The New York Academy of Medicine open a blog to discuss why urban health matters. The perspective to answer this question is novel and various.

One of the latest blogs, big data is key to healthier cities worldwide, is to explore the link between big data and healthy cities by Dr. Norma Padron. After participating in the 2015 World Social Science conference Big Data in an Urban Context hosted by ICSU Urban Health and Wellbeing programme, Dr. Padron expressed the optimistic expectation of better understanding and addressing urban health risks by making best use of big data. Read more from urban health matters blog.

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