Project 461032

People's health and well-being depend, in part, on the physical and social attributes of the neighbourhood where they live. If we want to design health promoting neighbourhoods, we need citizens, researchers, institutions (e.g., school, health and social services, housing), community organizations, and actors from the municipal and private sectors to partner together and collaborate. Evidence regarding how to develop and maintain such intersectoral partnerships is scarce. In this project we will formalize an interdisciplinary team committed to better understanding and supporting intersectoral partnership and collaboration for health promoting neighbourhoods. Through a literature scan and a one-day symposium with researchers and partners from a diversity of sectors, we will (1) identify potential enablers and barriers to intersectoral partnership development and action plan implementation in the context of the Marie-Reine neighbourhood (Sherbrooke, QC), our case example, and (2) develop clear research and intervention priorities to create health promoting neighbourhoods more widely. The intersectoral partnership we build, and research agenda we establish with this planning grant can support other mid-size cities in their quest to (re)design healthy and equitable neighbourhoods, and ultimately, healthy, equitable and resilient cities.