Programme and presentations of the Basel Conference
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Wednesday, 13 September 2017
City Health International
9:00 - 9:15
Opening: Opening
 
Head of the Department of Public Health of the Canton Basel-Stadt
Presenter
Lukas Engelberger
Switzerland
 
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Presenter
Carlo Fabian
Switzerland
Chair
Gerry Stimson
UK
9:15 - 10:30
Plenary 1: The Urban Health Landscape - getting citizens politically engaged Video
Presenter
Geoff Gallop
Australia
‘Deliberative Democracy’ - new forms of engagement to find the public interest
PDF Video
Presenter
Ingrid van Beek
Australia
Reaching out and engaging marginalised key populations in urban health services: lessons from HCV treatment in Sydney
PDF Video
Presenter
Tetyana Deshko
Ukraine
Fast-tracking municipal health responses for vulnerable populations - examples from Central and Eastern Europe
PDF Video
Chair
Gerry Stimson
UK
11:00 - 12:30
Plenary 2: Urban Health and Well-being - how we use space and encourage an active approach in communities
Presenter
Gabriela Muri
Switzerland
Making open spaces attractive and useful settings for physical activities across generations in everyday life
PDF Video
Presneter
Martin Knöll
Germany
Innovative GIS based approaches for healthy city planning
PDF Video
Presenter
Lukas Zahner Lars Donath
Switzerland
A journey on research-driven physical activity and exercise promotion across lifespan in Basel
PDF Video
Chair
Holger Schmid
Germany
12:30 - 13:30
Foyer
Break: Lunch Break and Poster Session
13:30 - 15:00
Parallel 1: ‘The roof over my head’. Homelessness and urban health – Is stable accommodation key?
Presenter
Dalma Fabian
Belgium
Home, health and well-being for all: bridging sectors to solve homelessness – the European perspective
PDF
Presenter
Emmanuel Cornelius and Stephanie Sorvillo
Luxemburg
Housing and Homelessness in Luxemburg – what can we learn from local and national strategies dealing with homelessness?
PDF
Presenter
Matthias Drilling Joerg Dittmann
Switzerland
New forms of homelessness and new responsibilities? - Homelessness in Switzerland
PDF
Chair
Matthias Drilling and Joerg Dittmann
Switzerland
13:30 - 15:00
Parallel 2: Active urban environments and impacts on populations’ health and well-being
Presenter
Thomas Götschi
Switzerland
PASTA: A longitudinal study on active travel and physical activity in seven European Cities
PDF
Presenter
Sonja Kahlmeier
Switzerland
Urban Active Environments – shared learning and co-production from the EU SPAcE
PDF
Presenter
Radu Colt
Romania
Development of an Urban Active Environment Action Plan: A case study of Brasov (Romania) from the EU SPAcE project
PDF
Presenter
Pantelis Skayannis
Greece
Development of an Urban Active Environment Action Plan: A case study of Trikala, Greece from the EU SPAcE project.
PDF
Chair
Sonja Kahlmeier
13:30 - 15:00
Parallel 3: Cannabis use, prohibition or regulation: challenges for urban health and well-being
Presenter
Tom Decorte
Belgium
Cannabis under control: Cannabis social clubs as a regulated, non-profit model on the local level
PDF
Presenter
Rebecca Jessemann
Canada
Developing Cannabis Regulation in Canada: From Federal Policy to Local Implementation
PDF
Presenter
Rolin Wavre
Switzerland
Cannabis regulation in Swiss cities: challenges for urban health and well-being
Chair
Barbara Broers
Switzerland
15:00 - 15:30
Foyer
Break: Lunch Break
15:30 - 17:00
Parralel 4: Creating ‘agefriendly’ cities: challenges of increased life-expectancy for urban health
Presenter
Rita Gisler
Switzerland
Old-age policy in Swiss cities
Presenter
Bettina Hübscher
Switzerland
Successes and challenges of the old age policy in Luzern
Presenter
Pierre-André Junod
Switzerland
Municipal policy for the benefit of senior citizens in Yverdonles-Bains
PDF
Chair
Manon Delisle Marius Beerli
15:30 - 17:00
Parallel 5: Working with nature and the environment to improve urban health and well-being
Presenter
Juho Rajaniemi
Finland
How green is green? Using open land cover databases in the search for potentially healthy neighbourhoods from the immunological point of view
PDF
Presenter
Michelle Baybutt
UK
Sustainable Health and Justice – Connecting Nature, Wellbeing and Inclusion
PDF
Presenter
Aki Sinkkonen
Finland
From green infrastructure at kindergarten yards to microbiome and human immune response – do active nature contacts really matter?
PDF
Presenter
Alan Farrier
UK
A model for community-based sustainable food growing: evaluation findings
PDF
Chair
Jim McVeigh
UK
15:30 - 17:00
Parallel 6: Assessing, promoting and implementing physical activity and fitness in Basel-Stadt: A research driven translational approach between players from university, cantonal and community levels
Presenter
Debora Wick Lukas Zahner and Alice Minghetti
Switzerland
Intergenerational approaches for physical activity and exercise
PDF
Presenter
Lars Donath
Switzerland
Early motor skill promotion in the kindergarten setting: The “Burzelbaum” concept of Basel
PDF
Presenter
Katharina Endes
Switzerland
Monitoring of physical fitness of all first grade schoolchildren in Basel-Stadt – the Sportcheck
PDF
Chair
Lukas Zahner and Lars Donath
Switzerland
17:00 - 18:00
Reception: Drinks reception
Thursday, 14 September 2017
9:00 - 10:20
Parallel 7: Dealing with hazards and nuisance to improve urban health and well-being
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Florian Scheibein
Ireland
Learning from litter: using geomapping of drug litter as a learning tool
PDF
Presenter
Simon Süsstrunk and Daria Hollenstein
Switzerland
Mit den Augen betagter Frauen MABF – analyzing and visualizing public space qualities as seen from the perspective of elderly women to facilitate healthy old age - a pilot study
PDF
Presenter
Malte von Szombathely
Germany
Health related urban well-being and environmental justice - some observations from Hamburg
PDF
Chair
Wim Niewenboom
Switzerland
9:00 - 10:20
Parallel 8: Engaging populations in different environments; challenges and achievements
Presenter
Jennifer Duyne Barenstein
Switzerland
Consequences of pseudo-participatory approaches towards post-disaster reconstruction on affected communities’ livelihoods, health and wellbeing
PDF
Presenter
Hannah Timpson
UK
Exploring Health and Social Value Outcomes of Inner and Outer-City Community Engagement
PDF
Presenter
Justin Harris
UK
Lessons from NHS Healthy New Towns programme
PDF
Chair
Andrea Zumbrunn
Switzerland
9:00 - 10:20
Parallel 9: The key role of health literacy, communication and engagement within migrant communities
Presenter
Isabella Bertschi
Switzerland
Health and health literacy in Colombian families residing in Switzerland
PDF
Presenter
Zeynep Islertas
Germany
Health Literacy of female adolescents with Turkish migration background in German
PDF
Presenter
Uwe Bittlingmayer
Germany
The Limits of Evidence-Based Public Health and the Need for an Ethnological Approach to Research in Health Promotion and Prevention
PDF
Chair
Diana Sahrai
Switzerland
10:20 - 10:40
Break: Coffee Break
10:40 - 12:00
Parallel 10: Designing the urban environment for health and well-being
Presenter
Pauline Quentin
Germany
Joint action by health and planning administrations: Experiences from small and medium-sized communities in Northwest Germany
PDF
Presenter
Nadine Kaeser
Switzerland
Participating in creating open spaces with and for children and its impact health
PDF
Presenter
Patrick Oehler and Timo Huber
Switzerland
Allotment gardens and their contribution to a healthy city
PDF
Chair
Martin Knöll
Germany
10:40 - 12:00
Parallel 11: Alcohol and nicotine: harm reduction and our favourite drugs
Presenter
David Dorn
UK
Nicotine and the pleasure principle: how we safe is nicotine?
PDF
Presenter
Olivier Théraulaz
Switzerland
Nicotine use and regulation: some parallels with alcohol and other drugs
PDF
Presenter
Alexander Bücheli
Switzerland
Alcohol harm prevention and harm reduction in nightlife settings: some examples from Swiss and other European settings
PDF
10:40 12:00 -
Parallel 12: Urban health, austerity and poverty
Presenter
Yann Bochsler
Switzerland
Housing, Poverty and Health Risk in Switzerland
PDF
Presenter
Michaela Schmidt
Switzerland
Housing aid and poverty in Swiss Cities
PDF
Presenter
Marco Bamberger and Fabian Neuhaus
Switzerland
Building Typologies and Housing for the Elderly in an changing urban context: Observations and Strategies Towards Independent Living at an Old Age
PDF
Chair
Jennifer Duyne Barenstein
12:00 - 13:00
Foyer
Break: Lunch Break and Poster Session
13:00 - 14:30
Pleanry 3: Addressing the needs of at risk and vulnerable populations
Presenter
Axel Klein
UK
Regulated cannabis markets: a precondition for healthy cities
PDF Video
Presenter
Matthias Drilling and Jörg Dittmann
Switzerland
Urban homelessness and Vulnerability – Experiences, Reflections and Implications
PDF Video
14:45 - 16:00
Closing session
Presenter
Madame Ruth Dreifuss
Switzerland
Health and the City: the challenge of coherence. Alison Chesney and Eddie Killoran Memorial Lecture. Introduction by Michel Kazatchkine (
PDF Video
Presenter
Tetyana Deshko
Ukraine
Handover to City Health 2018 - Odessa, Ukraine
PDF
Chair
David MacKintosh
Uk
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