Challenges and opportunities for urban health research in our complex and unequal cities

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Manuel Franco

Manuel Franco, Social and Urban Epidemiologist, is an associate faculty at the University of Alcalá and adjunct faculty in two institutions in the USA: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the City University of New York CUNY Graduate School of Public Health.

Ana V. Diez Roux

Ana V. Diez Roux is Dean of the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, where she directs the Urban Health Collaborative and leads the Wellcome Trust-funded Urban Health in Latin America (SALURBAL) research project: http://lacurbanhealth.org. Her research areas include social epidemiology and health disparities, environmental health effects, urban health, psychosocial factors in health, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, and the use of multilevel methods. She is internationally known for her research on the social determinants of population health and the study of how neighborhoods, particularly urban neighborhoods, affect health.

Usama Bilal

Usama Bilal is Assistant Professor in the Urban Health Collaborative and the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health. His primary research interest is the macrosocial determinants of health, specifically nutrition-related conditions and their upstream causes. Most of his work focuses on the role that city- and neighborhood-level dynamics have in generating disease, and the use of complexity methodologies to study the emergent properties of urban environments. He has earned degrees from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (PhD), Universidad de Alcala (MPH) and Universidad de Oviedo (MD).