Thursday 11 December 2025 04.00 – 05.00 PM (BD Time)
To mark Universal Health Coverage Day 2025, the CHORUS research consortium is bringing together experts from Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria and Ghana to share findings, lessons and insights on health vulnerabilities in urban contexts, and recommendations for health system interventions that can help address health inequity and advance progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage.
Poverty exists across urban areas and in a wide variety of forms, from single migrants sharing overcrowded lodgings, small pockets of slum households, to large informal settlements. This diversity results in forms of urban poverty being overlooked in the data and evidence used by decision makers. The invisibility of the poor undermines resource allocation to overcome urban health inequities.
Across the urban poor, gender, ethnicity, age, disability all intersect and affect health. Within all the CHORUS cities, health outcomes and the health behaviours, exposures and access to quality health care which underpin them, are determined by individual and community identities. These in turn are shaped by wider social, political and economic structures and norms.
This webinar will look at who are most vulnerable in the urban contexts we work in, the barriers faced, how CHORUS has identified and worked with the most marginalised and the key recommendations for strengthening urban health equity.
This session will be chaired by Shreeman Sharma, Research Uptake Manager at HERD International, Nepal and will include an engaging panel discussion. Panel members will include:
- Professor Syed Masud Ahmed, Director of the Centre of Excellence for Health Systems and Universal Health Coverage, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, Bangladesh
- Professor Zahidul Quayyum, Co-Director of the Centre of Excellence for Urban Health Equity and Health, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, Bangladesh
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Dr. Deepak Paudel, Public Health Professional and Health Systems Expert, HERD International, Nepal
- Dr. Osasuyi Dirisu, Executive Director, Policy Innovation Centre, Nigeria
- Prof. Peter Elias, Co-Director, Centre for Housing & Sustainable Development, University of Lagos, Nigeria
We look forward to having you join the event!
