Healthy Cities Conference 2010

The 2010 Healthy cities conference will be held at Stamford Plazza Brisbane on the 12th and 13th of July, focusing on the pre-requisites for a “healthy city”.

BY jesse

April 4th, 2011

The 2010 Healthy cities conference will be held at Stamford Plazza Brisbane on the 12th and 13th of July.

The conference will focus on the pre-requisites for a “healthy city”. Among the issues addressed during the conference are managing population and economic growth, climate change adaptation, managing communication disease outbreaks (health security), population health management, city design, green cities and technologies, renewable energy, inter alia.

For further information please visit healthycities.com.au

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