Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

4 weeks, 1 session per week, 2 to 3 hours per week

Healthy Urban Systems – Part I

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

4 weeks, 1 session per week, 2 to 3 hours per week

Target Audience

Dedicated For Master level, PhDs and long-life training from all disciplines linked to the city, health, the environment, social and human sciences, data sciences…

Overview

  • Health is the pulse of the new urban agenda / Health must be included in all policies
  • Urban health must be approached as a complex system comprising multiple interacting dimensions (natural, social, psychological) and scales
  • It must be apprehended in a dynamic way & role of history
  • With a science-society strong collaboration / participation
  • Strategies for disease prevention
  • Encourage place based policies in a multi-scale perspective

Objectives

  • Improve building capacity to approach urban health in a complex approach with multidimensional and multi-scale eco-systemic frameworks
  • Mobilize and accompany all the actors who are directly or indirectly linked to urban health

Program

The MOOC Healthy Urban Systems is split into 3 parts.

HEALTHY URBAN SYSTEMS, PART I: Concepts and observations

Online since November 2023
Module 1: A multidisciplinary framework
Module 2: Observing, measuring, and representing

HEALTHY URBAN SYSTEMS, PART II: Theories and Models

Online since November 2023
Module 3: Theoretical frameworks
Module 4: Tools for modeling

HEALTHY URBAN SYSTEMS, PART III: Urban Design and Policies

Online since March 2024
5: Scenarios design
6: Policies and governance

Certification

Upon payment, a certificate of attendance could be delivered at the end of the course.

Accreditation (possible and not compulsory): 2 ECTS, issued by the University of Lausanne via COURSERA (US$ 25)

Organisation

University of Lausanne – UNIL-EPFL Foundation for Continuing Education

General coordination:

  • Prof. Céline Rozenblat, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Prof. Jeff van de Poël, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Practical information

Language

The MOOC is entirely in English, with possible subtitles in French and Chinese.

Schedule

Ongoing programme, 4 weeks – 1 session per week to be taken at your convenience. Workload: 2 to 3 hours per week

Registration

No background expertise is required.

Course fee

This course is free of charge.