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<p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><img src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/COE_UHW.png" alt="" width="336" height="160" style="margin: 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; text-decoration: none; float: right;"></p><div class="gmail-WordSection1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Co-sponsored by the International Science Council (ISC), the United Nations University (UNU), and the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), the<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">Urban Health and Wellbeing (UHWB) programme<span> </span></strong>was launched as a ten-year programme to address the major challenges to health and wellbeing in the urban environment. Starting in 2014 its International Programme Office at the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IUE, CAS) took up its operation.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The UHWB programme addresses the emerging health challenges in urban environments which are under the influence of and accelerated by broader climate, epidemiological, demographic and ecological changes. The programme recognizes the increasing complexity and interconnectedness of cities as socio-ecological-technological systems and the associated risks to the health and wellbeing of people living in cities. Ageing, safety, inequality, malnutrition, migration, transport, pollution and a range of communicable and non-communicable diseases are among some of the problem areas for which better knowledge and data need to be created, integrated and communicated for improving urban decision-making. However, despite the increasing amount and availability of data the decision-making process requires more systems intelligence to better cope with complexity and progress towards the global goals and targets of the UN landmark agreements of the New Urban Agenda, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The UHWB programme therefore<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">aims<span> </span></strong>at promoting and encouraging the application of various types of systems approaches in different fields of urban health and wellbeing by developing methodology, identifying and integrating data, strengthening capacity, communication, outreach and decision support to support the implementation of the UN landmark agreements.<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">The programme aims at facilitating the creation of systems intelligence for improving health and wellbeing in changing urban environments.</strong></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The UHWB Programme is directed by the<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">Science Committee<span> </span></strong>and the<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">International Programme  Office  (IPO)  </strong>which  decided  to  establish  a  limited  number  of  <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">International</strong></p></div><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;out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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Apply for CODATA-RDA Foundational School in Research Data Science,<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_6044267390918139003gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_6044267390918139003gmail-aQJ">22 Oct-2 Nov 2018</span></span>, Kigali, Rwanda</b><span class="gmail-m_6044267390918139003gmail-m_8111282319548270696Apple-converted-space"> </span>- <a href="http://www.codata.org/working-groups/research-data-science-summer-schools/kigali-2018" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Deadline for Applications<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_6044267390918139003gmail-aBn" style="border:none"><span class="gmail-m_6044267390918139003gmail-aQJ" style="border:none">18 July 2018</span></span></a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Call for CODATA Task Groups 2018-2020:</b> <a href="http://www.codata.org/events/general-assembly/general-assembly-2018/call-for-task-groups-2018-2020" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Deadline<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_6044267390918139003gmail-aBn" style="border:none"><span class="gmail-m_6044267390918139003gmail-aQJ" style="border:none">18 July</span></span>.</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Turning FAIR Data into Reality - EC Expert Group Report and Action Plan:</b> <a href="http://www.codata.org/news/254/62/Turning-FAIR-Data-into-Reality-Report-and-Action-Plan-Consultation-until-5-August" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">consultation and feedback until<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_6044267390918139003gmail-aBn" style="border:none"><span class="gmail-m_6044267390918139003gmail-aQJ" style="border:none">5 August</span></span></a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Find out what’s happening! </b><a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/codata-international_lists.codata.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Sign up to the CODATA International News List</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Looking for training and career opportunities in data science and data stewardship?</b>  <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/data_science_training_lists.codata.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Sign up to the CODATA community-run data science training and careers list</a></div>

</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);word-wrap:break-word">___________________________</div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:asha@codata.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">asha@codata.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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