The principal theme to be addressed at the 10th International Conference on Urban Health will be urban health action toward equity, with special interest in the urban context, its metrics, and interventions. This theme and others will be explored by international plenary speakers and attendees throughout the duration of the conference.

The conference will address how institutions and governments can develop and implement interventions that improve health equity, based upon the urban health evidence. These issues will be examined in a multitude of sectors, such as climate change, air pollution, physical activity, health services, violence and security, transportation and injuries, housing and infrastructure, neighborhoods and the urban environment, reproductive and maternal child health, the social determinants of health, substance use and vulnerable populations, and still others.

EcoSummit 2012 will bring together the world's most respected minds in ecological science to discuss restoring the planet's ecosystems. Come hear Nobel Prize laureate Elinor Ostrom, Pulitzer Prize winners E.O. Wilson and Jared Diamond, Kyoto Prize winner Simon Levin, Stockholm Water Prize laureates Sven Jørgensen and Bill Mitsch, and many others in the first conference ever linking the Ecological Society of America (ESA), The International Association for Ecology (INTECOL) and the Society for Ecological Restoration International (SER