Gina S. Lovasi, PhD, MPH is Co-Director of the Urban Health Collaborative and Dornsife Associate Professor of Urban Health at Drexel University. Dr. Lovasi received her public health training at the University of Washington. Her research projects reflect a tension between loving to work with large datasets to chip away at big questions, and a fascination with the insights gained through field data collection to tackle local information needs.

Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, is Dean and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Originally trained as a pediatrician in her native Buenos Aires, she completed public health training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her work on neighborhood health effects has been highly influential in the policy debate on population health and its determinants.

Jennifer Kolker, MPH is Associate Dean for Public Health Practice and Clinical Professor of Health Management and Policy in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University.

Michael Bader, PhD
Associate Professor, Sociology
and Public Policy & Administration
American University
Washington, DC

Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH
Assistant Research Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH
François- Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights
Director, François- Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Urban Health Collaborative
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Jo Ivey Boufford, MD
Clinical Professor of Global Health
College of Global Public Health
New York University
New York, NY

Bridgette M. Brawner, PhD, MDiv, APRN
Senior Fellow at the Center for Public Health Initiatives
Assistant Professor of Nursing, Family and Community Health
School of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Observatory for Urban Health- Belo Horizonte
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Amy Carroll- Scott, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Community Health and Prevention
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Jason Corburn, PhD
Director, Institute of Urban and Regional Development
Professor, City & Regional Planning and School of Public Health
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, PhD, MPH
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences
Observatory for Urban Health- Belo Horizonte
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Jannette Diaz
Vice President, Health Promotion & Wellness
Congreso de Latinos Unidos
Philadelphia, PA

Julia Díez, BSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Universidad de Alcalá
Madrid, Spain

Bettye Ferguson
President
Belmont Alliance Civic Association, Community Development Corporation
Philadelphia, PA

Manuel Franco, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health
Universidad de Alcalá
Madrid, Spain

Marla Gold, MD
Professor and Dean Emerita
Health Management and Policy
Dornsife School of Public HealthÂ
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Silvia A. González, MPH, PhD(c)
Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada

Marc N. Gourevitch, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Public Health
Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor Population Health, Department of Population Health
Professor, Department of Medicine
Professor, Department of Psychology
Grossman School of Medicine
New York University
New York, NY

Marcus Grant, BSc (Hons.), MA
Editor- in- Chief, Cities & Health
Advisor to WHO Healthy Cities Programme
Bristol, UK

Joseph S. Griffin, DrPH, MPH
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA

Pedro Gullón, MD, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Universidad de Alcalá
Madrid, Spain

Rosie Mae Henson, MPH
UHC Doctoral Research Fellow
Urban Health Collaborative
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Diana Rocio Higuera- Mendieta, MD, ScM
Scientific Researcher
Universidad de los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia

Jana A. Hirsch, MES, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Urban Health Collaborative
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Malo A. Hutson, PhD
Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Director of the Urban Planning PhD Program
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Columbia University
New York, NY

Katherine Indvik, Msc
Policy Engagement Specialist, SALURBAL Project
Urban Health Collaborative
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Rennie Joshi, MPH
UHC Doctoral Research Fellow
Urban Health Collaborative
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Abby C. King, PhD
Professor
Epidemiology & Population Health and Medicine
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Neil Kleiman
Clinical Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
New York University
New York, NY

Stephen E. Lankenau, PhD
Community Health and Prevention
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Adriana C. Lein, MSc
Master of Science in Global Health
Policy & Dissemination Coordinator
Drexel Urban Health Collaborative
Dornsife School of Public Health Drexel
Philadelphia, PA

Shoshanna Levine, DrPH
Program Director, City Health Dashboard
Grossman School of Medicine
New York University
New York, NY

Steve Melly, MS, MA
Geographic Information System Specialist
Urban Health Collaborative
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Stephen J. Mooney, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

Becky Ofrane, MPH
Manager of Partnerships, City Health Dashboard
Grossman School of Medicine
New York University
New York, NY

Jonathan Purtle, DrPH, MPH, MSc
Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Center for Population Health and Community Impact
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Harrison Quick, PhD
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia

Guy Robinson, PhD
Lecturer in Biology
Department of Natural Science
Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Fordham University
New York, NY

Andrew Rundle, MPH, DrPH
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Co- Director, Obesity Prevention Initiative
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, NY

Olga L. Sarmiento, MD, PhD, MPH
Director, EpiAndes
Associate Professor, Public Health
Universidad de los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia

Faizan Shaikh, MPH, BDS
Research Assistant
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

José G. Siri, PhD, MPH
Research Fellow, Urban Health
International Institute for Global Health
United Nations University
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Claire Slesinski, MSPH
Senior Program Manager for Global Urban Health
Urban Health Collaborative
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Benjamin Spoer, PhD, MPH
Manager of Metrics and Analytics, City Health Dashboard
Grossman School of Medicine
New York University
New York, NY

Ivana Stankov, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Urban Health Collaborate
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Carolyn B. Swope, MPH, Well AP
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, NY

Lorna Thorpe, PhD, MPH
Professor
Director of the Division of Epidemiology
Department of Population Health
New York University
New York, NY

Vaishnavi Vaidya, MPH
Project Manager
Urban Health Collaborative
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Kate Weinberger, PhD
Assistant Professor, Occupational and Environmental Health
School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada

"A treasure-trove of lessons in urban public health research from the most urbanized regions of the world, Urban Public Health offers a comprehensive guide to urban health research from theoretical frameworks to practical considerations. By adopting a population health approach, the authors foreground the diverse systems for health that can support or undermine health in cities. The detailed exposÃé of updates to research methods for urban health are overdue additions to the scientific landscape, and a must for the conduct of policy-informed and contextually relevant research for healthy sustainable cities globally." -- Tolullah Oni, Public Health Physician and Urban Epidemiologist, Research Initiative for Cities Health and Equity (RICHE Africa), University of Cambridge, and University of Cape Town

"This book is an important contribution to the study of urban health. By its careful exposition of the tools of science, including definitions and methods, it establishes a coherent base to guide future exploration. Urban Public Health will serve scholars and students alike and should be required reading in all urban health courses." -- Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Professor of Urban Policy and Health, The New School