Pardee Faculty Fellow’s Presentation Featured in CityLab Article

Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Susan Foster‘s presentation at the Pardee Center conference “The Future is Now: Urban Asia in the 21st Century” was featured in the CityLab article “As Asian Cities Grow, so Do Public Health Concerns.”

Foster’s presentation “Promise and Peril: Urbanization and Public Health in Asian Cities” focused on some of the ways that urbanization can negatively impact individual and public health. The article discussed how rural migrants moving into big cities can take on bad habits including being more sedentary, consuming unhealthy foods, and increased tobacco use.

Nearly 65 percent of people living in cities in China–where tobacco use is actually encouraged by the government–are smokers. “We have to wean governments, as well as people, off the addiction to tobacco,” says Foster.

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To view more information and presentations from the conference, visit our Urban Asia page.