Pathways to equitable healthy cities is a global partnership that aims to improve population health, enhance health equity and ensure environmental sustainability in cities around the world through co-production of rigorous evidence with policy and civil society partners in cities in five countries. We use diverse data sources, especially emerging open and big data, and novel methods for data integration and visualisation to characterise cities dynamic social, physical and natural environments, people’s experiences of these environments, and their health.

This project investigates feedbacks among locusts, livestock, nutrients and people. Current fieldwork focuses on understanding these relationships in Senegal, building on past work in China and Australia. We are investigating two overarching questions: (1) How do insect-nutrient relations and livestock grazing strategies interact to affect food security, and rangeland degradation? (2) How do property rights regimes affect the adaptive capacity of societies to respond to the linkages between overgrazing and locust outbreaks?