ICUH 2025 partners

This conference has been made possible by the generosity of our 2025 partners and sponsors:

city co-host

  • Pōneke, te wāhi auaha e whitawhita ai ōna tāngata me tōna taiao.

    Pōneke, the creative capital where people and nature thrive.

    This vision for Wellington City is our guiding star. It anchors us in what we're trying to achieve for the city and how we'll get there.

    Learn more at wellington.govt.nz

Academic Co-Host

  • Founded in 1869, the University of Otago is New Zealand’s oldest and finest university. Most teaching takes place on the Dunedin campus and the majority of the University’s 20,000 students have come from outside the Dunedin area to enjoy the unique lifestyle in New Zealand’s only true student city.

    Research excellence underpins academic activity at Otago and a strong research culture is fostered across all four divisions – Business, Health Sciences, Humanities and Sciences. This was highlighted by Otago’s success under the New Zealand Government’s 2012 Performance-Based Research Funding (PBRF) quality evaluation, which confirmed Otago's position as the leading research institution in New Zealand.

    Read more at otago.ac.nz

co-sponsors

  • WHO is a knowledge partner of ISUH. An organization of 194 Member States - The Member States elect the Director-General, who leads the organization in achieving its global health goals.

    WHO’s team of 8000+ professionals includes the world’s leading public health experts, including doctors, epidemiologists, scientists and managers.

    Together, we coordinate the world’s response to health emergencies, promote well-being, prevent disease and expand access to health care. By connecting nations, people and partners to scientific evidence they can rely on, we strive to give everyone an equal chance at a safe and healthy life.

    Learn more at: who.int

REGISTRATION & POSTER AWARD SPONSOR

  • Bupa is generously supporting ICUH 2025 registration and this year's poster awards.

    Our purpose is to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives. In New Zealand we do this by providing care homes and retirement villages.

    We’re extremely proud of the level of care we provide for our residents and boast an excellent record when measured against national standards. Each of our care homes undergoes a regular Ministry of Health audit and we’re always more than happy to share those results with you.

    We maintain our excellence by frequently benchmarking the quality of our care, across both staff and locations. Each month we collate all of our incident reports, complaints and compliments, review them and make changes where necessary. Every year we also compare the results of our Resident Satisfaction Survey so that we can take steps to ensure that all our homes and villages are on par with the best performing ones.

    As one of New Zealand’s largest provider of dementia care, Bupa is committed to shaping New Zealand’s dementia care and ensuring that people living with dementia lead happier lives, for as long as they can. This is why we are exploring what we can do to help to create dementia friendly communities, as well as helping people living with dementia in care homes.

    Read more at bupa.co.nz

PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

  • Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is New Zealand’s top ranked university for intensity of high-quality research (2018 Performance-Based Research Fund). It is the only university to twice top the country's main measure of research excellence.

    Read more at wgtn.ac.nz

  • MĀPIHI: Māori and Pacific Housing Research Centre is a transdisciplinary team based at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland, committed to improving housing quality and supply for Māori and Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific through impactful research. MĀPIHI research supports Māori and Pacific whānau to live in healthy, sustainable and affordable homes.

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  • The Office for Seniors is generously supporting the ICUH 2025 Age-Friendly Cities & Communities Pre-Conference Symposium, as well as Plenary 3: Age-Friendly Environments & Wellbeing: Prioritizing Healthy Aging in Communities

    The Office for Seniors is the primary advisor to the Government on issues affecting older people, located within the Ministry of Social Development (MSD).

    Our vision: Older New Zealanders lead valued, connected and fulfilling lives.
    Kia noho ora tonu ngā kaumātua.

    What we do: New Zealand has an ageing population – we're expected to have 1.2 million people aged over 65 by 2034. This will have implications on housing, employment, health, financial capability and social issues.

    The Office for Seniors provides information to seniors and is a key advisor to the Government about the issues and concerns of older people.

    We work to improve the lives of older people across the country by promoting the wellbeing and concerns of seniors and increasing awareness of the issues facing our ageing population.

    Learn more at officeforseniors.govt.nz

  • Auckland University of Technology (AUT) is proud to be one of the world’s best modern universities. We offer exceptional learning experiences that prepare students to be successful wherever in the world their career may take them.

    Across all of our programmes, we encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, and the ability to explore new technologies, challenge routine thinking and solve problems in new ways.

    As a contemporary university we also place an emphasis on working across disciplines in our research, and teaching and learning. We’re connected to an extraordinary range of organisations worldwide; sharing expertise and resources, collaborating on groundbreaking research, and connecting students with industry leaders and employers.

    AUT leads Australasia in global research impact, and we have more than 60 research centres and institutes delivering leading research – from artificial intelligence to robotics, and ecology to public health.

    Find out more at aut.ac.nz

  • Te Hotonga Hapori – Connecting Communities is a multidisciplinary research programme based at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), bringing together researchers from AUT and partner organisations with expertise in urban planning, wellbeing measurement, building research, time-use epidemiology and data science. The team focuses on ensuring community stories, histories, and experiences inform neighbourhood design; understanding how movement and time use affect daily wellbeing; examining how contemporary home design influences individual and whānau wellbeing; evaluating the impact of urban redevelopment on Kāinga Ora tenancy customers; and tracking population wellbeing using anonymised, linked administrative and survey data. By combining this expertise, Te Hotonga Hapori investigates how urban redevelopment shapes community wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand and aims to ensure future projects support healthier, more connected communities.

    At ICUH, our team will present on key aspects of the programme. Dr Jessie Colbert and Professor Dan Exeter will share their work developing a Walking Accessibility Index for New Zealand urban areas. Dr Vivienne Ivory (WSP) will highlight why combining quantitative and qualitative data leads to meaningful change, demonstrating how triangulating numbers and stories can uncover insights that inform policy, guide urban redevelopment, and improve wellbeing outcomes for communities. PhD researcher Mehdi Berati will explore multi-anchor accessibility and bus ridership using GPS- and accelerometer-based methods. Dr Casimir MacGregor, Amy Knight, and Suzanne Jones will discuss how housing conditions and urban development interdependencies impact individual and whānau health and wellbeing.

    We look forward to connecting with colleagues, sharing our findings, and contributing to discussions on building healthier, more inclusive communities across New Zealand and globally.

    Learn more at tehotongahapori.ac.nz

  • The Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities (GOHSC) (www.healthysustainablecities.org) is a leading global source of evidence-based, open-source urban policy and spatial indicators, providing tools to measure and track progress towards healthy and sustainable cities.

    The 1000 Cities Challenge supports participants to generate indicators, reports and scorecards for their city. The evidence-based indicators measure what matters for healthy and sustainable cities, such as walkability, access to public space, food stores and public transport, urban heat vulnerability, and the quality of policies that support healthy and sustainable outcomes.

    By leveraging global open data and a rigorous, standardized measurement approach, the GOHSC provides actionable neighbourhood-level insights and enables comparable city measurement worldwide.  Indicator reports can be customised and generated in English and local languages.

    Participants in the 1000 Cities Challenge get their city included in the GOHSC and become part of a multi-award-winning global collaboration committed to capacity building and generating local impact. Find out more and sign up at: healthysustainablecities.org

    The GOHSC has also just been awarded the Nobel Sustainability Trust's 2025 Sustainability Award in the category of Outstanding Research and Development for Smart & Sustainable City Solutions.