An urban lived experience lens of diabetes

How does air pollution contribute to diabetes distribution in Southwark and Lambeth communities?

Client	Guy’s & St. Thomas’s Health Foundation (Impact on Urban Health)
Project	Internal strategy research
Challenge	Impact of Urban Health are a part of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, a charitable foundation. They believe they can remove the obstacles to good health, by making urban areas healthier places for everyone to live. One major obstacle is the insidious nature of air pollution and its impact on inner city dwellers. They were curious how our data and research approach could help them develop a robust approach to tackling air pollution that understood it’s relationship to diabetes which is very high in the London boroughs of Lambeth & Southwark
Tools	Biological Inequity Index, Literature Review
Methods	We used the Biological Inequity Index to identify hotspots within Southwark and Lambeth where diabetes was a higher risk due to air pollution and deprivation factors. We included these findings with a literature review about the relationship between air pollution, lived experience, and diabetes
Outputs	Report containing hotspot data and workshop with wider team.
Outcomes	Impact on Urban Health learned more about how the lived experience in combination with air pollution can put people at risk for diabetes