International perspectives on building capacity for planning and health

This paper looks at the integration of health into planning and planning curricula and what we have learnt from international practice in the context of the PLAN-ED (“Educating Planners for the New Challenges of Sustainability, Knowledge and Governance”) project involving staff from four planning schools in the EU and the USA. In Bristol, the project brought together researchers, stakeholders and practitioners from both health and planning, including from local authorities, NGOs and health services to consider how best to progress the capacity building agenda