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title: Brave New Sport | Creating Healthier Populations
description: Has sport previously acted as a catalyst to improve the physical health of society? Find out in the third panel of our series of deep dives into some of the topics raised in Brave New Sport.
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# Living healthy: How can sport influence societal policy and decision making to create physically healthier populations?

This is the third in a series of deep dives around Brave New Sport and focusses on

sport’s influence on different stakeholders with the biggest positive impact on society.

 

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## What to expect?

Has sport previously acted as a catalyst to improve the physical health of society? Have governments properly leveraged sport? Should we expect them to? What other areas of government could sport have a surprising impact on and who are the stakeholders that could have the biggest impact on the community in the next decade? This third panel hopes to offer insights from a broad range of experts.

- A brief look at the recent past whether sport has previously positively impacted society’s health
- A look at the immediate future and potential methods to bridge class gaps
- A glimpse at the far-reaching future where we’ll discuss potential areas of government & stakeholders regarding surprising impacts on the physical health of society

# Presenters

### Dr. Stephan Sigrist

Founder & Director of the think tank W.I.R.E.

 

### David Burney

Academic Director of the Urban Placemaking and Management MS program at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture

 

### **Anja Luethi**

Moderator

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