We are going to use diabetes as a case study to produce three learnings. (1) Genetics are not the full story when it comes to non communicable diseases such as diabetes. (2) Understand that disease prevention and even cure is not just in the confines of medical institutions. (3) The need for geospatial studies to understand the interlink between diabetes and place.

This report will take an ecological approach, focusing on the bidirectional pathway between trauma and obesity to highlight the disparity between scientific evidence and communication around obesity, as well as the psychosocial factors that contribute to, and maintain, this disparity. This is to ensure health organisations and policies support a holistic and equitable prevention strategy for obesity.

This report lays out why there is a need to understand the history behind framing health as “individual choices” or “behaviours” to better appreciate what an ecological health approach looks like and its significance in eradicating health inequities.

The mission of this report is to reframe the culture around data to ensure that we understand its limitations, reframe from supremacy to a tool for justice, and introduce a more accurate lexicon so we can better our collective understanding of data.

Data does not operate in a vacuum as every part of the process is coloured by top down factors such as culture. Which data is collected, how it is analysed and the insights drawn from data are all decision points practitioners have to make and all practitioners belong to a specific culture which influences them.

In this report, we look at equitable engagement with community expertise and why it is essential to move towards equitable health solutions. We will define ‘equitable engagement’; reframe the relationship between community and science; and provide a ‘How To’ manual.

This report will look at how institutions and industry practice gaslights communities, the mistakes science makes, and the significance of listening and acknowledging the lived experience. This report is for both practitioners and citizens who are experiencing environmental and health injustice.

This report is for those working in transport planning and in policy and who are interested in understanding the link between equitable mobility and health. This report will lay out the need for equitable solutions around transport, how health is related to mobility, and a breakdown of equitable mobility zones.

This report proposes that our current framing and language of what regeneration means needs to evolve from one that is capital driven and spatially focused, to one that is health driven actively targeting the environmental, social, and governance barriers to health.

This report will focus primarily on the role of the built environment as a determinant of health, framing the professionals within the sector as healthcare workers because practitioners have a significant influence on the ability of citizens to build healthy relationships between health and place.

Environmental inequity is the systemic, avoidable, and unjust distribution of ecologically healthy environments (those that are free from pollutants, have high biodiversity, and have a healthy microbiome). It also refers to land being unjustly stolen, polluted, or damaged. In this essay, we will be detailing the pathways of oppression, including the role that science, policy, and city organisers play. 

This report lays out how many Indigenous societies, who lived in kinship with Nature, resisted a feudal relationship with Nature, and the approaches industrialised countries and environments can take for sustainable and equitable change.

In this report, we will highlight the major role that Nature plays in our health, going beyond the mere aesthetic value to understanding the nourishing value of Nature. We will highlight that we cannot live healthy lives without healthy Nature and argue that, for healthy People and a healthy Planet, we must stop treating Nature as a service or commodity.

Covid-19 has produced a widespread and communally traumatic event that will have trans generational consequences. One of the key consequences will be its toll on long term health, both mental and physical.

Air pollution, indoors and outdoors, is one of the main environmental hazards identified that affects not only our lungs but, in fact, our whole body. With every breath we take, we breathe in oxygen, an element critical to our life. But we also breathe in harmful pollutants that enter our lungs and bloodstream to then travel through the whole of our system where they reach, virtually, all our cells.

This report is to help frame Covid-19 as an experience rather than the current binary framing of “sick or not sick”. The reason this is necessary is to identify the different solutions, resources, strategies required for an equitable recovery, so no one is left behind.

This paper investigates how COVID-19 is interacting with these environments and their communities, specifically Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities in the UK. Specifically, this paper will look at the phenomenon of biological inequality and its relation to COVID-19 in BAME communities of London.

Centric Lab has done a three month study on the phenomena of the Southall community. We were instructed pro-bono to investigate if Southall Waterside, a real estate development led by St. Williams Homes LLP, had a role to play in the self reported spikes in health issues in the residents near the site.

This document illustrates the systemic and biological relationship between people and their habitats. Secondly, we are seeing an increase of mental health disorders like depression, anxiety, and PTSD as well as metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity.