The Drexel Urban Health Collaborative

A new project between the local Philadelphia community organization Puentes de Salud and The Urban Health Collaborative has been announced. This project will explore Philadelphia’s food security landscape and help create a better picture of what access to healthy food looks like across the city.

Philadelphians would agree: it’s been a brutally hot summer. For many of workers, though, extreme heat does not mean the work stops.

On June 25th, 2026, UHC Co-Directors Ana Diez Roux and Usama Bilal were in Washington for a Workshop on AI/ML Tools, Cross-Sector Data, and Community Expertise organized by the Population Health Improvement Roundtable of NASEM.