Urban Health

Cities are home to a rising majority of the world’s population. The concentration of knowledge, innovation, economic activity, healthcare, education, and other public services gives cities the potential to improve the health and wellbeing of their residents and those of other parts of the country. We use interdisciplinary data and novel methods to measure and phenotype complex urban environments and to evaluate the health impacts of urban policies and urban change, with particular emphasis on inequalities in urban environment and health among different parts of a city and difference social groups. The work involves both intensive field monitoring campaigns for in-depth measurement of urban environment and health in specific cities, and the use of emerging big-data sources such as imagery, to measure and phenotype cities’ environment and track how they change.

As part of this work, we lead the Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities Study in which academic and policy partners develop and model the impacts of policy scenarios related to housing and the built environment, transportation, water, sanitation and waste management, and urban services on health and health inequalities.

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NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)

Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Nature, 569 , pp. 260–264, 2019.

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Suel E, Polak JW, Bennett JE, Ezzati M

Measuring social, environmental and health inequalities using deep learning and street imagery

Scientific Reports, 9 , pp. 6229, 2019.

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Bennett JE, Pearson-Stuttard J, Kontis V, Capewell S, Wolfe I, Ezzati M

Contributions of diseases and injuries to widening life expectancy inequalities in England from 2001 to 2016: a population-based analysis of vital registration data

Lancet Public Health, 3 (12), pp. e586-e597, 2018.

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Ezzati M, Webster CJ, Doyle YG, Rashid S, Owusu G, Leung GM

Cities for global health

BMJ, 363 , pp. k3794, 2018.

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Snider G, Carter E, Clark S, Tseng JTW, Yang X, Ezzati M, Schauer JJ, Wiedinmyer C, Baumgartner J

Impacts of stove use patterns and outdoor air quality on household air pollution and cardiovascular mortality in southwestern China

Environment International, 117 , pp. 116-124, 2018.

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