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IAP Young Physician Leaders Alumna on Nature Medicine

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Tolu Oni's "Future-proofing health and health-proofing the future of cities"

IAP Young Physician Leaders alumna Tolu Oni publishen an article on Nature Medicine 26, 304 (2020), titled "Future-proofing health and health-proofing the future of cities". In this article she highlights her wok and how urban exposures contribute to health and how to better co-design, with diverse stakeholders, interventions in the environment to create health and enable healthy choices.

"I now focus my research towards better understanding of how urban exposures contribute to health and how to better co-design, with diverse stakeholders, interventions in the environment to create health and enable healthy choices" she wrote. 

"My interest in the prevention of non-communicable diseases is driven by a desire to confront the complexity of improving health in the future. Can we inoculate ourselves with the very cities that are negatively impacting our health, consciously designing them to create health for the entire population in the long term?"

You can read the full artricle here

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