Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH
Usama Bilal is an associate professor in the department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Co-Director of the Urban Health Collaborative and the Research Center on Extreme Weather and Urban Health (CCUH) at Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health.
His primary research interest is the macrosocial determinants of health, with an interest in describing health inequities in urban environments, especially around the unequal effects of climate change and extreme weather. His recent work focuses on Philadelphia and in the 371 cities of the SALURBAL-Climate project.
Bilal received the prestigious NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5) in 2018 for his The Health Consequences of Urban Scaling project, and the 2024 Drexel Provost Early Career Outstanding Productivity Award.
He earned a PhD in Cardiovascular Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an MPH from the Universidad de Alcala in Spain, and MD from the Universidad de Oviedo in Spain.