In the second episode of the series Pamela Carbajal, Urban health and regional planner (Planning, Finance and Economy Section). Global Solutions division talks about integrating health in urban planning. The episode also introduces a Sourcebook that has elaborated the concept of integrating health in urban and territorial planning. Pamela talks about the learnings while developing the sourcebook and the impact of Data-Knowledge-Action for Urban Systems with respect to health and urban planners.
Pamela is an Architect from the University of Technology of Monterrey, Mexico. Since January 2018, she works at UN-Habitat, particularly on Integrating health in Urban and Territorial Planning (UTP). She coordinates the program planning for healthy cities and has delivered capacity building activates and gives technical advisory to local and national governments.
Moreover, Pamela has a particular focus on building healthy environments and social inclusion. she had collaborated with WHO on developing the Sourcebook on Integrating health in UTP and a Compendium of Inspiring Practices.
Moreover, she has also supported Bolivia, Argentina, and Mexico on their National and Subnational Urban Policies development. And work with the Global Public Space Programme at UN-Habitat on citywide public spaces strategies for different cities in Latin America.
Previously, she worked at the Public Space Authority of Mexico City as part of the design team, assessing and designing public spaces. And at the Municipal Institute of Planning in Chihuahua, Mexico where she worked on a neighbourhood master plan.
