💠From June 17–20, 2025, the Annual Business Meeting and Technical Conference of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network took place in Bursa, Turkey.

🔗The conference brought together over 460 participants from 28 countries, including policymakers, national representatives of healthy cities networks, experts in public health, urban planning, ecology, WHO representatives, academics, and NGOs.

Key goals of the conference:

🔷Discussing strategic priorities for the development of healthy cities;

🔷Reviewing outcomes of Phase VII (2019–2025);

🔷Launching Phase VIII with its main directions and commitments;

🔷Addressing public health and urban policy within the context of sustainable development;

🔷Providing a platform for experience-sharing among participants.

🏛Professor Karen Robertovich Amlaev, Doctor of Medical Sciences and Professor of the Department of Preventive Medicine, Public Health, and Health Management at Abu Ali ibn Sino Bukhara State Medical Institute, participated in the conference as a member of the WHO “Healthy Cities” project’s scientific committee.