Commentary: A road map for future data-driven urban planning and environmental health research.

Recent advances in data science and urban environmental health research utilise large-scale databases (100s-1000s of cities) to explore the complex interplay of urban characteristics such as city form and size, climate, mobility, exposure, and environmental health impacts. Cities are still hotspots of air pollution and noise, suffer urban heat island effects and lack of green space, which leads to disease and mortality burdens preventable with better knowledge. Better understanding through harmonising and analysing data in large numbers of cities is essential to identifying the most effective means of disease prevention and understanding context dependencies important for policy.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The findings and conclusions in this commentary are those of the authors. In particular, these should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the conclusions reported in this paper.