2019 Global Health Forum in Taiwan was scheduled for Sunday and Monday, October 20-21, at the Taipei International Meeting Center, on the theme of “Urban Life of the 21st Century: Sustainable, Safe and Healthy?”. The event featured a discussion of the continuous growth of the global urban population, along with the important effects on public health from global and local ecological systems and urban environmental quality, including waste processing, safe water resources, hygiene facilities, and injury or harm prevention and poverty topics, as well as further in depth discussion of urbanization issues related to the Sustainable Development Goals. The Forum’s main morning session extended invitations to international experts for a discussion of the urban environment and health issues. In the afternoon there were parallel meeting sessions exploring issues including emerging urban environment related Big Data and technological applications, the migrant population in the urban environment, urban fragility and instability, care, health and wisdom in urban living, children’s environmental health promotion, and policy promotion of care and concern for the disadvantaged facing urbanization.


2019 Global Health Forum in Taiwan - 10/20 Opening and Plenary 1

2019 Global Health Forum in Taiwan - 10/21 Plenary 2