About City Health Evidence Finder

City Health Evidence Finder is a public beta created and owned by Dr Shaun Danielli.

It brings together structured evidence on city initiatives to improve health, healthcare and quality of life. The purpose is practical: to help policymakers, researchers, city leaders and practitioners see what cities have tried, what evidence exists on impact, what powers and policy levers were used, and what lessons may apply elsewhere.

Around the world, cities are taking action on air quality, transport, food environments, housing, climate risk, inequality, prevention and pressure on health services.

The evidence is difficult to find and use. It is spread across academic papers, city reports, project websites, dashboards and practice networks.

City Health Evidence Finder brings this material into one searchable evidence base.

Shaun has worked in city health and healthcare transformation for over 20 years.

This includes supporting the Mayor of London, senior policy work at LSE Cities, and establishing and leading the Centre for Urban Health and Healthcare at Imperial College London.

His work focuses on connecting evidence, data, city leadership and policy delivery to improve health and healthcare in cities.

City Health Evidence Finder, its database structure, taxonomy, original summaries, evidence coding, workflow and website have been created and are owned by Dr Shaun Danielli.

Individual source materials remain owned by their original publishers.

Institutional use, collaboration or adoption will be agreed separately.

This is an early public beta.

The evidence scan is run regularly. The website is updated weekly with new records and improvements to existing records.

Records pass a standard set of publication checks before they appear. They may be updated when stronger, newer or conflicting evidence is identified.

City Health Evidence Finder is a public beta. The database is being constantly checked and improved, with new initiatives added as they are identified.

You can:

• suggest a city initiative that is missing
• flag an error or outdated record
• provide a stronger, newer or conflicting source
• suggest a new search term, filter or feature
• comment on the website or search experience
• tell us how you have used the Finder or whether it has been helpful

Suggestions and corrections are checked before any change is made.

We may contact you for further information. Feedback will not be attributed to you or quoted publicly without your permission.