From Health Councils to Healing Hubs

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Centric Lab leaned into an emerging ontological shift with knowledge production.

The result was to set up the Urban Health Council as a means to convene a wide range of practitioners, researchers, and advocates focused on health in cities.

In late 2021, Impact on Urban Health, part of the Guy’s & St. Thomas’s Foundation came on board as a partner to support the centring of community knowledge production within the work.

This reporting covers the journey taken over since its emergence in 2021 and how it influenced our current direction.