Upcoming Events

Birmingham City's Director of Public Health, Sally Burns, presented Cities@Heart at the 11th Global Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities (AFHC 2026) in Sydney, Australia. The conference ran from 1 to 3 September and marked 40 years since the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. WHO Alliance for Healthy Cities Conference The three-day conference was hosted by the UNSW Cities Institute and Healthy Cities Australia. It brought together mayors, policymakers, practitioner

From Safe Hearts to Healthy Cities: Cities@Heart Sets Out Its Approach at ESC Congress. Speaking on ESC TV Connect at this year's ESC Congress, Cities@Heart Project Director Dipak Kotecha, Industry Lead Franck Perraudin (Novartis), and Donna Fitzsimons, Professor of Nursing at Queen's University Belfast, set out how the project intends to turn the European Union's Safe Hearts Plan into practical change for Europe's cities. Adopted by the European Commission in December 2025,

Bringing Our Work to the Global Cardiology Community. The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress is the largest annual gathering of cardiovascular health professionals in the world, and this year, it brought together close to 34,000 participants in the field. Cities@Heart made its presence known. Over the course of the event in Munich, our team took part in a series of activities designed to strengthen the project internally and share our work with the wider cardiovas