A Drexel team secured a $12 million, five-year grant from the Wellcome Trust’s Our Planet, Our Health initiative to study how the governance, design, organization and environment of Latin American cities affect population health and inequities within cities. The project also has a distinct focus on understanding the links between the health and environmental sustainability of cities.
“This is critical because health and environmental sustainability are closely entwined.” ANA DIEZ ROUX, dean of Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health
Ana Diez Roux, dean of Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health and director of the Urban Health Collaborative, will lead a team that spans 11 Latin American and three U.S. institutions. The researchers will study hundreds of Latin American and Caribbean cities, looking for ways cities can improve the health of their residents. The Our Planet, Our Health initiative was designed to fund research aimed at understanding the changing Earth and how it affects our health, and fi nding solutions benefi cial to both.