Marcus Grant
As a practicing trans-disciplinarian, Marcus Grant is an ecologist who works as an urban designer and landscape architect in urban public health. Former Associate Professor and deputy director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments, Marcus has worked with the WHO European Healthy Cities Network for over 15 years. With a wealth of experience he has examined issues of sustainable development and health through consultancy, governmental organisations and academia. He is a fellow by distinction of the Faculty of Public Health in the UK and acts as a built environment expert for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
In his consultancy, Environmental Stewardship for Health, Marcus focuses on the reconciliation of human health and biosphere health, in the urban realm. He is co-author of ‘Shaping Neighbourhoods for Local Health and Global Sustainability’ (2010) and ‘The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being’ (2015). He leads a journal ‘Cities and Health’ expressly developed to fill the gap between ‘what we know’ and ‘what we do’ in cities. Marcus has an active following on Twitter as @marcusxgrant.
Marcus is Editor-in-Chief of the Routledge journal Cities & Health, and director of SHINE (Supporting Healthier Inclusive Urban Environments) for Bristol Health Partners.
twitter: @marcusxgrant
e-mail: marcusxgrant@citieshealth.world
In his consultancy, Environmental Stewardship for Health, Marcus focuses on the reconciliation of human health and biosphere health, in the urban realm. He is co-author of ‘Shaping Neighbourhoods for Local Health and Global Sustainability’ (2010) and ‘The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being’ (2015). He leads a journal ‘Cities and Health’ expressly developed to fill the gap between ‘what we know’ and ‘what we do’ in cities. Marcus has an active following on Twitter as @marcusxgrant.
Marcus is Editor-in-Chief of the Routledge journal Cities & Health, and director of SHINE (Supporting Healthier Inclusive Urban Environments) for Bristol Health Partners.
twitter: @marcusxgrant
e-mail: marcusxgrant@citieshealth.world
