Health Effects Of Air Pollution & Equitable Solutions With Kate Langford Of Guys & St. Thomas's

City Centric Podcast

This interview is with Kate Langford, The Impact on Urban Health’s Programme Director for health effects of air pollution. A ten-year programme focusing on mitigating the disproportionate effect that exposure to poor air quality has on the health and wellbeing of those most susceptible to it. The Impact on Urban Health is a specialist division part of Guy's and St Thomas' Charity. For over 500 years, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity has been a constant in London’s ever-changing landscape, at the leading edge of health. Their endowment has allowed them to take a long-term view to help tackle the big health challenges of today and tomorrow. They invest and use assets, from property to a large arts collection, to produce in come that transforms lives locally in South London and in cities around the world. Before joining the Charity, Kate worked at Innovation Unit, a public sector consultancy, where she led their work in health and social care, applying design-led methodologies to solve complex social issues. She started her career in academic health services research, specialising on health inequalities. Kate has a Master’s degree in Public Health from Imperial College London and a BSc in Human Sciences from University College London. Needless to say you can understand why we’ve wanted to get Kate on the podcast for a while and enjoyed working with her team in 2019-20. LINKS The Programme: https://urbanhealth.org.uk/insights/opinion/lessons-on-the-health-effects-air-pollution Kate’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/k_langford Impact on Urban Health’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImpUrbanHealth Centric Lab Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/centriclab Website: https://www.thecentriclab.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/centriclab Please do leave a rating and review if you can, thanks!