Cardiff Healthy City
Cardiff Healthy City Event
An event was held at Cardiff City Stadium on Wednesday 13th January 2010 to celebrate Cardiff becoming Wales' first Healthy City and a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Healthy Cities Network.
The event was a chance to celebrate the achievement of gaining Healthy City status and provided the opportunity to engage with partner organisations to help us deliver the commitment and develop the Cardiff Healthy City programme.
We were fortunate to welcome a range of eminent speakers for the morning session along with knowledgeable facilitators for the afternoon workshops and we are very grateful for their time and participation. Please click on the following link to see the event programme. Speaker Profiles are listed below.
In the morning session Dr Agis Tsouros, Head of the WHO Centre for Urban Health and Healthy Cities presented the WHO Healthy Cities Certificate to Cllr Rodney Berman. Cardiff City Football Club was also awarded Wales' first Healthy Stadia membership and Dr Matthew Phillott, the European Healthy Stadia Co-ordinator presented Peter Ridsdale (Chairman of Cardiff City Football Club) and Marc Cahill (Assistant Manager, Cardiff City Community Foundation) with a certificate and plaque.
We were delighted that despite the snow 110 people were able to attend out of the 220 registered and we would like to thank everyone who took part in the day. The feedback was very positive and the information from the afternoon workshops will be used to help form an Action Plan for the Healthy Cities Programme.
Speakers included:
- Cllr. John Dixon - Executive Member for Health, Social Care and Well Being, Cardiff Council and Chair Cardiff Health Alliance
- Peter Ridsdale - Chairman of Cardiff City Football Club
- Dr. Agis Tsouros - Head, World Health Organization (WHO) Centre for Urban Health and Healthy Cities, Head of Non-Communicable Disease and Lifestyles
- Cllr. Rodney Berman - The Leader of Cardiff Council and Chair of the Cardiff Vision Forum
- Professor Stephen Monaghan - Public Health Director, Cardiff and Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Wales
- Joan Devlin - Director of Belfast Healthy Cities Programme
- Dr. Tony Jewell - Chief Medical Officer for Wales
- Dr. Matthew Philpott - European Healthy Stadia Coordinator
- Neelam Bhardwaja - Corporate Director Social
Briefing Papers
For more information on the World Health Organization Healthy Cities programme and European Healthy Stadia Network please refer to the following briefing papers:
Briefing Paper - Healthy Cities
Briefing Paper - Healthy Stadia
Morning Session Powerpoint Presentations
Dr. Stephen Monaghan:
Why Cardiff? A Tale of Two Cities (3.7Mb)
Joan Devlin:
Belfast Healthy Cities: Successes & Challenges (18.3Mb)
Dr. Tony Jewell:
Our Healthy Future (15.7Mb)
Matthew Philpott:
European Healthy Stadia Programme (22.3Mb)
Afternoon Session Workshops
Workshop 01 - The Food Environment
Workshop 02 - Food, Alcohol and Healthy Lifestyles
Workshop 03 - Healthy Urban Planning
Workshop 04 - Transport
Workshop 05 - Workplace Health
Workshop 06 - Regeneration, Housing and Social Inclusion
Workshop 07 - Safe, Supportive and Participative Communities
Workshop 08 - Physical Activity
Photos from Event
Early Morning Snow
Morning Speeches
From left to right: Neelam Bhardwaja, Cllr. Rodney Berman, Dr. Matthew Philpott,
Dr. Tony Jewell, Dr. Agis Tsouros, Jan Williams (Chief Executive, Cardiff and Vale UHB),
David Francis (Chair: Cardiff & Vale UHB, Vice Chair Cardiff Health Alliance), Joan Devlin,
Professor Stephen Monaghan, Christine Jenkins (Operational Manager, Health Partnership Team)
Certificate Presentation: Dr. Agis Tsouros (World Health Organization) presenting
Healthy Cities certificate to Cllr. Rodney Berman (The Leader of Cardiff Council).
Certificate Presentation: Dr. Matthew Philpott (European Healthy Cities Network)
presenting Healthy Stadia certificate to Peter Ridsdale (Chairman of Cardiff City Football Club)
and Marc Cahill (Assistant Manager of Cardiff City FC Community Foundation)
Afternoon Workshops
Afternoon Workshops