Few cities in the world present the full complexity of urban health as vividly as Mexico City.

Home to more than 21 million people across one of the most expansive metropolitan regions on the planet, the city is navigating challenges that are both deeply local and globally recognizable: air quality and climate adaptation, housing pressure and informal settlement, mobility and public space, health system access and inequality, and the specific burdens carried by children, young people, and older adults in dense urban environments.

It is also a city of remarkable invention. Mexico City has become a reference point for community-led urbanism, neighborhood primary care, participatory governance, and climate-resilient design. Its public spaces, cultural institutions, and civil society are active, contested, and generative. That makes it an ideal place to convene the 22nd edition of ICUH.