In Mexico City, a Saskatchewan researcher carried a simple idea to the world's urban health stage: prescribe community, not just medicine

Chinaedu Mbonu, a doctoral student at the University of Saskatchewan's Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, travelled to Mexico City for the International Conference on Urban Health to present research on social prescribing — connecting patients to community supports, activities and services, not just prescriptions. Her work examines how to build that approach into primary care in Canada. In Mexico City she also visited the city's UTOPIAS, free public hubs offering health and community services together — the idea she studies, already built in brick. She left, she says, having learned from researchers across the globe who share the project of healthier cities.

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