Data connects disciplines - from health scientists and ecologists to planners and designers, the data revolution is impacting all of us. This session aims to better understand the way data is being generated within scientific disciplines in coordination with interdisciplinary teams, and illustrates real-world applications of scientific data to planning and design work at multiple scales. Cities function like complex organisms comprised of buildings and infrastructure, residents and livelihoods, and natural resources. Research led by Vivek Shandas aims to better understand how these elements of the “urban ecosystem” interact and may help alleviate—or exacerbate—harmful byproducts such as greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. The nexus between ecological and social data is often framed through the lens of human health. Media reports on the beneficial effects of “forest bathing” in therapeutic landscapes are substantiated by peer-reviewed articles; and, correlational studies yield many exciting opportunities to pilot landscape change in the interest of human health. Less is known about the direct mechanisms by which these benefits are conveyed. Olyssa Starry will focus on her research on ecological characteristics and human health benefits of hospital greenroofs. While the scale of urban ecosystem data balanced with nuanced site scale studies of green roofs offers insight into the types of data being generated by scientists at the intersection between disciplines, this session also aims to offer insight about how existing scientific data are being applied innovatively to drive planning and design work. Amy Morris will focus on her work to include various types of innovative data in planning processes to drive more informed decision making about where parks investments will most impact community resilience. In the Pasadena, TX Healthy Parks Plan, Amy has worked with her team to incorporate over sixty data sets across into a City-wide analysis, focused on four factors: environmental vulnerability, socioeconomic vulnerability, parks access, and community health disparities. In her collaboration with Katie Coyne, they have created unique analyses to include factors such as species richness, urban heat island, habitat connectivity, environmental justice issues, and others. Katie’s work on these projects spans critically thinking about data analysis and understanding how to pair data with community input to ensure specific community contexts are considered, to using peer-reviewed research as a driving factor for the development of design guidelines for healthy parks and for the design of health and ecology-focused urban places.