Belfast Healthy Cities is a citywide partnership working to improve health equity and wellbeing for people living and working in Belfast. Our focus is on improving social living conditions and prosperity in a healthy way, through intersectoral collaboration and a health in all policies approach.

Belfast is also a leading member of the World Health Organization European Healthy Cities Network, with a strong track record of meeting WHO goals and objectives. Belfast Healthy Cities’ office has a staff team dedicated to working with partner organizations to facilitate and support change. The office also acts as the link between the city and WHO, and Belfast currently provides the secretariat to the Network.

Belfast Healthy Cities has published its contribution to an EU study into Building Healthy Communities. The discussion document, “Good for health, Good for Regeneration, Good for Belfast” seeks to identify effective ways of monitoring how regeneration affects health and equity.  It also highlights that healthy people are key to a stable economy. Full Story