The Healthy Places theme of ActEarly aims to improve understanding of the importance of environments in the prevention of non-communicable diseases and poor mental health and wellbeing.

The Connected Bradford Health & Environment research project aims to develop the methods to examine and analyse the relationships between the environment and health and well-being outcomes amongst people in the city of Bradford, UK. The project will develop novel geospatial research methods to aggregate environmental indicators and link these to detailed individual-level primary and secondary care data from 700,000 citizens in Bradford.

The MAPURBAN projects aims to bring to light differences in access to urban resources across the socio-economic and ethnic profile of three major cities. By comparing migrant arrival and settlement in Stockholm, Berlin and London, the project will integrate existing data on spatial inequality and urban segregation, and show how these affect migrant mobility and integration.