JANUARY 2021:
Life expectancy and mortality profiles are highly heterogeneous in 363 cities of Latin America: the SALURBAL project
Los perfiles heterogéneos de esperanza de vida y mortalidad en 363 ciudades de América Latina: el proyecto SALURBAL
On January 25, 2021, the SALURBAL Project published new findings on life expectancy and mortality profiles in 363 cities of 9 countries in Latin America.
The research paper can be downloaded and accessed here.
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Usama Bilal, PhD, MPH, MD
Co-investigator of the SALURBAL project
Usama Bilal is currently an Assistant Professor in the Urban Health Collaborative and the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health. His primary research interest is the macrosocial determinants of health, with a specific interest in nutrition-related conditions and their upstream causes. Most of his work focuses on the role that city- and neighborhood-level dynamics have in generating disease, and the use of complexity methodologies to study the emergent properties of urban environments.