Members


Member	Country	Bio	Research Interests
Catalina González Uribe catalina.gonzalez@fsfb.org.co Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá	Colombia	Catalina González Uribe, PhD, MSc is a postdoctoral researcher at the Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá and a professor at Universidad de los Andes. Dr. González’s work focuses on qualitative and quantitative applied methods in urban and rural population health. She is particularly interested in sexual and reproductive health inequities and vector- transmitted diseases in Colombia.	;#Data and methods;#Epidemiology;#Infectious diseases;#Population health;#Sexual and reproductive health;#
Gary O'Donovan g.odonovan@uniandes.edu.co Universidad de los Andes	Colombia	Gary O’Donovan, PhD is an expert in physical activity and health increasingly interested in the bold policies and large-scale interventions that might actually increase physical activity and decrease air pollution. Dr. O’Donovan is a British citizen, but lives in Medellín, Colombia. His team’s paper about "weekend warriors" is important in demonstrating that the dose of activity undertaken in the Ciclovía is sufficient to reduce all-cause mortality risk.	;#Mobility and physical activity;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Population health;#
Manuel Ramírez–Zea mramirez@incap.int Instituto de Nutrición de Centroamérica y Panamá (INCAP)	Guatemala	Manuel Ramírez–Zea, MD, PhD is the general coordinator of the Centro Integral del INCAP para la Prevención de las Enfermedades Crónicas, which aims to build local and regional capacities for health promotion and diet-related chronic disease prevention and care. Dr. Ramírez–Zea is also the principal investigator and co- investigator for local and multicentric projects on nutrition and lifestyle-related chronic diseases, early life nutrition and human capital, micronutrient deficiencies, intervention models to promote healthy lifestyles, and capacity building in the prevention and control of nutrition-related chronic diseases.	;#Behavioral health;#Food systems;#Noncommunicable disease;#Nutrition;#Policy and impact evaluation;#
Marcio Alazraqui malazraqui@yahoo.com.ar Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús	Argentina	Marcio Alazraqui, MD, PhD, MPH is the director of graduate programs in epidemiology and a professor of epidemilogy at the the Universidad Nacional de Lanús. Dr. Alazraqui’s research focuses on mortality variations, health consequences of violence, and health disparities among the Argentine and Latin American populations.	;#Demography;#Epidemiology;#Population health;#Violence;#
Alejandro M Alvarez alvarez.m.alvarez@gmail.com Independent	United States	Mr. Alvarez is a public health professional who is passionate about developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating health-related policies, programs, and initiatives that aim to prevent non-communicable diseases through the lens of the social determinants of health; especially in vulnerable communities such as low-income individuals, migrants, older adults, women, children, among others. His international and domestic work experience, in policy, program, and research development and implementation, has allowed Mr. Alvarez to gain knowledge on these processes that he use on an ongoing basis to help decision-makers and stakeholders so they can create evidence-driven policies and programs that not only meet the needs of their population but that are also efficient and practical. His latest work, A Portrait of Latino Children: The Gap with Non-Latinos in Massachusetts, describes the educational, health, environmental, and socioeconomic challenges that Latino children face, and the impacts those gaps have on individual outcomes and in the population as a whole. This report is key to raising awareness of the current barriers Latino children face to develop an adequate policy response https://scholarworks.umb.edu/gaston_pubs/266/) His interests include the intersectionality of health, language, and research; community health; quality control in healthcare; program and policy monitoring and evaluation; primary care; preventive health-related initiatives in vulnerable communities; nutrition; obesity-related policy analysis; social determinants of health; occupational health; nutritional and epidemiological transitions due to economic development; health disparities in urban populations.	;#Noncommunicable disease;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Gender;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Pedro Amaral pedroamaral@cedeplar.ufmg.br Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Pedro Amaral, PhD is an associate professor in the Departamento de Ciências Econômicas of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and a fellow of the Center for Spatial Data Science of the University of Chicago. Dr. Amaral has experience in economics, focusing on regional and urban planning, working with regional imbalances, spatial econometrics, regional development, and urban networks. He serves as chair of the Regional Studies Association – Latin America Division and as co-editor of the Spatial Economic Analysis and Regional Studies and Regional Science journals.	;#Economics;#Regional studies;#Spatial analysis;#Urban planning;#
Karen Andes kandes@emory.edu Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University	United States	Karen Andes, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at Emory University. Since 2013, Dr. Andes has taught qualitative data analysis in Spanish at the summer institute of the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública in Mexico. She has also worked in Paraguay focusing on adolescent sexual and reproductive health and collaborated with Manna Project International in Managua, Nicaragua developing comparable case studies of informal urban settlements in Latin America. She is currently working to develop additional collaborations in Mexico City and Costa Rica.	;#Data and methods;#Global health;#Political sciences;#Regional studies;#Sexual and reproductive health;#
Andréa Araujo de Vasconcellos andreavasconcellos.arq@gmail.com Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)	Brazil	Andréa Araujo de Vasconcellos is an architect and Urbanist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) that holds two M.A. degrees in Environmental Engineering and Public Administration. She has been working urbanist in the framework of public servant at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) since 2013 in various management positions. Dr. Vasconcellos is currently part of the health, environment and sustainability teams of the Vice-Presidency for Environment, Attention and Health Promotion and of the FIOVRUZ Strategy for Agenda 2030 and coordinates the Institutional Program for Sustainable and Healthy Territories.	;#Urban studies;#Urban planning;#Environment and sustainability;#Engineering;#
Rodrigo Arce Cardozo rodrigokarce@gmail.com Umea University / San Simon University	Sweden	Dr. Rodrigo K. Arce Cardozo, obtained his Medicine and Surgery degree and a Graduate Certificate on Higher Education. He completed his Master of Public Health (MPH) with an emphasis in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the School of Public Health and Health Policy at the City University of New York, USA. He is currently pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in medical sciences at the Department of Epidemiology and Global Health at Umea University, Faculty of Medicine, in Sweden. In addition to his academic and clinical training, Dr. Arce Cardozo has held various professional positions, including Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Hunter College School of Urban Public Health of the City University of New York and Learner in Population Health at the Center for United States CDC Disease Control. He has also been a project manager in the Department of Population Health at the NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Arce Cardozo has received several awards and honors, including the Weill Cornell School of Medicine's Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences K-30 Award and the Dean's Service Award from the Weill Cornell School of Public Health and Health Policy.	;#Population health;#
Amy Auchincloss aha27@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Amy Aunchicloss, PhD, MPH is a social and environmental epidemiologist. Her research focuses on methods development and social and environmental determinants of chronic health conditions. Her on-going work examines risk factors within residential environments that influence health behaviors related to obesity and type 2 diabetes. Dr. Aunchicloss has used spatial/GIS methods as well as simulation tools from complex systems modeling in order to examine these topics.	;#Behavioral health;#Epidemiology;#Food systems;#Geographic information systems;#Noncommunicable disease;#Nutrition;#Public policy;#Social determinants;#Spatial analysis;#Systems science;#
Hector Balcazar hectorbalcazar@cdrewu.edu College of Science and Health, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science	United States	Hector Balcazar, PhD, MSc is the Dean of the College of Science and Health of Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science. Prior to this position, Dr. Balcazar served as Regional Dean of Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston where he was also a tenured professor of health promotion and behavioral sciences. Dr. Balcazar also served for 10 years as the co-director of the Hispanic Health Disparities Research Center. He has conducted numerous studies of Latino birth outcomes, acculturation and health related behaviors, cardiovascular disease prevention programs in Latinos, and border health issues.	;#Behavioral health;#Noncommunicable disease;#Nutrition;#Population health;#
Martha Barata baratamml@gmail.com Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)	Brazil	Martha Barata, PhD, MA is a professor and research scientist at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Dr. Barata is also a member of the Steering Group of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) and the Steering Group of the Sustainable Development Research Network- Brazil (SDSN Brasil). Dr. Barata collaborates with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and coordinates research projects designed to contribute to public management. Her research interests include economics and environmental health, focusing on urban climate risk management, mapping of vulnerability to climate risk in city populations, and the social costs of natural disasters.	;#Climate change;#Economics;#Environment and sustainability;#Public administration and management;#
Rebecca Barbosa de Decco Monteiro Marinho rebecca.fisio@yahoo.com.br Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Rebecca Barbosa de Decco Monteiro Marinho is a current Master-level research assistant for the Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL) Project based at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Her main research interests are in health inequities within cities, urban health, and adolescent violence.	;#Epidemiology;#Population health;#Social determinants;#Urban studies;#Violence;#
Joaquin Barnoya barnoyaj@wudosis.wustl.edu Department of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis	Guatemala	Joaquin Barnoya, MD, MPH is an associate professor in the Division of Public Health Sciences in the Department of Surgery. Dr. Barnoya's research is focused on tobacco control in St. Louis and chronic disease prevention in Guatemala. He also leads a chronic disease prevention research training program in Guatemala and has served as an advisor for several medical students who have done electives in Guatemala.	;#Behavioral health;#Food systems;#Noncommunicable disease;#Nutrition;#Medicine;#Population health;#
Mauricio Barreto mauricio.barreto@bahia.fiocruz.br Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde (CIDACS), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)	Brazil	Mauricio Barreto, MD, PhD, MPH is a senior researcher at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz and a professor of epidemiology and collective health at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. Dr. Barreto’s interests include the study of social and environmental determinants of health, as well as the evaluation of the impact of health technologies and social programs on population health.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Epidemiology;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Tonatiuh Barrientos tbarrientos@insp.mx Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP)	Mexico	Tonatiuh Barrientos MD, PhD, MSc is a researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Dr. Barrientos’s research focuses on occupational, environmental and social epidemiology with a particular interest in drug, alcohol, and tobacco use in work environments and exposure measurement and statistical modeling of environmental data.	;#Behavioral health;#Data and methods;#Epidemiology;#Food systems;#Nutrition;#Social determinants;#
Rachel Belt rachel.belt@wrh.ox.ac.uk University of Oxford	United Kingdom	Co-chair of the Urban Immunization Working Group (Global) Previous lead of urban health programmes at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Current researcher (DPhil) in the Peak Urban Programme at the University of Oxford with research in digital health methods in Port-au-Prince	;#Infectious diseases;#Gender;#Population health;#
Usama Bilal ub45@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Usama Bilal, MD, MPH, PhD is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University. Dr. Bilal’s main research interest revolves around the macrosocial determinants of chronic diseases, with a specific interest in nutrition-related conditions and their upstream causes. Among his interests are 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. Dr. Bilal has also conducted research on the social and clinical determinants of smoking and alcohol consumption.	;#Data and methods;#Epidemiology;#Food systems;#Noncommunicable disease;#Nutrition;#Medicine;#Social determinants;#Systems science;#
Ietza Bojorquez ietzabch@colef.mx El Colegio de la Frontera Norte	Mexico	Dr. Bojorquez is a Researchers and Professor at El Colef, Tijuana, Mexico. She holds a a PhD in Epidemiology, and her research focuses on the social determination of health and disease. Among her areas of interest are the intersection between urban environments and health, and in 2018 she lead a project on public spaces and physical activity. More recently she has focused on migration and health, and is interested in urban environments as places of inclusion or exclusion for migrants.	;#Urban planning;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Andrea Bolinaga ab4488@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	Venezuela	Andrea Bolinaga, MSc is the Senior Communications Specialist for the Salud Urbana en América Latina (Urban Health in Latina America) project of the Urban Health Network for Latin America and the Caribbean. Mrs. Bolinaga manages outreach and engagement with a range of stakeholders, including policymakers, researchers and practitioners, civil society, and the private sector.	;#Communications;#International affairs;#
Jorge Bonilla jobonill@uniandes.edu.co https://jobonill.wixsite.com/jorgebonilla Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes	Colombia	Jorge Bonilla, PhD, MA is an environmental economist and assistant professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes & Director of the Research Group on Environmental, Natural Resource, and Applied Economic Studies. Dr. Bonilla’s research interests are the performance of environmental policy instruments and the use of real time data provided by Apps to conduct impact evaluation. His recent research is focused on the economic effect of industry and transport activity on air pollution, studying the effectiveness, costs, and benefits of policy interventions designed to cut congestion and emissions, and analyzing how firms and drivers respond to different kinds of environmental regulations.	;#Data and methods;#Economics;#Environment and sustainability;#
Paulo Fernando Braga Carvalho paulofernando1512@gmail.com Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Paulo Fernando Braga Carvalho, PhD works with spatial information processing from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas). Dr. Braga Carvalho is currently a professor at PUC Minas in the graduate geography program in spatial information processing. He has experience in the areas of spatial analysis and quantitative methods, working primarily with the following themes: spatial analysis, quantitative methods, and spatial statistics.	;#Data and methods;#Geography;#Geographic information systems;#Spatial analysis;#
Bridgette Brawner brawnerb@upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania	United States	Bridgette Brawner, PhD, MDiv, MSN is a nurse scientist and community-engaged researcher whose scholarship is rooted in cutting edge research methods. Dr. Brawner’s work examines multi-level influences on health, and design and test interventions to help mitigate risk and bolster protective factors. Her research is focused on the complex and systemic needs of disadvantaged communities, including racial and ethnic minorities in low-income urban environments. Dr. Brawner has expertise in neighborhood-level influences on health, psychiatric mental health, mixed methods research, community-based elicitation work and intervention science.	;#Behavioral health;#Biological sciences;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Langellier Brent bal95@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Brent Langellier, PhD, MA is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Dr. Langellier conducts research to understand and address the mechanisms that produce health disparities, particularly among racial/ethnic minorities and the poor. He conducts observational research using a variety of primary and secondary data sources, as well as multilevel intervention research in minority communities. Currently, Dr. Langellier uses complex systems methodologies (e.g., agent-based simulation models) to disentangle complex systems of factors that interact to produce health and health care disparities.	;#Data and methods;#Public policy;#Population health;#Regional studies;#Social determinants;#Systems science;#
Roberto Briceño-Leon roberto.bricenoleon@gmail.com Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia, Universidad de Central de Venezuela	Venezuela	Roberto Briceño Leon, PhD, MSc is a professor of sociology and parasitology at the Universidad de Central de Venezuela and the director of the Laboratorio de Ciencias Sociales. Dr. Briceño Leon also coordinates the Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia. His work focuses on the social and environmental aspects of vector- transmitted diseases and violence and insecurity in urban areas.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Infectious diseases;#Regional studies;#Social determinants;#Sociology;#Violence;#
Melissa Burroughs Peña melissa.s.burroughs@dm.duke.edu Duke Global Health Institute	United States	Melissa Burroughs Peña, MD, MSc is a cardiology researcher at the Duke Global Health Center. She was previously a assistant professor of cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco. Burroughs Peña’s research interests include the effect of urban development policy and environmental exposures on cardiovascular disease outcomes. She focuses much of her work in low- and middle-income countries, including research in Peru on the effect of air pollution on cardiac structure and function. She has previously interned at the Pan American Health Organization working on hypertension surveillance in Latin America and the Caribbean.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Noncommunicable disease;#Medicine;#Public policy;#
Pamela Carbajal pamela.carbajal@un.org United Nations- Habitat in Nairobi, Kenya	Kenya	Pamela Carbajal is an architect working as an Urban health and regional consultant at UN-Habitat in Nairobi Kenya. She is the manager of the "Integrating health into urban and territorial planning" program balancing daily operations (e.g. guidance, tools, global sharing knowledge), country-specific support (e.g. Capacity building and training on integrating health into urban and territorial planning), and partners engagement and coordination. Ms. Carbajal is originally from Mexico where she worked as a freelance professional on various projects around the country.	;#Architecture;#Environment and sustainability;#Policy and impact evaluation;#
Letícia Cardoso leticiaocar@ensp.fiocruz.br Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Brazil	Letícia Cardoso, PhD, MSc is a researcher at the Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública of the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Dr. Cardoso is also a member of the research team of the Longitudinal Adult Health Study (ESLA-Brasil).	;#Epidemiology;#Food systems;#Health systems;#Nutrition;#
Mariana Carvalho de Menezes mariana.menezes@ensp.fiocruz.br Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) - Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Mariana Menezes, MSc, PhD is a research assistant at the National School of Public Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ENSP-FIOCRUZ). Dr. Menezes is a member of the research team of the Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL) and also a member of the Interventions in Nutrition research group of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Her research focuses on nutritional epidemiology; her interests include the study of food environments, food intake, lifestyle interventions, and food policy.	;#Behavioral health;#Epidemiology;#Food systems;#Nutrition;#Public policy;#Population health;#
José Caléia Castro jccaleia2@gmail.com School of Design, University of Pennsylvania	Angola	José Caléia Castro, MSc. is an architect and urban planner with a Master of Urban and Regional Planning. Mr. Castro is a current PhD student in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked extensively in Angola and Brazil and particularly focuses on informal transport, urban space structuring, urban and regional planning, and urban development in the metropoles of developing countries.	;#Architecture;#Environment and sustainability;#Mobility and physical activity;#Transportation systems;#Urban planning;#
Adrián Estuardo Chávez García adrianchavezg502@gmail.com Instituto de Problemas Nacionales de la Universidad de San Carlos (IPNUSAC)	Guatemala	Adrian Estuardo Chávez García, MD is a surgeon and MPH candidate. Dr. Chávez García completed medical residency in infectiology and rehabilitation and has also worked as a technical assistant in the Monitoring and Evaluation Supervision Unit and in Strategic Planning for the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance. He has held various faculty positions and served as the head of the Health and Social Security Division of the Institute of National Problems (IPNUSAC). Dr. Chávez García is currently the head of the Division of Health and Social Security at IPUNSAC.	;#Health systems;#Infectious diseases;#Medicine;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Population health;#
Uriyoán Colon-Ramos uriyoan@gwu.edu George Washington University	United States	Dr. Uriyoán Colón-Ramos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and the Department of Exercise and Nutrition Science at the George Washington University. She is a public health nutrition investigator with expertise working in Latin America and the Caribbean, and with minority populations in the United States. She has published about mortality and diet-related chronic disease morbidity in Puerto Rico, and was born and grew up in Puerto Rico.	;#Epidemiology;#Food systems;#Noncommunicable disease;#Nutrition;#Population health;#Public administration and management;#
Carlos Contreras carlos.contreras@munlima.gob.pe Municipalidad de Miraflores	Peru	Carols Contreras, MD is the current Human Development Manager of the Municipality of Miraflores. Dr. Contreras is a physician by training and has a Master’s degree in Project Management and Social programs from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, with a post-graduate specialization in Social Management from the Institute of Social Development of the Inter-American Development Bank. He is a graduate of the Health Promotion Diploma and has extensive experience in management and public administration in the local, national, and regional spheres.	;#Business and private sector;#Economics;#Government;#Health systems;#Medicine;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#Population health;#Public administration and management;#
Andrea Cortínez andrea.cortinez@uc.cl Departamento de Salud Pública, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Ufroactivate Research Group, Universidad de la Frontera	Chile	Andrea Cortínez, MSc is a researcher in public health at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a member of the research Group Ufroactivate of the Universidad de la Frontera. Ms. Cortinez’s research interests focus on physical activity promotion through active transport and built environment interventions, with special attention to gender and socioeconomic disparities.	;#Behavioral health;#Nutrition;#Mobility and physical activity;#Social determinants;#
Heloisa Costa heloisasmcosta@gmail.com Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Heloisa Costa, PhD, MSc is a professor in the Departamento de Geografia at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Dr. Costa’s primary research focus is related to urban and environmental politics and planning, as well as housing and public policies. Her recent projects include Project Nature and City in the Periphery and ADEPT: Developing the Ecosystem Approach to Derive Positive Urban Transformations in the Context of Intersecting Vulnerabilities.	;#Architecture;#Demography;#Environment and sustainability;#Geography;#Housing;#Public policy;#Urban planning;#
Sandra Costa de Oliveira sandraco@usp.br CEPEDOC/FSP/USP	Brazil	Sandra Costa de Oliveira, PhD holds a Doctoral degree in Global Health and Sustainability from Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and currently works in the Centro de Documentação em Cidades at USP. Dr. Costa has experience in the area of public policy, having worked in the Mayor’s cabinent for the Municipal Government of the city of Ubatuba, São Paulo. Her previous experience includes multiple teaching appointments at the university level, research projects, and serving as an editor of journals.	;#Global health;#Government;#Public policy;#Sustainable development;#
Aldo Crossa acrossa@gmail.com New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene	United States	Aldo Crossa, MSc is a research scientist for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. His work involves using survey data to study social determinants of health, particularly the effects of active transportation and economic displacement on chronic conditions like obesity, hypertension and diabetes. He has a special interest in spatial methods and using new technologies to evaluate neighborhood level effects. Prior to his current position, he worked for over ten years on infectious disease surveillance (specifically tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections in adolescents).	;#Data and methods;#Infectious diseases;#Noncommunicable disease;#Mobility and physical activity;#Social determinants;#Spatial analysis;#
Genaro Cuadros genarocuadros.arq@gmail.com Laboratorio Ciudad y Territorio (LCT), Universidad Diego Portales	Chile	Genaro Cuadros, MSc is a researcher and director of the Laboratorio Ciudad y Territorio of Universidad Diego Portales. Mr. Cuadros is also an urban adviser in public policies related to urban heritage and the regeneration of neighborhoods and an international consultant in matters of public safety and urban planning. He is an architect by training.	;#Architecture;#Public policy;#Urban planning;#Urban studies;#
Maria da Consolação Magalhães Cunha consolacaocunha@pucminas.br Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Maria da Consolação Magalhães Cunha, PhD worked in the Department of Health of the state of Minas Gerais from 1985-2015. Dr. Cunha currently a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (2000-present) and researcher at the Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.	;#Epidemiology;#Health systems;#Population health;#Public administration and management;#
Nelson da Cruz Gouveia ngouveia@usp.br Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	Nelson da Cruz Gouveia, MD, PhD, MSc is an associate professor in the Departamento de Medicina Preventiva at the Faculdade de Medicina of the Universidade de São Paulo. Dr. Gouveia is the vice-president of ABRASCO (The Brazilian Association of Collective Health) and a member of its Health and the Environment group. His research focuses on environmental health, with a focus on air pollution, electromagnetic fields, chemical exposures, water pollution and geographic information systems.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Epidemiology;#Geographic information systems;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Transportation systems;#
Dário Alves da Silva Costa darioalves_sc@yahoo.com.br Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Dário Alves da Silva Costa is a public health professional and current researcher at the Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. His interests and experiences include statistical analyses, applied health statistics, epidemiology, and urban health.	;#Data and methods;#Economics;#Health systems;#Population health;#
Rita de Cássia Novaes Barretto rb.cidacs@gmail.com Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde (CIDACS), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)	Brazil	Rita de Cássia Novaes Barretto, Eng. is a researcher at CIDACS Fiocruz and lecturer at University Center Jorge Amado. Currently, Barreto is a PhD student in Computer Science at Federal University of Bahia. A GIS specialist, Barretto has held positions at the Federal University of Bahia, as a Project Manager for the General Prosecutor's Office of the State of Bahia and the Civil House of the Government of the State of Bahia, and as a data manager in telecoms.	;#Data and methods;#Geographic information systems;#
Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche gutafriche@gmail.com Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, PhD, MA is an assistant professor at the Faculdade de Medicina of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Dr. Friche is also a researcher and deputy-director of the Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte. She has expertise in epidemiology, with an emphasis on multi-level studies and individual and contextual social determinants of health.	;#Data and methods;#Epidemiology;#Social determinants;#
Lídia Maria de Oliveira Morais lidia.salurbal@gmail.com Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Lídia Maria de Oliveira Morais, MA is a research assistant for the SALURBAL project at Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte based at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. Ms. Oliveira Morais’ main interest areas are comprehensive urban development and the relationship between socio-cultural and natural environments.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Sustainable development;#Sociology;#Urban studies;#
Thiago Hérick de Sá herickdesat@who.int Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	Thiago Hérick de Sá, PhD, MPH has been a professor in the master’s and doctoral programs in health sciences at the Faculdade de Medicina do ABC and a researcher at the Núcleo de Pesquisas Epidemiológicas em Nutrição e Saúde of the Universidade de São Paulo since 2012. Dr. de Sá’s research interests are at the intersection between transportation, public health, equity in health and environmental sustainability, with a particular focus on daily activities.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Epidemiology;#Mobility and physical activity;#Systems science;#Transportation systems;#
Maria Angélica de Salles Dias angelica@pbh.gov.br Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Maria Angélica de Salles Dias, MD, MA is a doctor by training and a medical epidemiologist having worked for 30 years in the health departments of the state of Minas Gerais and the municipality of Belo Horizonte. Dr. de Salles Dias is currently a researcher at the Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte and a doctoral student in collective health. Her research interests are in aeras related to collective health, including spatial analysis, geoprocessing, health promotion and social determinants of health, intersectionality, health in large urban areas, and the evaluations of the health impact of interventions related to social and urban public policies that transcend the health sector.	;#Epidemiology;#Government;#Health systems;#Medicine;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#Population health;#Public administration and management;#Social determinants;#Spatial analysis;#
Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade amandasouza_est@yahoo.com.br Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade, MSc is a current PhD student in Public Health at the Faculdade de Medicina of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Ms. Sousa’s main research interests are individual and contextual social determinants of health.	;#Behavioral health;#Data and methods;#Epidemiology;#Mobility and physical activity;#Social determinants;#
Francisco Del Río fcdelrio@uc.cl Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile	Francisco Del Río is a masters student of epidemiology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile with a particular interest in Food Sociology from an interdisciplinary approach. Francisco works as a professor in the Undergraduate major of Nutrition and Dietetics at PUC Chile and conducts research on how urban characteristics influence food use and choice related to health.	;#Epidemiology;#Food systems;#Nutrition;#
Vanessa Di Cecco vanessa.dicecco@gmail.com Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús	Argentina	Vanessa Di Cecco, MPH is a professor and researcher at the National University of Lanús in the area of epidemiology. Her current research areas include health inequalities, the social determination of health, mortality patterns and trends, and gender and sexuality.	;#Epidemiology;#Gender;#Population health;#Sexual and reproductive health;#Social determinants;#
Sonia Maria Dias sonia.dias@wiego.org Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Sonia Maria Dias, PhD has played a key role in helping to integrate social aspects into the technical planning of waste collection and recycling. Dr. Dias has previously worked as a city officer for the Municipality of Belo Horizonte. She has an MsC in Human Geography, concentrating on the role of local governments in strengthening waste picker organizations and a PhD in Political Science, focusing on the role of participation in solid waste management in Brazil.	;#Economics;#Environment and sustainability;#Government;#Political sciences;#
Ana V. Diez Roux avd37@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH is a distinguished professor of epidemiology and Dean of the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Dr. Diez Roux’s research focuses on the social determinants of population health and the study of how neighborhoods affect health. Other areas of her research include chronic disease epidemiology, psychosocial factors and health, air pollution and health, urban health, race/ethnic health disparities, and health in Latin America.	;#Data and methods;#Epidemiology;#Noncommunicable disease;#Medicine;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#Population health;#
Maria Izabel Dos Santos izabel.bell@outlook.com https://cidacs.bahia.fiocruz.br/ Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde (CIDACS), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)	Brazil	Izabel Dos Santos, MS holds a master's degree in economics from the Federal University of Bahia (2013), with a dissertation on health efficiency and income inequality in the state of Bahia. She holds a bachelor of science degree in Economics from the Federal University of Goiás (2010). She has experience in health economics, focusing on econometric and statistical models, acting on the following subjects: inequality, productive efficiency and public policy evaluation.	;#Economics;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#Social determinants;#
Ana Clara Duran anaduran@usp.br Núcleo de Pesquisas Epidemiológicas em Nutrição e Saúde, Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	Ana Clara Duran, PhD, MS is currently a research fellow at the Núcleo de Pesquisas Epidemiológicas em Nutrição e Saúde of the Universidade de São Paulo. Her research interests are related to social and environmental determinants of diet and health outcomes, as well as the evaluation of food, nutritional, and social policies and programs.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Epidemiology;#Nutrition;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#
Antonia Errazuriz anerrazuriz@uc.cl Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile	Antonia Errazuriz, PhD, is an academic at the Department of Psychiatry of the School of Medicine at the Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. Her background is in psychology and my research interests are centered around the impact of immigration on mental health and the epidemiology of common mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries.	;#Health systems;#Epidemiology;#Psychology;#
Nilson Ariel Espino naespino@grupo-suma.com Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua	Panama	Nilson Ariel Espino, PhD, MSc is the director of the Foro y Observatorio Urbano and lecturer of the Panama Field Study Semester course of McGill University. Dr. Espino’s research focuses on affordable housing, informal housing, and urban social segregation.	;#Architecture;#Housing;#Urban planning;#Urban studies;#
Lorena Estrada-Martinez lorena.estrada@umb.edu University of Massachusetts, Boston	United States	Lorena Estrada Martinez, PhD, MPH is Assistant Professor of Urban Public Health at UMass Boston. Her research focuses on trajectories of mental health in light of changing neighborhood and family contexts.	;#Behavioral health;#Population health;#Psychology;#
Laís Fajersztajn laisfajer@gmail.com Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	Laís Fajersztajn, PhD received is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo. Dr. Fajersztajn has been studying urban health since 2009, first with NGOs, and from 2012, in academic positions. At the Institute of Advanced Studies, she is the vice-coordinator of a study group on Urban Space and Health issues (focus on spatial analysis) and collaborates on a project aimed at studying sustainability and policies at the city level using tools of complex systems methods.	;#Public policy;#Population health;#Sustainable development;#Spatial analysis;#Systems science;#
Breno Fernandes Mendes brenofm21@gmail.com Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Breno Fernandes Mendes is a socioenvironmental scientist and current research fellow at the Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health. Mr. Mendes is also a member of the epidemiology research group at the School of Medicine of the Federal University of Minas Gerais.	;#Epidemiology;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Julián Alfredo Fernández Niño aninoj@uninorte.edu.co Universidad de Norte	Colombia	Julián Alfredo Fernández Niño, MD, PhD has served as a research professor at the School of Public Health of Mexico and was the Head of the Department of Epidemiological Analysis and Spatial Statistics of the Information Center for Public Health Decisions (CENIDSP) in Mexico. He is currently a professor at the Department of Public Health of the Universidad del Norte. Dr. Fernández Niño’s areas of interest include social epidemiology, mental health, aging and, recently, the relationship between migration and health. Additionally, he is increasingly interested in the difficulties in incorporating the methodological approaches of social epidemiology to the rural contexts of social conflict, human displacement, and ethnicity in Latin America.	;#Data and methods;#Epidemiology;#Noncommunicable disease;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Silvia Fontan silvifontan@gmail.com Universidad de La Matanza, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Argentina	Silvia Fontan, PhD, is a professor of sociology at the University of La Matanza in Buenos Aires, Argentina and is also a co-researcher at the Programa de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo y Transferencia de Tecnología e Innovaciones de la Universidad Nacional de La Matanza (CyTMA2). She holds a PhD in Urban Studies and has taken part of numerous epidemiological studies around the area including her most recent one as analyzing mortality associated with low temperatures across the country.	;#Urban studies;#Epidemiology;#Sociology;#
Anderson Freitas anders.cidacs@outlook.com Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde (CIDACS), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)	Brazil	Graduated in Land Surveying Engineering and Cartography. Experience in the fields of topographical surveying and area measurement, rural and urban cadaster, allotments, production of geospatial data, maps, charts, spatial analysis of georeferenced data. Execution of descriptive analysis of data. Organization of cartographic database for the city of Salvador for an evaluation of public health policies. Organization of technical reports.	;#Data and methods;#Geography;#Geographic information systems;#
Luisa Carolina Garcés Murillo lgarcesmurillo@gmail.com Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Mexico	Ms. Garcés Murillo holds a Master's Degree in Health Sciences with a disciplinary concentration in Epidemiology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.	;#Epidemiology;#Population health;#
Fatima Ghani fatima.ghani@unu.edu International Institute for Global Health, United Nations University	United Nations System	Fatima Ghani, PhD is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Institute for Global Health (United Nations University) working on a range of international projects, including Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL). Dr. Ghani has also worked within the Australian Public Health sector in a range of projects involving communicable and non-communicable diseases, and in roles including health promotion, health surveillance, policy development and data analysis at the Australian Government Department of Health, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the former Australian National Preventive Health Agency. In 2017, Dr. Ghani was a member of the International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) Communications Committee.	;#Epidemiology;#Infectious diseases;#Noncommunicable disease;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Sandra Viviana Gordon Contador sgordonc@gmail.com Municipality of Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Sandra Gordon is an architect with experience in social projects involving basic sanitation and social infrastructure, public education policies, and the evaluation of social projects. Ms. Gordon has gained further experience with the development and implementation of social urbanist projects working with the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro with programs financed by the Inter-American Development Bank. She has previously worked with the city of Santiago de Chile in roles related to public program planning and the development of educational infrastructure projects. Ms. Gordon has also worked with various private sector urban design projects in Spain.	;#Architecture;#Urban planning;#
Michael Harvey michael.harvey@temple.edu Temple University	United States	Michael Harvey, DrPH, is an assistant professor at Temple University’s Department of Health Services and Administration Policy and teaches on comparative health policy as well as policy and payments in the U.S. health system. He has an ongoing research project in Guatemala where he is exploring the experiences of rural, indigenous Guatemalans seeking non-primary health care services in regional urban centers and the capital, Guatemala City. YES	;#Global health;#Public administration and management;#Public policy;#
M. Augusta Hermida augusta.hermida@ucuenca.edu.ec Universidad de Cuenca	Ecuador	María Augusta Hermida, PhD, received her degree in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. She is the director of the Research Group for Sustainable Cities Directora del Grupo de investigación Ciudades Sustentables (LlactaLAB). She is the principal professor of the Architecture and Urbanism department at the University. Her research focuses on themes related to urban architecture and design, sustainability, and the resilience of Latin American cities.	;#Architecture;#Climate change;#Sustainable development;#Urban planning;#
Philipp Hessel Escuela de Gobierno Alberto Lleras Camargo, Universidad de los Andes	Colombia	Philipp Hessel, PhD is an associate professor at the Escuela de Gobierno at the Universidad de Los Andes. Dr. Hessel’s research combines demography, public health, and gerontology and employs cross-national data from Europe, the United States and Latin America. In particular, his work focuses on the role of social protection programs in mitigating adverse labor market shocks, as well as the health-effects of pension reforms across Latin America.	;#Demography;#Economics;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#Population health;#
Martha Hijar mhijar@fundacionentornos.org Fundación Entornos; Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP)	Mexico	Martha Hijar, PhD, MPH is the research coordinator at Fundación Entornos. Dr. Hijar is a senior professor and researcher with professional experiences for more than 34 years, particulary with a focus on injuries and violence. She also worked for 24 years at the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública and the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization where she was the former director of the Collaborative Center on Injury and Violence Research. Dr. Hijar as also worked in the federal government as Technical Secretary of the National Council for Injury Prevention.	;#Global health;#Government;#Health systems;#Injury;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#Population health;#Violence;#
Simon Hodson simon@codata.org CODATA, Committee on Data of the International Science Council	France	Simon Hodson is the Executive Director of CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Science Council). Simon is an expert on data policy issues and research data management. He has contributed to influential reports on Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies and to the Science International Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World. Most recently he chaired the European Commission's Expert Group on FAIR Data. As part of his CODATA role, Simon is closely involved in an ISC and CODATA initiative to improve the coordination of standards for data integration and interoperability for interdisciplinary research and in the coordination of the CODATA Data Policy Committee.	;#Computational sciences;#Data and methods;#Geographic information systems;#Spatial analysis;#
Andy Hong andyhong@gmail.com The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford	United Kingdom	Andy Hong, PhD, MPA, MUP is a Lead Urban Health Scientist at The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford. Dr. Hong is also Co-founder of the Healthy Cities Network, a global nexus of innovators dedicated to sharing cutting-edge information on urban health. His research seeks to bridge the gap between data science, geography, and public health and work with civic leaders, urban planners, health practitioners, and community members to develop evidence-based policy solutions to a wide range of environmental health challenges in marginalized communities.	;#Data and methods;#Geographic information systems;#Population health;#Urban planning;#
Katy Indvik kbi24@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Katy Indvik, MSc is the Policy Officer on the Salud Urbana en América Latina based in Chile. In her current role, Ms. Indvik leads policy translation and outreach activities aimed at connecting the project with stakeholders and coordinating platforms for dissemination. Ms. Indvik has a background in environmental and political sicence, with an emphasis on climate change impacts, adaptations, and resilience. She has particulary focused her work on bridging the science-policy gap within academia and nonprofit sectors, as well as on issues of international cooperation and development perspectives.	;#Climate change;#Environment and sustainability;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Political sciences;#Public policy;#Sustainable development;#
Ricardo Jordán Fuchs ricardojordanfuchs@gmail.com United Nations Economic Comission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL)	United Nations System	Ricardo Jordán Fuchs, MSc is the chief of the Human Settlements Unit of the Division of Sustainable Development and Human Settlements. Mr. Jordán has coordinated several projects on urban local management and assistance to municipalities in cities in Latin America and the Caribbean.	;#Geography;#Housing;#International affairs;#Regional studies;#Sustainable development;#Urban planning;#
Clara Juárez Ramírez clara.juarez@insp.mx Centro de Investigación en Sistemas de Salud, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP)	Mexico	Clara Juárez Ramírez, PhD has worked as a Research Professor at Centro de Investigación en Sistemas de Salud of the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública since 1995. Dr. Juárez Ramírez is the author and co-author of books, book chapters, scientific articles, and various dissemination materials about social determinants of health and their impact on the organization of the health system. She is a member of Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, a Level 1 distinction granted by Mexico’s Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología.	;#Health systems;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Vera Kiss vera.kiss@cepal.org United Nations Economic Comission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL)	United Nations System	Vera Kiss, MPH is an associate economic affairs officer in the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division. Ms. Kiss focuses on sustainable urban development and most recently coordinated the Latin America and Caribbean regional report for Habitat III for the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development held in Quito in October 2016.	;#International affairs;#Regional studies;#Sustainable development;#
Clavdia Kochergin ckochergin62@gmail.com Universidade Federal da Bahia	Brazil	Clavdia Kochergin, PhD has a background in nursing and holds a Master’s and Doctoral degree in Public Health from the Federal University of Minas Gerais with a concentration in epidemiology. Dr. Kochergin is current professor of Nursing at the Federal University of Bahia- Vitória da Conquista, specializing in adult health, preoperative nursing, and collective health.	;#Epidemiology;#Health systems;#Population health;#
Jonatan Konfino jkonfino@gmail.com Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES)	Argentina	Jonatan Konfino, MD, MsC is a medical doctor, holds a Masters in Clinical Effectiveness and is a PhD candidate in Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires. He is a researcher at the Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES)and a professor in Public Health at the Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche, as well as an academic consultant of the Sovereignty in Health Foundation. He has experience in public health administration at the national and local level, after directing health programs and evidence-based interventions at a population level at the national Ministry of Health.	;#Noncommunicable disease;#Medicine;#Public administration and management;#
Alejandra Leal alejandra.leal@centrico.mx Céntrico S.C.	Mexico	Alejandra Leal is a specialist in pedestrian and cycling mobility in urban areas, road safety, and public-private partnerships. Ms. Leal holds a BSc in Economics from CIDE (Mexico) and Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance (Germany). She currently works as the Co-Director of Céntrico S.C., a social enterprise focused on sustainable urban mobility projects, where her responsibilities include serving as a liaison between the government and civil society.	;#Gender;#Government;#Mobility and physical activity;#Public policy;#
Adriana C. Lein acl326@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Adriana Lein, MSc was previously the Communications and Outreach Specialist for the Salud Urbana en América Latina (Urban Health in Latina America) project of the Urban Health Network for Latin America and the Caribbean. Ms. Lein managed outreach and engagement with a range of stakeholders, including policymakers, researchers and practitioners, civil society, and the private sector. Her interests include social policy, sustainable development, inclusive growth, governance, and human rights.	;#Communications;#Global health;#Health systems;#International affairs;#Public policy;#Population health;#
Osvaldo Leyva Camacho oleyca@uabc.edu.mx Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California	Mexico	Dr. Osvaldo Leyva Camacho is passionate about the academic world and research, with a special focus on architecture, urbanization and sustainable development. He holds PhD in Social Sciences with a Specialization in Regional Studies from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, a Master's Degree in Architecture and a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC). He is a Professor and Senior Researcher, contributing my bit to the training of future professionals and researchers. He has been in front of bachelor's, master's and doctoral classes, transmitting knowledge in areas such as geographic information systems, computer-aided design, sustainable development and applied dynamic modeling. As a researcher, he has been part of the National System of Researchers (SNI) Level I and has collaborated in CONACYT thematic research networks. He has led and participated in various research projects, where he explored the spatial-temporal dynamics and the patterns of land use and coverage in the City of Mexicali, as well as the spatial patterns of the segregation of poverty.	;#Geography;#Environment and sustainability;#
Gabriela Lima Diniz gabriela.lima.diniz@gmail.com Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Gabriela Lima Diniz is a current researcher at the Belo Horizonte Urban Health Observatory of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. She has experience in the areas or urban and regional geography, socio-environmental and socioeconomic research, and spatial analysis.	;#Geography;#Population health;#Social determinants;#Spatial analysis;#
Uriel Lomelí-Carrillo uriel.lomeli@gmail.com The University of Texas at San Antonio	United States	Uriel Lomelí-Carrillo is a PhD student in the Department of Demography of The University of Texas at San Antonio. His main research topic is the link between violence and demographic processes: how the multiple forms that violence takes - symbolic, structural or direct - affect population health individually and collectively. In particular, his research seeks to explain the differences in life expectancy of subpopulations as an objective measure of structural violence, as well as to explain how the increase in homicides – and specifically firearm homicides - acts as an environmental factor that increases the risk of diseases and comorbidity at the population level.	;#Demography;#Population health;#Social determinants;#Violence;#
David López García loped438@newschool.edu The New School, Observatory on Latin America (OLA)	Mexico	David López García is a PhD candidate in the Public and Urban Policy at The New School University, in New York. Mr. López García holds an MA in Comparative Public Policy from FLACSO campus Mexico, and a BA in Management from the University of Guadalajara. He currently works as a research fellow at the Observatory on Latin America (OLA) and the Global Urban Futures Project (GUF). Prior to his studies, he served in the Mexican government for eight years in positions ranging from transparency and public participation advisor to the chief of staff at the Ministry of Planning and Evaluation of the State of Jalisco.	;#Public policy;#Public administration and management;#Transportation systems;#Urban planning;#
Larissa Loures Mendes larissalouresmendes@gmail.com Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Larissa Loures Mendes, PhD is an assistant professor of nutrition and researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Dr. Mendes’ interests and expertise include epidemiology, noncommunicable diseases, and built and social environmental determinants of health. Her projects have included drivers of overweight and obesity in adolescents and children and the effects of school-based nutritional education in Brazilian cities.	;#Epidemiology;#Food systems;#Noncommunicable disease;#Nutrition;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Gina Lovasi gsl45@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Gina S. Lovasi, PhD, MPH co-directs the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University, where she is the Dornsife Associate Professor of Urban Health. Dr. Lovasi studies the potential health implications of local contexts and policies outside of the health care sector (e.g., urban planning decisions, public transportation infrastructure, regulation and taxation of foods and food-related businesses). Much of her work is framed around understanding local environments can be changed to prevent cardiorespiratory problems and their risk factors.	;#Epidemiology;#Noncommunicable disease;#Mobility and physical activity;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Population health;#Sustainable development;#Urban planning;#
Diego Lucumi Cuesta di.lucumi@uniandes.edu.co Universidad de los Andes	Colombia	Diego Lucumi Cuesta, MD, PhD, MSc is an associate professor of public health in the Escuela de Gobierno of the Universidad de los Andes. Dr. Lucumi’s research focuses on social and physical factors that contribute to health and health disparities with a particular focus on cardiovascular diseases in Colombia. He is interested in understanding the effects of these factors on urban contexts in order to design and implement comprehensive interventions. Dr. Lucumi’s work mainly involves participatory approaches and mixed methods design.	;#Behavioral health;#Data and methods;#Noncommunicable disease;#Medicine;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#
Lily MacIver lcmaciver@berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley	United States	Lily MacIver is a current graduate student in City and Regional Planning and Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
Lina Martinez lmmartinez@icesi.edu.co Universidad Icesi	Colombia	Lina Martinez, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Observatory of Public Policy (POLIS) of Universidad Icesi in Colombia. Dr. Martinez’s main interests and specializations are in the area of urban studies and policy, social policy, and poverty reduction. She focuses her current research on policy evaluation, urban policies and the provision of public goods, life satisfaction, the informal economy, and education policies.	;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#Urban studies;#
Kevin Martínez-Folger km3785@drexel.edu Instituto de Nutrición de Centroamérica y Panamá (INCAP)	Guatemala	Kevin Martinez-Folgar, MD is a researcher and medical data analyst at the Centro Integral del INCAP para la Prevención de las Enfermedades Crónicas. Dr. Martinez-Folgar’s research interests focus on cancer epidemiology, nutrition, urban health, open science and georeferenced data for epidemiological analysis. He has worked on large nutritional and health studies in rural areas, and as medical student was a founder of the Scientific Society of Guatemala (a medical student association to promote research and international publication in peer-reviewed journals).
Mario Matamoros Rosales map.arquitecturaypaisajismo@gmail.com Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Honduras	Honduras	Mario Matamoros Rosales is an architect with a Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture and further studies on Landscape Education for Democracy. He works both in the private and public sectors, participating in academia, consultancy and urban research. He is the CEO of MAP, a firm focused on the development of urban research and design projects. He is also part of the Urban Health working group of the Interacademies Partnership (IAP).	;#Architecture;#Spatial analysis;#Urban planning;#Violence;#
Ana Lucia Mayen anamayenchacon@gmail.com International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization	France	Ana Lucia Mayen, PhD, MPH is a current post-doctoral researcher a thhe International Agency for Research on Cancer at the World Health Organization in Lyon France. Dr. Mayen’s research is mainly focused on the social determinants of diet in low- and middle-income countries. She is also participating in projects related to healthy lifestyles, hypertension, and cancer. Dr. Mayen also works as a consultant for the World Health Organization on publications related to nutrition and equity.	;#Behavioral health;#Food systems;#Noncommunicable disease;#Nutrition;#Public policy;#Social determinants;#
Monica Mazariegos monikmazariegos@gmail.com Instituto de Nutrición de Centroamérica y Panamá (INCAP)	Guatemala	Monica Mazariegos, RDN, MPH is a current doctoral student in nutritional epidemiology at the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (INSP). At INSP, Ms. Mazariegos is working with the Mexican Teachers’ Cohort to study reproductive factors and their association with chronic diseases. She is also the co-coordinator of a multicenter research project to assess social disparities in malnutrition in Latin America. Dr. Mazariegos is from Guatelama and has worked as a researcher at the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) in Guatemala. Her research primarily focuses on nutrition-related chronic diseases, epidemiology, and food policy.	;#Epidemiology;#Food systems;#Noncommunicable disease;#Nutrition;#Public policy;#Social determinants;#
Roshanak Mehdipanah rmehdipa@umich.edu School of Public Health, University of Michigan	United States	Roshanak Mehdipanah, PhD, MSc is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Dr. Mehdipanah specializes in innovative research methods including realist evaluations and concept mapping to develop conceptual frameworks linking complex interventions to health. She has published in the areas of urban renewal, housing, and policies aimed at eliminating health inequalities.	;#Data and methods;#Housing;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#Social determinants;#
Roberta Mendes Abreu roberta.m.abreu@hotmail.com Universidade Federal da Bahia	Brazil	Roberta Mendes Abreu is a current Master’s student in public health with an area concentration in epidemiology. Her research interests and current project span areas of chronic disease care among vulnerable populations, adolescent health, physical activity in urban settings, and health promotion.	;#Noncommunicable disease;#Mobility and physical activity;#Population health;#
Yvonne Michael ylm23@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Yvonne Michael, ScD, SM is the Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs an associate professor of epidemiology at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Dr. Michael’s research is focused on three primary areas: active aging, women’s health, and health disparities. The unifying theme across these research areas is the use of epidemiology as a method of inquiry to identify social characteristics of communities and individuals and describe the impact of these factors on population health.	;#Behavioral health;#Epidemiology;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
María Angélica Milla maquecamilla@yahoo.es Universidad Católica de Honduras; UNITEC	Honduras	María Angélica Milla, MD is a professor at the Universidad Católica de Honduras and UNITEC. Dr. Milla is the current president of the Honduran Society of Nutrition and Obesity and an active member of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Diabetes and IEA. Her primary areas of focus are social epidemiology, urban health, and public policies in the context of capacity building in Central America.	;#Epidemiology;#Nutrition;#Medicine;#Public policy;#Population health;#
Jaime Miranda mirandajj@gmail.com Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia	Peru	Jaime Miranda, MD, PhD, FFPH, MSc is a researcher professor and director of the Centro de Excelencia en Enfermedades Crónicas at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Dr. Miranda’s works brings together epidemiological and health policy aspects of chronic non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries with an emphasis on obesity, hypertension, and diabetes.	;#Epidemiology;#Noncommunicable disease;#Medicine;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#Social determinants;#
Michele Monroy-Valle mmmonroy@gmail.com Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala	Guatemala	Michele Monroy-Valle, MPH is the coordinator of the Research Unit in Food and Nutrition Security at the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Institute. Ms. Monroy-Valle’s primary research is related to nutrition management and its translation into preventive interventions delivered by health systems and made available to populations. She is also a member of Central American research groups that work to measure poverty from household food consumption and information regarding nutritional intake and requirements. Ms. Monroy-Valle’s work on food composition research projects contributes information on the nutritional and economic value of purchased meals in urban settings.	;#Behavioral health;#Epidemiology;#Food systems;#Health systems;#Nutrition;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Felipe Montes fel-mont@uniandes.edu.co Universidad de los Andes	Colombia	Felipe Montes, PhD has a Doctorate in Engineering that contributes to apply computational and data-driven complex systems methods for exploring the social contagious nature of chronic diseases. Dr. Montes is interested in promoting health behavior change by proposing complex systems methods to potentiate public health interventions using data analytics and mathematical simulations, specially by applying network science. His work involves interdisciplinary teams and projects across the continuum of science.	;#Data and methods;#Engineering;#Population health;#Systems science;#
Camila Montesinos Guevara camila.montesinosg@gmail.com Universidad UTE	Ecuador	Camila Montesinos Guevara, MSc is a recently-graduated Master's student from Global Health and Development at University College London who is currently working as junior researcher at UTE University in Ecuador. She currently work on projects related to public health and clinical epidemiology.	;#Epidemiology;#
José Carlos Monzon jmonzonf@umich.edu Universidad Rafael Landívar	Guatemala	José Carlos Monzon MD, MSc is the director of El Instituto de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Ciencias de la Salud of Universidad Rafael Landívar. Dr. Monzon’s main research interests focus on secondhand smoke exposure, smoke-free law compliance, and chronic disease risk factors in Guatemala. He has also worked as a consultant for the Pan American Health Organization for the Global Youth Tobacco Survey and the Global School-based Health Survey.	;#Behavioral health;#Noncommunicable disease;#Medicine;#Population health;#
Rodrigo Mora Vega rodrigo.mora@udp.cl Laboratorio Ciudad y Territorio (LCT), Universidad Diego Portales	Chile	Rodrigo Mora Vega, PhD, MSc is a researcher at the Laboratorio Ciudad y Territorio of Universidad Diego Portales. Dr. Vega’s main research interests are related to mobility and physical activity and urban planning. His recent projects include work with the city of Santiago on the characterization of cyclists and outdoor gym users, as well as a survey of the city’s infrastructure for outdoor physical activity including parks, bicycle lanes, soccer grounds, and green areas.	;#Behavioral health;#Environment and sustainability;#Mobility and physical activity;#Urban planning;#
Débora Moraes Coelho coelhaenf@gmail.com Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Débora Moraes Coelho has a Master's degree in public health with emphasis in epidemiology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2018). Ms. Moraes was previously a research assistant for the Research Group on Chronic and Occupational Diseases (GERMINAL), working primarily with the Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brazil). Ms. Moraes is also research assistant for the Urban Health Research Group of Belo Horizonte (OSUBH) and works mainly with the SALURBAL Project or "Urban Health in Latin America" specializing in the following topics: epidemiology of noncommunicable chronic diseases, social epidemiology and epidemiology of the course of life.	;#Epidemiology;#Noncommunicable disease;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Julian Andres Morales Arango julianmoralesarango@gmail.com SEGUROS SURA	Colombia	Surgeon, specialist in epidemiology with a Master's Degree in Telehealth. Ability to analyze health problems in different populations driven by information and communication technologies. Experience in medical care for high-risk populations and primary health care, with skills in design, co-creation and implementation of health strategies and solutions; innovative, focused on people and that generate value.	;#Population health;#Health systems;#
Uriel Moreira Silva urielmoreirasilva@gmail.com Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Uriel Moreira Silva, MSc is a current doctoral student in statistics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, concentrating in exact and earth sciences. Mr. Silva also has experience in economics focused on mathematical, econometrical, and statistical methods and modeling.	;#Data and methods;#Economics;#Environment and sustainability;#
Roberto Moris rmoris@uc.cl Instituto de Estudios Urbanos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Observatorio de Ciudades de la Universidad Católica (OCUC)	Chile	Roberto Moris, MSc is the co-director of the Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales and researcher at XLAB and the Centro Nacional de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada de Desastres Naturales. Mr. Moris’ work focuses on exploratory analyses and the development of new urban planning instruments that could help decision-makers improve urban investments. He is an architect by training.	;#Architecture;#Data and methods;#Urban planning;#
Pricila Mullachery phm32@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Pricila Mullachery, PhD, is a researcher with experience in domestic and international settings, currently studying the health consequences of urban scaling in the US and Latin America. Her doctoral work focused on the effect of health care policies in the context of socioeconomic inequalities and its potential implications for disparities in health care utilization across different localities and social groups.	;#Data and methods;#Health systems;#Population health;#
Jasneth Mullings jasneth.mullings@uwimona.edu.jm The University of the West Indies	Jamaica	Jasneth Mullings, PhD, MPH is an epidemiologist who has contributed to the design and implementation of community health research, educational and intervention programmes within the Caribbean over the last decade. Through these programs, critical partnerships have been forged with governmental and non-governmental organizations. More recently my research programme has focused on an examination of the effects of neighbourhood structural and social processes on the health of the Jamaican population, with a focus on mental health effects.	;#Behavioral health;#Psychology;#Social determinants;#
Sergio R. Munoz sergio.munoz.n@ufrontera.cl Universidad de la Frontera	Chile	Sergio R. Munoz, PhD is Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine at Universidad de La Frontera, Chile. Dr. Munoz holds a PhD Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.	;#Data and methods;#Population health;#
Agustín Muñoz del Guayo a.munoz79@hotmail.com Instituto de Estudios Urbanos	Costa Rica	Agustín Muñoz Del Guayo, MBA, MSc is the current director of the Instituto de Estudios Urbanos, which is dedicated to analyzing urban development and quality of life in different cities in Costa Rica. Mr. Muñoz has worked primarily in the private sector in Central America (Costa Rica, Panamá, and Nicaragua) focusing on quantitative and qualitative research with socio-economic topics.	;#Business and private sector;#Data and methods;#Social determinants;#Urban studies;#
Walter Navarro walternavarro30@hotmail.com Hospital Arzobispo Loayza, Clínica Javier Prado, Clínica El Golf	Peru	Dr. Navarro, MD has had extensive academic training in the area of medicine and general surgery, more specifically plastic and reconstructive surgeries, in Peru, Argentina and Brazil. He has lead medical teams in a variety of hospitals and clinics both nationally and internationally in addition to completing his post graduate degree in Governance and Public Policies.	;#Medicine;#Public policy;#Injury;#
Mark Nieuwenhuijsen mark.nieuwenhuijsen@isglobal.org Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)	Spain	Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen, PhD is an expert in environmental exposure assessment, epidemiology, and health risk/impactassessment with a strong focus and interest on healthy urban living. He has experience and expertise in areas of exposure measurement and modelling of indoor and outdoor air using new technology. He leads the international TAPAS study, examining the health impacts of active transport in six European cities and the EC funded PHENOTYPE study, examining the relations between green space and health, and the ISGlobal funded SUMA HIA project on health impact assessment in low and medium income countries.	;#Data and methods;#Environment and sustainability;#Epidemiology;#Public policy;#Population health;#Sustainable development;#Social determinants;#
Diana Pamela Ochoa dpamela.ochoa@gmail.com Ministerio de Salud Pública de Guatemala	Guatemala	Pamela Ochoa, MPH has a Master’s in Public Health. Her research interests involve a broad spectrum of topics on nutrition such as early risk factors for chronic diseases, micronutrient supplementation, and the double burden of malnutrition. Research is her main interest. Ms. Ochoa currently works as an epidemiologist in Guatemala’s Ministry of Health.	;#Epidemiology;#Food systems;#Government;#Noncommunicable disease;#Nutrition;#Public policy;#Population health;#
Ana Ortigoza afo25@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Ana Ortigoza, MD, MSc obtained her PhD in epidemiology at the Dornsife School of Public Health. Dr. Ortigoza’s research interests focus on childhood, youth violence and health disparities. She currently leads the MAPECA working group at SALURBAL based at Drexel University.	;#Epidemiology;#Maternal and child health;#Medicine;#Social determinants;#
Kasim Ortiz kortiz5@unm.edu University of New Mexico	United States	Kasim Ortiz, PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Mexico, is a medical sociologist whose dissertation research evaluates how differences in gayborhood residence (as a novel marker of residential segregation) shapes racial/ethnic differences in smoking behaviors among sexual minorities across the adult lifespan. His published works and area of interest focus on disparities between sexual minority populations and their heterosexual counterparts in the U.S. centered around substance use behaviors.	;#Gender;#Sociology;#Geography;#Urban studies;#
Samuel David Osorio García sdosoriog@unal.edu.co National Public Health Institute of Mexico	Mexico	Dr. Samuel García, MD & MSc in Public Health and Environmental Health, has 8 years of experience in research, teaching, and administration/policy of public health with a concentration in environmental health. He has worked in environmental urban health in Bogotá, specifically in air quality, climate change, and heavy metals. He is also Proficient in data analysis in R and will be starting a PhD in Environmental Health working with urban air pollution and health indexes utilizing his expertise.	;#Epidemiology;#Public administration and management;#Environment and sustainability;#
Paola Otavo paolak.otavoa@ecci.edu.co Universidad ECCI	Colombia	Paola Otavo is an environmental engineer with a special focus on environmental education management in Colombia. She has over 5 years of experience in of environmental, social and population project management and 12 years’ experience in state contracting (SECOP) at national, district and international cooperation levels. Ms. Otavo has focused mainly on environmental management projects with a community focus in education. She has experience in GIS as well as in participatory research for managing environmental conflicts.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Engineering;#
Ligia Paina Bergman lpaina@jhu.edu Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University	United States	Ligia Paina Bergman, PhD has an educational background in international studies and global public health systems. Dr. Paina’s research aims to improve understanding of how to intervene in complex systems in order to ensure quality and affordable health care access, particularly for poor, rural, and underserved populations. She is experienced with both qualitative and quantitative research and interested in applying systems thinking tools and approaches to public health. She has previously worked in both private sector and bilateral agency environments.	;#Business and private sector;#Data and methods;#Health systems;#International affairs;#Public administration and management;#Systems science;#
Daybel Pañellas arcangel@cubarte.cult.cu Universidad de la Habana	Cuba	Daybel Pañellas, PsyS, MSc is a professor of psychology at the Universidad de La Habana. Ms. Pañellas is also the president of the Scientific Committee of the School of Psychology of the Universidad de La Habana. Her primary research interest is the exploration of relationships between health, urban settings, and social subjectivity.	;#Communications;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Marina Pannunzio Ribeiro marinapr@estudante.ufscar.br UFSCar	Brazil	Dr. Pannunzio holds a Ph.D. in Planning and Use of Renewable Resources from the Federal University of São Carlos. Her expertise holds Remote sensing, geographic information system, Atlantic Forest biome, urbanization, forest fragmentation, forest connectivity, least-cost path, graph theory, urban forest, Nature-based solutions, urban green infrastructure, urban planning, scenario simulation, land surface temperature, and Multicriteria Analysis. She is interested in urban land surface temperature research and its impact on human health and mitigation trends.	;#Environment and sustainability;#
Paolo Parra Saiani paolo.parra.saiani@unige.it University of Genoa	Italy	Dr. Parra Saiani is currently an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Genoa in the Department of Political Sciences and the Academic Director for the PhD Program in Political Sciences. His main research interests include the relationship between science, market and politics, social research methodology, big data, and social stratification and social indicators.	;#Political sciences;#Sociology;#Social determinants;#
Evelise Pereira Barboza epbarboza@gmail.com ISGlobal, Barcelona	Spain	Ms. Barboza currently works at the Global Health Institute (ISGlobal) in Barcelona as a research technician assessing the impact of environmental exposures on health in cities. She is an environmental manager specialized in education and holds a master's degree in public health with a concentration in environmental health. Her background is in health promotion, social participation, health impact assessment, urban sustainability and environmental planning.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Global health;#Sustainable development;#
Carolina Perez- Ferrer carolina.perez@insp.mx Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP)	Mexico	Carolina Perez- Ferrer, PhD works as a researcher on the SALURBAL project and is based at the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Dr. Perez-Ferrer’s main research interests include social determinants of health, the epidemiology of obesity, and the nutrition transition in middle-income countries.	;#Epidemiology;#Nutrition;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Elsa Antonia Pérez Paredes espaciospublicos20@gmail.com, elsa.perez.paredes@gmail.com Universidad Abierta y a Distancia de México, Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Ciudad de México "Rosario Castellanos"	Mexico	Elsa Paredes, MsC, PhD, is a professor at the Universidad Abierta y a Distancia de México and the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Ciudad de México, “Rosario Castellanos”. Dr. Castellanos and an independent consultant on projects focusing on urban-environmental policies in cities from a socio-environmental, human rights, gender and environmental justice angle. Her current lines of research include urban environmental inequality, urban public space-climate change-health and environmental urban governance.
Marcia Pescador Jimenez mpjimenez@hsph.harvard.edu Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	United States	Marcia Pescador Jimenez, PhD, MSc, MA a doctoral degree in Epidemiology from the Brown University School of Public Health, a Master of Statistics from the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium, and a Master of Sociology from Northeastern University, where she was research associate and data manager for the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities. Her research focuses on addressing the influence of geographic contextual factors throughout the life-course, such as access to green space and neighborhood socio-economic status, on cardiovascular health.	;#Data and methods;#Epidemiology;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Fátima Pina fatima.pina@icict.fiocruz.br Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) RJ	Brazil	Fátima Pina, PhD, MSc is a researcher at the Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde of the Fundação Oswaldo. Dr. Pina is also a current member of the European Innovation Network for Active and Healthy Ageing.	;#Computational sciences;#Engineering;#Geographic information systems;#Spatial analysis;#
Bibiana del Carmen Pineda Restrepo bcpinedar@unal.edu.co Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia	Dr. Restrepo, PhD, is a health professional, with specializations in public health and public policy, M.A. in development studies and a PhD in human and social sciences. She has more than ten years of experience in health policy management processes. She possesses many technical skills and abilities including techniques for quantitative and qualitative analysis and database management as well as interdisciplinary social research.	;#Public policy;#Sociology;#Epidemiology;#
Johny Ponce johnycponcec@gmail.com CREEH Peru	Peru	Dr. Ponce holds a PhD from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mr. Ponce is a Professor at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, and have more than a decade of experience working on environmental health issues in Peru. Currently, he is the CEO of Center for Research in Environmental Healh, CREEH, and is responsible for implementing CREEH’s environmental health research and community outreach and intervention programs in Peru.	;#Environment and sustainability;#
Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard Anne-Helene.PRIEUR-RICHARD@anr.fr Agence Nationale de la Recherche	France	Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard, PhD, MSc is a researcher at l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche and previously Global Hub Director for Future Earth Montreal where she focused on synthesis and foresight, general coordination, and science-policy interfaces, as well as the overall activities of Future Earth as part of the Secretariat Executive Team. She has worked at the University of Paris and also has teaching experience at the Universities of Paris and Montpellier.	;#Biological sciences;#Climate change;#Environment and sustainability;#Public policy;#Sustainable development;#
Fernando Augusto Proietti fernandoaproietti@gmail.com Instituto de Medicina Social, Centro Rio Saúde Global; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Fernando Augusto Proietti, MD, PhD, MSc is a researcher at the Brazilian National Council of Research (CNPq) and professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and the Instituto Renê Rachou of the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz- Belo Horizonte. He has experience in the area of collective health, working primarily in epidemiology, urban health, human retrovirology (HTLV-1 and 2), emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, and bloodborne diseases.	;#Epidemiology;#Infectious diseases;#Medicine;#Population health;#
José Puppim de Oliveira jose.puppim@fgv.br International Institute for Global Health, United Nations University	United Nations System	José Puppim de Oliveira, PhD, MSc is a Research Professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EAESP and FGV/EBAPE). Previously, he was a visiting research fellow at the United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health and visiting scholar at MIT-UTM (Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia). Dr. Puppim de Oliveira’s research is multi- and interdisciplinary involving applied social sciences and their links with health sciences and engineering. He is particularly interested in patterns of governance, institution building and policy implementation at different levels, examining how global institutions are linked to local governance.	;#Engineering;#Environment and sustainability;#International affairs;#Policy and impact evaluation;#
Alex Quistberg daq26@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Alex Quistberg, PhD, MPH is an assistant research professor at the Dornsife School of Public Health. Dr. Quistberg is an injury epidemiologist whose research has focused primarily on road safety, the built environment, active transportation and global health. He has experience working with trauma care, health literacy, health disparities, teen driver safety, child passenger safety, pediatric window falls, and boating safety. Dr. Quistberg currently serves on the editorial board of the BMJ journal Injury Prevention as the Statistical Editor.	;#Behavioral health;#Data and methods;#Epidemiology;#Injury;#Mobility and physical activity;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Transportation systems;#
Eugen Resendiz Bontrud eugenresendiz@gmail.com Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis	Mexico	Eugen Resendiz is a masters student of Public Policy at Universidad Iberoamericana de la Ciudad de México (UIA) and Junior Researcher at the Department of Physical Activity and Healthy Lifestyles at the Center of Research on Nutrition and Health (CINyS) of the National Institute of Public Health in México (INSP). Her main area of research is mixed methods urban health and built environment assessments related to health outcomes. Some of her additional interests include physical activity, chronic disease prevention, urban policy and health disparities.	;#Noncommunicable disease;#Mobility and physical activity;#Public policy;#Urban planning;#
Aina Roca Barceló a.roca-barcelo@imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London	United Kingdom	Aina Roca Barcelo, MsC is the co-chair of the MRC Early Careers Researchers Society at King's College at the Imperial College London. She is an early-career researcher that has worked both in the United Kingdom and Spain on various epidemiological studies. As of 2019, she started a 3-year project aimed to assess the effects of temperature and air pollution changes on health in urban environments. Her particular focus interests include climate change and the climate resilience capacity of communities in relation to health and social inequalities.	;#Epidemiology;#Climate change;#Noncommunicable disease;#Environment and sustainability;#Biological sciences;#Social determinants;#Population health;#
Maria Esperanza Rock Núñez esperanzarock@u.uchile.cl Independent academic research	Chile	Maria Esperanza Rock Núñez, PhD is a theoretician and art historian. Dr. Rock Núñez holds a PhD in ethnohistory and a certification in strategic communication, having also specialized in qualitative research methods using diverse participation tactics.	;#Anthropology;#Communications;#
Alejandro Rodriguez alerodriguez.alv@gmail.com London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Fundación Ecuatoriana para la Investigación en Salud (FEPIS)	Ecuador	Alejandro Rodriguez, PhD is a social epidemiologist. Dr. Rodriguez is from Ecuador and his research interests are centered on the effects of urbanization and migration processes on population health in developing countries. His work aims to identify and evaluate which characteristics of the urban processes contribute to the occurrence of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Over the past 12 years, Dr. Rodriguez been involved in several research programs supported by Wellcome Trust Centres of Excellence in Latin America Award.	;#Epidemiology;#Infectious diseases;#Noncommunicable disease;#Population health;#Urban studies;#
Daniel Rodriguez danrod@berkeley.edu Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley	United States	Daniel Rodriguez, PhD is the Chancellor's Professor of City and Regional Planning at University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Rodriguez’s research focuses on the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and transportation, and its effects on the environment and health. He has a distinguished publication record, include co-authoring the book Urban Land Use Planning (University of Illinois Press).	;#Environment and sustainability;#Mobility and physical activity;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#Sustainable development;#Systems science;#Transportation systems;#Urban planning;#
Santiago Rodríguez López santiago.rodriguez@conicet.gov.ar Centro de Investigaciones y Estudio sobre Cultura y Sociedad, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas	Argentina	Santiago Rodríguez, BSc, MSc, Ph.D., is a researcher at the Research and Study Center on Culture and Society (CIECS, CONICET y UNC). Dr. Rodríguez’ main research interest is the study of social inequities in health, particularly the socioeconomic stratification of health among adults of Argentina. He is also involved in projects related to childhood/adolescent growth and nutrition under different socioeconomic environments in the city of Córdoba. Dr. Rodríguez has also conducted research on the biosocial determinants of healthy aging.	;#Anthropology;#Demography;#Nutrition;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Victoria Rodríguez Villarreal vr396@drexel.edu	Mexico	Victoria Villarreal is an undergraduate student at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Passionate and dedicated student with excellent analytical skills and a demonstrated commitment to community service, health and the environment.	;#Climate change;#Population health;#
David Rojas-Rueda David.Rojas@colostate.edu Instituto de Salud Global (ISGlobal)	Spain	David Rojas-Rueda, MD, MPH, PhD is a researcher specializing in Health Impact Assessment, Risk Assessment and Burden of Disease approaches. . He has worked on issues related with air pollution, physical activity, traffic accidents, diet, cardiovascular risk, lead poisoning, multiple occupational exposures, diabetes and experimental surgery. He is currently working at Colorado State University in numerous international projects on Environmental Health.	;#Behavioral health;#Environment and sustainability;#Epidemiology;#Injury;#Medicine;#Mobility and physical activity;#Policy and impact evaluation;#
Paty Romero-Lankao Patricia.RomeroLankao@nrel.gov National Renewable Energy Laboratory	United States	Paty Romero-Lankao is a senior scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Romero- Lankao’s research examines the dynamics of urbanization and cities that shape urban emissions, vulnerabilities, and risk. She also examines why and how urban actors attempt to meet the challenges of reducing emissions and improving their response capacity to environmental impacts. In addition to her research work, Dr. Romero-Lankao has participated in urban sustainability endeavors promoted by IPCC, C40 and UN-HABITAT. She also was a part of ADAPTE which brought together scholars from different countries and disciplinary backgrounds to investigate the independent and combined effects of exposure to weather-related stresses, air pollution, and human vulnerability on urban health in Buenos Aires, Bogota, Mexico City, and Santiago.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Public policy;#Public administration and management;#Regional studies;#Sustainable development;#Urban studies;#
Karl Samuelsson karl.samuelsson@hig.se University of Gävle	Sweden	Karl Samuelsson, MSc is a PhD student in GIS integrating urban geography, environmental psychology and resilience science, with the aim to contribute to a systems understanding of urban environments’ impact on urban dwellers’ wellbeing. Samuelsson is lead author of two recent studies on Stockholm: Impact of environment on people’s everyday experiences in Stockholm & Urban resilience at eye level: Spatial analysis of empirically defined experiential landscapes.	;#Climate change;#Environment and sustainability;#Geographic information systems;#Urban planning;#
Gervásio F. Santos gervasios@ufba.br Universidade Federal da Bahia	Brazil	Gervásio F. Santos, PhD is currently a professor and researcher in the Department of Economics at the Federal University of Bahia. Dr. Santos conducts research in the areas of energy economics, regional and urban economics, and micro-development, with an emphasis on the importance of space in the analysis of politics and economic and social planning. He has served as Economic Advisor to the Secretariat of Planning of the State of Bahia (SEPLAN) and was a consultant of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).	;#Economics;#Public administration and management;#Spatial analysis;#Urban planning;#
Carlos Santos-Burgoa csantosburgoaz@gmail.com Pan American Health Organization; George Washington University (Washington, DC)	Mexico	Carlos Santos-Burgoa, MD, PhD, MPH is a professor of Global Health Policy at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. Dr. Santos-Burgoa has occupied several government positions in Mexico and worldwide. In Mexico, he helped to develop the Federal Commission for Sanitary Risk Protection, the Health Services Organizational Reform, the Health Promotion Operative Model and the Healthy Nutrition National Strategy. At PAHO/WHO, Dr. Santos-Burgoa has been responsible for projects related to health and human security, urban health and, most recently, work on risk factors for NCDs.	;#Behavioral health;#Government;#Health systems;#Noncommunicable disease;#Medicine;#Population health;#
Olga Lucía Sarmiento Dueñas osarmien@uniandes.edu.co Universidad de los Andes	Colombia	Olga Lucia Sarmiento, MD, PhD, MPH is an associate professor of public health at the Facultad de Medicina of the Universidad de los Andes and the director of EpiAndes. Dr. Sarmiento’s current research interests include physical activity, nutrition and the built environment among populations in Latin America. She is currently working with the International Physical Activity and Environment Network for the evaluation of the Recreovía program that promotes physical activity in community settings.	;#Behavioral health;#Environment and sustainability;#Epidemiology;#Nutrition;#Medicine;#Mobility and physical activity;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Transportation systems;#
Maria Schewenius maria.schewenius@su.se Stockholm Resilience Centre	Sweden	Maria Schewenius, MSc is Research Coordinator of the Urban research theme at SRC, working on projects like the Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (URBES), Accelerating and Rescaling Transitions to Sustainability (ARTS), and the Green Town Stockholm initiative. She currently works in Fortaleza, Brazil, through the C/O City Project, where a Virtual Reality experience and short documentary were made in 2016 to present the reality of life in a favela. Her research interests include development trends in urban areas in Latin America and Asia, sustainable management of the associated social-ecological systems, and the connections between urban areas.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Regional studies;#Sustainable development;#Social determinants;#Urban studies;#
Kami Schmeer schmeer.1@osu.edu The Ohio State University	United States	Kammi Schmeer, PhD, is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Schmeer's research centers around social and economic insecurity, stress, and health among women and children in low-income urban areas. She currently leads an NIH-funded study of mothers and their adolescent children in León, Nicaragua. With an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Centro de Investigación en Demografía y Salud, Dr. Schmeer is using survey and biomarker data collection to understand how food insecurity, exposure to violence, and stress shape the health risks of the women and their adolescent children.	;#Sociology;#Maternal and child health;#Food systems;#Violence;#Nutrition;#Gender;#
Anne Sebert Kuhlmann anne.sebertkuhlmann@slu.edu St. Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice	United States	Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, PhD, MPH is an assistant professor in public health at Saint Louis University and has several years of experience working in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Sebert Kuhlmann is currently collaborating with Unversidad San Francisco in Ecuador and the Universidad Nacional Autónomo in Honduras. Most of her work focuses on maternal and reproductive health.	;#Behavioral health;#Maternal and child health;#Population health;#Sexual and reproductive health;#
Aaron Shwartz aaron.j.schwartz@uvm.edu Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont	United States	Aaron Schwartz is currently a PhD student in Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. His research interests include global environmental change, complex systems, human health, and ecological environments. For his thesis, Mr. Schwartz is applying methods from computational social science to understand the link between urban greenspace and health outcomes. He has previously studied in Chile, conducting research on cellular phone use and agricultural market price discovery.	;#Climate change;#Environment and sustainability;#Population health;#Spatial analysis;#
María Jesús Silva Rozas maria.silva@techo.org TECHO	Chile	María Jesús Silva Rozas is a sociologist with experience in qualitative and quantitative studies in non-governmental organization. Ms. Silva has worked with the coordination of evaluation and strategic planning efforts for non-governmental organizations, specializing in the design, management and evaluation of projects of public interest.	;#Data and methods;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Sociology;#
Mariella Siña Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia	Peru	Mariella Siña, MSc is a current PhD student in Public Health at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Ms. Siña’s research and thesis focuses on sustainable consumption patterns at the household level in cities. She also is experienced with climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies at the municipality level in Lima.	;#Climate change;#Environment and sustainability;#Population health;#Sustainable development;#
Oswaldo Sinoe Medina Gómez epired@gmail.com Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social	Mexico	Oswaldo Sinoe Medina Gómez, MD, PhD, MsC is researcher for the Mexican Social Security Institute focusing on inequalities and social determinants of health. He has published several articles and chapters in his area of work particularly on measuring inequalities, evaluating health policies, social epidemiology and social determinants of health.	;#Social determinants;#Epidemiology;#Population health;#Global health;#Nutrition;#Medicine;#
Rachel Sippy rsippy@ufl.edu University of Florida	United States	Dr. Rachel Sippy, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher and program manager involved in studies in Ecuador, including research on respiratory illnesses in children, climate, and air pollution. Dr. Sippy develops and executes research projects related to vector-borne illness and environmental exposures in collaboration with local communities and public health institutions in southern coastal Ecuador. She holds a PhD in epidemiology and an MPH.	;#Infectious diseases;#Environment and sustainability;#
José Siri josegsiri@gmail.com Wellcome Trust	United Kingdom	José Siri, PhD, MPH is a research fellow in urban health at the United Nations University- International Institute for Global Health. Dr. Siri’s work is focused on systems approaches to research and policy, infectious disease transmission, and global urban health. He has conducted research for the Health and Global Change, World Population, and Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases and Atmospheric Pollution programs.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Epidemiology;#Global health;#Infectious diseases;#Public policy;#Population health;#Systems science;#
Claire Slesinski ss4523@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Claire Slesinski, MSPH, Project Manager, manages a 5-year research project focused on urban health in Latin America, funded by the Wellcome Trust. She received her MSPH in Health Communication from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She previously worked as a Program Officer supporting and coordinating global social and behavior change communication programs in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs. She speaks fluent Spanish and elementary Portuguese.	;#Communications;#Global health;#
Anne Dorothée Slovic adslovic@usp.br School of Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil	Brazil	Anne Dorothée Slovic, PhD is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health, USP and Assistant Researcher at the SALURBAL project, Medical School, USP. Dr. Slovic's main research interests include the interactions between the environment and health, public policy, equity issues, mobility and air pollution challenges within the urban context. Her work focuses on cross studies and global health.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Global health;#Mobility and physical activity;#Urban studies;#
Orielle Solar orielle.solar@flacsochile.org Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Universidad de Chile	Chile	Orielle Solar, MD, MPH is a researcher and coordinator of the program Trabajo, Empleo, Equidad y Salud of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Dr. Solar is also a professor at the Escuela de Salud Pública of the Universidad de Chile and collaborating member of GREDS-EMCONET, a research group focused on the study of inequities in health and employment conditions at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain. She is a physician by training.	;#Medicine;#Public policy;#Social determinants;#
Mariana Souza Lopes marianalopes.ufmg@gmail.com Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Maria Souza Lopes, MSc is a current PhD student in Public Health at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Ms. Lopes is a member of the research team of the Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health and is also a part of the Interventions in Nutrition Research Group of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Her interests include social epidemiology, with a focus on health inequities in cities, urban health, and food environments.	;#Epidemiology;#Food systems;#Nutrition;#Population health;#Social determinants;#
Ivana Stankov is379@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	Australia	Ivana Stankov, PhD focuses her research on understanding the social and environmental determinants of health and disease using soft and hard systems methods. Dr. Stankov’s current research employs participatory methods to identify and understand built environments implicated in the development of cardiometabolic risk. She is actively involved in research that employs simulation-based methods, including spatial agent-based modelling, to understand place-health relations and explore the effectiveness of policy-relevant interventions on health-related behavior and chronic disease outcomes.	;#Data and methods;#Noncommunicable disease;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Social determinants;#Systems science;#
José Tapia Granados jat368@drexel.edu Department of Politics, Drexel University	United States	Jose Tapia, MD, PhD is an associate professor of politics at Drexel University. Dr. Tapia’s research focuses on the impact of economic conditions and business cycles on health and health inequalities globally.	;#Business and private sector;#Economics;#Political sciences;#Public policy;#Population health;#
Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa caiaffa.waleska@gmail.com Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	Waleska Caiaffa, MD, PhD, MPH is a professor of epidemiology and public health at the Faculdade de Medicina of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Dr. Caiaffa directs the Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte and is a current board member of the United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health.	;#Epidemiology;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#
Camila Teixiera Vaz milatvaz@yahoo.com.br Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora	Brazil	Camilia Teixeira Vez, MSc is an assistant professor of physiotherapy and current doctoral student in public health. For her thesis, Ms. Vez is conducting analyses using data from the Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL) project and is interested in multicentric studies.	;#Data and methods;#Health systems;#Population health;#
Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia leandromtg@gmail.com Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) RJ	Brazil	Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia, PhD, MS is a current postdoctoral researcher at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, working in the Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública and the Programa de Computação Científica. Dr. Garcia’s main research interests are related to social, environmental, and individual determinants of population patterns and inequalities in leisure-time physical activity and active modes of transportation, using conceptual frameworks and methods of epidemiology and systems science.	;#Computational sciences;#Demography;#Epidemiology;#Mobility and physical activity;#Social determinants;#Systems science;#Transportation systems;#
Natalia Tumas nataliatumas@gmail.com Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas	Argentina	Natalia Tumas, Phd, MSc is a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones and a tenured profesor of biostatistics at the Universidad Católica de Córdoba and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Dr. Tumas’s main research interest is the study of social and environmental inequities in health. She is involved in projects related to urban food markets and child health promotion in marginalized neighborhoods in the city of Córdoba.	;#Behavioral health;#Demography;#Food systems;#Nutrition;#Maternal and child health;#Social determinants;#
Flavia Ulian flavia.ulian@fatec.sp.gov.br Fatec Tatuapé - Faculdade de Tecnologia Victor Civita	Brazil	Dr. Flavia Ulian, PhD in Human Geography from the University of São Paulo, is a professor of Higher Education and coordinator of the Land Transport Technology course at FATEC TATUAPÉ (Faculty of Technology of Tatuapé Victor Civita, São Paulo, Brazil). She has experience conducting research in accessibility, environmental impacts of transportation and urban mobility.	;#Geography;#Global health;#Environment and sustainability;#Transportation systems;#
María Ursula La Rosa Sánchez Paredes ursula_larosa@hotmail.com Municipalidad de Lima	Peru	María Ursula La Rosa Sánchez Paredes is a biologist and coordinator of the Healthy Schools Program (Programa Escuelas Saludables) of the Health Sub-Secretariat. Ms. La Rosa Sánchez Paredes has expertise in microbiology and parasitology, with 14 years of experience in the sanitary surveillance of food and services. She also conducts trainings on themes of food safety, healthy food, and parasitology.	;#Biological sciences;#Food systems;#Public policy;#Population health;#
Clara Vadillo Quesada clara.vadillo@itdp.org Instituto de Políticas para el Transporte y el Desarrollo (ITDP Mexico)	Mexico	Clara Vadillo Quesada holds a BA and a MA in Urban Governance from Sciences Po Paris, France, and has experience in analyzing urban public policies and promoting international and Franco-Mexican cooperation. Ms. Vadillo Quesada is the leader of public policy projects in the Mexican office of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), where she promotes integrated road safety actions and leads research related to active mobility and health. She advocates for multi-actor types of collaboration in response to urban challenges and the inclusion of a gender perspective in sustainable mobility policies.	;#Government;#Mobility and physical activity;#Public administration and management;#Transportation systems;#
Daniel Velázquez Cortés dvc.velazquez@gmail.com Mexican Academy of Health	Mexico	Daniel Velázquez Cortés, MD, has a professional background as a medical doctor with experience in urban and rural clinical outposts and skills in research protocols, healthcare advocacy, program management, medical journal edition and quantitative data analysis. He holds a Master of Science in Global Health, from the Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, where he completed his thesis, "Open streets in Latin-America: Health impacts related to physical activity."	;#Global health;#Medicine;#Mobility and physical activity;#
Magdalena Vicuña mvicunad@gmail.com Instituto de Estudios Urbanos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile	Magdalena Vicuña, PhD, MSc is an assistant professor at the Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Dr. Vicuña’s main research focus is urban planning. She is currently working on a project that aims to analyze the impact of regional and local policies on quality of life in metropolitan cities in Chile.	;#Architecture;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#Regional studies;#Urban planning;#Urban studies;#
Quelia Vieira Carvalho carvalho.qv@gmail.com Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Vitória Conquista	Brazil	Quelia Vieira Carvalho is a current Bachelor’s student in Nutrition at the Federal University of Bahia and an environmental technician trained by the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Bahia.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Food systems;#Nutrition;#
Juan Manuel Villa Martinez juanm.villamtz@gmail.com University of Freiburg	Germany	Dr. Villa Martinez, MA Science in Global Urban Health, is working as an Assistant Researcher at the University of Freiburg Clinic after having completed his master’s studies at the same university. He completed his medical studies at in Monterrey in northern Mexico and worked as a hospitalist clinician in Cancun. Dr. Villa Martinez also has experience working as the head design, implementation, and monitoring of various public health programs at the State Ministry of Health and hopes to begin his PhD to further his credentials in the area of global health.	;#Global health;#
José Julio Villalba Vasquez josejuliovillalba@gmail.com Secretary of Health of the Municipality of Quito, Ecuador	Ecuador	José Julio Villalba Vasquez, MPH, is a nutritionist by training from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador and currently technical manager of the Malnutrition Prevention Project of the Municipality of Quito. He developed his skills as a technical coordinator of nutrition and health education while working on the municipal project "Salud al Paso”. He is also expanding his skills through the development of a Diploma in Management of Public Policies at FLACSO Argentina.	;#Nutrition;#Epidemiology;#Public administration and management;#
Luz Yazmin Viramontes Fabela yazmin@camina.mx CAMINA, Centro de Estudios y Movilidad Peatonal	Mexico	Luz Yazmin Viramontes Fabela holds a Bachelor's degree in architecture from Tecnológico de Monterrey, along with graduate diplomas in "social urbanism", "urban environmental and social processes", and "universal accessibility and design for all: strategies for intervention in achitecture and urban planning." Ms. Viramontes Fabela has wide and diverse experiences with social projects and citizen participation focused on youth and has worked with the Transportation and Development Policies Institute (ITDP), advising local governments on the implementation of active mobility projects.	;#Architecture;#Mobility and physical activity;#Policy and impact evaluation;#Public policy;#Transportation systems;#
Alejandra Vives alejandra.vives@uc.cl Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile	Alejandra Vives, MD, PhD, MPH is an assistant professor in public health at the Universidad Católica de Chile. Dr. Vives’ research interests focus on epidemiological studies exploring the relationship between precarious and informal employment and health. She is also a research member of the Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable, where she is currently investigating the spatial variability of social vulnerabilities, as well as the health impacts of air pollution in the greater Santiago.	;#Environment and sustainability;#Epidemiology;#Medicine;#Social determinants;#Spatial analysis;#Urban studies;#
Xize Wang wangxize316@gmail.com School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore	United States	Xize Wang, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Department of Real Estate at the National University of Sinagpore. Dr. Wang served as a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the intersection among transportation, demography and health.	;#Demography;#Economics;#Population health;#Transportation systems;#Urban planning;#
Karolina Wolnicki kiw33@drexel.edu Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University	United States	Karolina Wolnicki, BA is the Project Assistant for the SALURBAL team. She has a bachelor's degree in Spanish and Cultural Studies. Ms. Wolnicki previously worked as an international programs director and internship placement specialist for a study abroad company in locations such as New Zealand, Germany, and Ireland. She also has experience as a Spanish and Portuguese translator for various public health initiatives at Villanova University in both Nicaragua & Peru where her interest in public health initially began.	;#Communications;#Global health;#