Technical expert meeting on urban health, June 2021: meeting report

With nearly 70% of the global population projected to live in cities by 2050, urban health is a growing priority for the World Health Organization (WHO). For many years, WHO has carried out work in urban health by supporting initiatives for healthy cities, advocating for action through health promotion, identifying sectoral policies at local level that impact upon health, raising awareness, developing health impact tools and methodologies for technical assessments, and building strong networks across the globe. In the WHO Thirteenth General Programme of Work 2019–2023, there has been renewed commitment to promote and scale up urban health work across WHO with a coordinating function in the new Department of Social Determinants of Health (SDH).