Thursday, 22 May 2025
from 15:30 to 17:00
Lead
Dr Richard Hobday, independent researcher and author, UK
Prof. Brian Norton, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork and Technological University Dublin, Ireland
With
Dr Cláudia Naves David Amorim, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Brasília
Description
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to reduce premature deaths from non-communicable diseases by one-third by 2030. The initiative began in 2013 in response to a growing burden of chronic disease worldwide. This DLA project is investigating how latitude affects heart disease, depression, cancer and other health problems and what part the built environment plays in this. The workshop will start with a brief introduction to the subject. This will be followed by presentations of two draft documents by participants in this project. The first will be on the influence of latitude and daylight on building design and urban planning, and health. In parallel with this research, a second group is examining the impact of latitude and daylight on both chronic and infectious diseases and how these interact. They will also present some of their findings.
Objectives
The aim is to develop a better understanding of global health problems. The project will investigate how daylight, or lack of it, at different latitudes influences health. It will also examine how the built environment contributes to this.