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For the latest updates and current SALURBAL activities, including SALURBAL-Climate, please visit the SALURBAL Portal.


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The SALURBAL Network (formerly the Urban Health Network for Latin America and the Caribbean, LAC-Urban Health) brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to promote urban health and health equity across Latin America.

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The SALURBAL Network distributes research findings and other relevant information about the connections between urban places and health, and shares regular opportunities for learning, capacity building, and exchange.

The SALURBAL Network

For the latest updates and current SALURBAL activities, including SALURBAL-Climate, please visit the SALURBAL Portal.

This page serves as an archive for SALURBAL and is no longer being updated regularly.

Launched in 2017, the Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL) or Urban Health in Latin America Project brought together faculty, students, and staff at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health and from partner institutions across the Americas.

SALURBAL team members from multiple disciplines study the ways urban environments and urban policies impact the health of city residents throughout Latin America. Project findings inform policies and interventions to create healthier, more equitable, and more sustainable cities worldwide.

SALURBAL's current project is SALURBAL-Climate, a five-year project that is addressing a critical need for evidence linking climate change to health impacts across Latin America. SALURBAL-Climate is funded by the Wellcome Trust’s Climate Research Partnerships initiative.

To learn more about SALURBAL’s first phase, from 2017-2023, see below. The information below serves as an archive.

For the latest updates and current SALURBAL activities, including SALURBAL-Climate, please visit:

The SALURBAL Portal

SALURBAL team members lead and collaborate on numerous ancillary studies and other projects supported by various funding mechanisms. These initiatives engage a wide network of individual and institutional partners and leverage the unique and unprecedented data resource compiled and harmonized by SALURBAL. These activities are further supported by SALURBAL’s capacity strengthening efforts and by SALURBAL’s extensive network and dissemination platforms.


To learn more about SALURBAL’s ancillary studies and other collaborations, please visit the SALURBAL Portal: www.salurbal.org