies. + The second transition was the age of receding pandemic - which occurred in tandem with the industrial revolution. + The third transition is the age of degenerative and human-made diseases and ageing populations which we are currently within. And what's becoming clearer is that our modern environments are not suited to our biologica

Welcome to a new series on the City Centric channel: Healing Futures. Healing Futures are various futures created by all Peoples in Kinship with Nature for equitable access to various healing practices and knowledges. We launch with Amit Singh, a medical student and climate justice advocate, he is also part of the Punjabi community. All of these factors contribute to how he frames health, healing, and justice. We sat down with him for a long conversation on ecological health which is our Urban Health Council research theme for Q1 2022. We cover the Indian Farmers protest, the role of love in healing, and the sacred nature of water. If you liked this podcast please consider supporting it via our Patreon: www.patreon.com/centriclab Do check out the report on Ecological Health at https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/health-as-ecological.

Delighted to Andrew Grieve & Kayla Schulte from Breathe London onto the show to discuss community ownership of air pollution monitoring, collection and research design. Andrew's interests lie at the intersection of emerging digital technologies and air quality communication. He is the Senior Air Quality Analyst for Breathe London based at School of Public Health at Imperial University, London. Kayla is an environmental social scientist. This involves researching and communicating my findings on how humans build knowledge about the environment/nature through engagements in digital space (ex. the internet, apps, internet-connected tech, smart sensors). Please visit https://www.breathelondon.org/apply to learn more about the programme they're running for communities in London to access monitoring devices. Kayla's Twitter: https://twitter.com/kaylloquial Andrew's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndyGrieveAir As ever, please consider supporting the production of these podcasts through our Patreon page patreon.c

Episode #5 of (slightly more than) 15 Minutes with features architect turned good client real estate developer Martin Prince-Parrott. Martin is an award-winning Architect and Development Director for SUB\URBAN WORKSHOP. An innovative ESG led developer + consultancy. Martin believes that property should enrich lives. He enthuses his projects with these ideas as well as advocates for them. As a result he has earned local + national recognition; Locally he was recognised as a, Birmingham Young Professional of the Year; Nationally he was recognised by PropertyWeek as a Resi Trailblazer and by EG as a Rising Star. Martin's details are: https://twitter.com/MPrinParr https://www.wearesuburbanworkshop.com/ 3 Peers mentioned in the show: Alex Notay - https://twitter.com/aknotay Ben Cross - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-cross-aa138131/ Phil Sturgeon - https://twitter.com/philsturgeon If this is your first time listening to the series please consider supporting it via patreon.com/centriclab

This episode is a conversation between Centric’s Araceli Camargo and Juwairia Rafique Quazi & Suwen Chen, both PhD candidates at University of Edinburgh on how they see equitable engagement with communities as researchers and practitioners. Juwairia Rafique Quazi is a PhD candidate in Global Health at the University of Edinburgh and is the co-founder of the Planetary Health Lab - https://www.planetaryhealthlab.com/ Suwen Chen is a PhD candidate in Impact Investing at the University of Edinburgh - https://www.suwen-chen.com/aboutme This conversation is part out the Urban Health Council’s latest stream of work on Communities, Lived Experience & Health. Two reports on this topic have been produced which are open to be read online at urbanhealthcouncil.com. Please do go check them out after this conversation if you haven’t already.

This episode is a conversation between Centric’s Araceli Camargo and Prof Ilan Kelman, of University College London on how he sees equitable engagement with communities as researchers and practitioners. Ilan is a Professor of Disasters and Health, researching islands, disasters, health, migration, inclusivity, polar areas, development, and sustainability (all including climate change). @ILANKELMAN on Twitter and Instagram. This conversation is part out the Urban Health Council’s latest stream of work on Communities, Lived Experience & Health. Two reports on this topic have been produced which are open to be read online at urbanhealthcouncil.com. Please do go check them out after this conversation if you haven’t already.

Episode 4 is with Professor Nick Tyler CBE of University College London. Nick Tyler is the Director of the UCL Centre for Transport Studies and Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, and investigates the ways in which people interact with their immediate environments. He is involved in projects in several countries in Latin America, Japan, China and continental Europe, as well as in London and elsewhere in the UK. He is also a Co-Director in the Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Training Programme on the Ecological Brain, where he works with neuroscientists, psychologists, architects, computer vision, education and data analysts to create a multidisciplinary programme to discover how people navigate in the urban environment. Links from the show: http://www.dementia-friendly-japan.jp/en/author/makoto-okada/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-frye-3267653 https://spierslab.com/ https://www.pearl.place/ Nick's Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickTyler4 If you enjoyed this show please consider supporting future producti

Episode #3 of 15 Minutes With features architect and founder of Matter Architecture, an award winning London based architecture practice. A big focus of Matter Architecture's work is research, which has drawn them to join the Urban Health Council. Roland has more than 20 years experience working as an Architect, an urban designer and as a public sector client. He also teaches and researches part-time at the University of East London. In 2017 he led a project with the Ministry of Justice to improve prison design for wellbeing which won an RIBA President's award for research. He is also a Design Council CABE Built Environment Expert, a High Streets Task Force Expert, a member of several design review panels, and a member of the RIBA Planning Advisory Group. We hope you enjoy listening to Roland. Links from the show: http://rachelaldred.org/ https://www.powertochange.org.uk/the-team/vidhya-alakeson/ https://drmm.co.uk/people/sadie-morgan/ https://www.blackcyclistsnetwork.cc/race-squad/mania/ https://www.lin

Episode #2 is with Becka Hudson, a doctoral researcher and campaigner around issues related to criminal justice institutions, racism and inequality based in London. Becka is currently an Associate of the End Solitary Confinement campaign, and have previously worked as Lead Coordinator at the Radical Housing Network, co-founder of the Reclaim Holloway Coalition, Communications Consultant at the 4Front Project, lead of the Free Drill campaign and co-founder of cultural activist networks for young people, including 'Fck Boris' and 'Grime4Corbyn'. Links from the show: 3 Peers Dalia Gebrial - https://twitter.com/daliagebrial Temi Mwale - https://twitter.com/temimwale Abolitionist Futures - https://twitter.com/ReclaimJustice / https://abolitionistfutures.com/ 11 Too Many - https://twitter.com/hashtag/11TooMany About Centric Lab Centric is a neuroscience research lab and consultancy working to improve Public Health. Being independent and citizen focused means that we are able to guide our science outside the infl

15 minutes with [ ] is a new series interviewing members from the Urban Health Council about their work. Episode #1 is with Jake Heitland, Commercial Manager & Urban Strategist at Lendlease. Originally from small-town Wisconsin Jake landed in London a few years ago and supports multi-disciplinary teams to apply new models of thinking and working to large urban regeneration projects in the UK that have health, climate and equity at their core. Links from the show: 3 Peers Indy Johar - https://twitter.com/indy_johar Choked Up - https://twitter.com/chokedup_uk Rosamond Adoo-Kissi Debrah - http://ellaroberta.org/ Other Loneliness Lab - https://www.lonelinesslab.org/ Write to the City - https://www.instagram.com/writetothecity/ Jake's Twitter - https://twitter.com/JakeHeitland Centric is a neuroscience research lab and consultancy working to improve Public Health. We are a citizen funded lab, which means that we are able to guide our science outside the influence of governing bodies. If you would like to be

This episode is the 3rd of a 3-part mini series recorded with 3 medical students from University College London on Covid-19 and the vaccine process. The vaccine has been a disputed and politicised issue, and to our belief this could have been avoided with better communication, better relationships with medicine and decolonised frameworks of healthcare. This episode discusses the need for informed consent to become more prevalent in healthcare. Informed consent means 'permission granted in full knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.' This episode discusses the failures of the current system in relation to past ignorances and why there are lags in healthcare treatment. Our 3 brilliant speakers who gave their time were Selina Aziz Meryam Benaichouche Manasvini Moni Centric Lab is an independent health research lab specialising in neursoscience that create solutions to population health pr

This episode is the second of a 3-part mini series recorded with 3 medical students from University College London on Covid-19 and the vaccine process. The vaccine has been a disputed and politicised issue, and to our belief this could have been avoided with better communication, better relationships with medicine and decolonised frameworks of healthcare. This episode discusses the intellectual, social and practical needs in decolonising healthcare in the 'west'. Our 3 brilliant speakers who gave their time were Selina Aziz Meryam Benaichouche Manasvini Moni Centric Lab is an independent health research lab specialising in neursoscience that create solutions to population health problems. We hope you enjoy this show and if you believe in supporting independent research like it that's free from politics and prejudice please become a Patreon supporter for the price of a fancy coffee per month - www.patreon.com/centriclab