
Governments have a roadmap to urban resilience in the global sustainable development agenda.Effective urban resilience capacity building requires mainstreaming across local governments.Building urban resilience is a multisectoral, multidimensional, multi-stakeholder process that requires a clear change of trajectory from previous paths.


Responsive, accountable local governments play a pivotal role in developing effective holistic place-based interventions that can generate multiple co-benefits for health, inclusion and climate change mitigation.Expanding Universal Health Care is a key priority in advancing health for inclusive, resilient, and sustainable urban futures as well as strengthening health system preparedness for a future of epidemics and pandemics.Challenges of health inequity-often rooted in geographic, political and socioeconomic exclusion-can be tackled via place-based initiatives co-developed with residents to promote health in marginalized neighbourhoods and support more equitable urban futures.

