Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL) (“Urban Health in Latin America”) is a $12 million, five-year multi-country project that studies how urban environments and urban policies impact the health of city residents throughout Latin America. Through sharing evidence and insights with diverse audiences, the project aims to promote urban health on policy agendas and support planning processes to build healthier cities globally. Dr. Bilal will present preliminary results emerging from the SALURBAL project on neighborhood-level factors and health outcomes within and across Latin American cities.
Dr. Usama Bilal in an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health in Philadelphia, PA. His primary research interest lies in macrosocial determinants of health with his work currently focusing on the role of city- and neighborhood-level dynamics in generating disease and the use of complexity methodologies to study emergent properties of urban environments.
Dr. Bilal earned his PhD in Cardiovascular Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an MPH from the Universidad de Alcala (Spain) and his MD from the Universidad de Oviedo (Spain).
About the Urban Health Collaborative (UHC)
Launched in 2017, the UHC aims to champion urban health research & development in cities around the world and the Washington, DC area. The Collaborative is housed in the Department of International Health (School of Nursing & Health Studies). Contact: urbanhealth@