| Leonard Duhl, M.D.,
and Trevor Hancock, M.B., B.S., were founders of the Healthy Cities/Healthy
Communities Movement. Dr. Duhl is founding director of the International
Healthy Cities Foundation. He is also professor of public health and urban
planning and of psychiatry at the University of California at Berkeley.
His major area of work is healthy cities, and he consults extensively with
governments and international agencies to aid the process of developing
them. Earlier, Dr. Duhl was chief of planning for the National Institute
of Mental Health (US), where he participated in the development of the
Peace Corps.
Dr. Hancock is a public health
physician and health promotion consultant, in recent years emphasizing
healthy cities/communities. He works for local communities, provincial
and national governments, health care organizations and the World Health
Organization. He has been consulted on healthy city/community projects in
several countries, notably Sweden and the US, as well as throughout Canada.
Dr. Hancock was a family physician prior to becoming an Associate Medical
Officer of Health for the city of Toronto, where he helped initiate the
Healthy Cities movement.
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