The Urban Health Network for Latin America and the Caribbean

18/09/2026

SALURBAL-Climate at the Third International Conference on Health and Biodiversity, led by CoHab Initiative (Cohab Initiative)

🎙️ Yesterday, Dr. Nancy López-Olmedo, PI of the Mexico team, presented at the Biodiversity for Community Health and Well-being session, connecting our project's regional evidence to the conference's central theme.

🤝 Fer Cruz, Project Director, also joined the conference, contributing to conversations and partnerships at the intersection of health and biodiversity.

28/08/2026

📻 ¿Qué idea quisiera que los tomadores de decisiones aplicarán?

Este mes la Dra. Olga L. Sarmiento - Olga Lucia Sarmiento (Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de los Andes y co-investigadora principal de ) conversó con la Dra. Tania Alfaro (PI de SALURBAL-Clima en la Universidad de Chile) en Lo Público en Salud, programa de Radio Universidad de Chile producido por Escuela de Salud Pública Universidad de Chile

Conversaron sobre los resultados de SALURBAL-Clima y cómo los tomadores de decisión pueden aplicar esta evidencia, teniendo en cuenta eventos climáticos como el fenómeno de El Niño.

🎧 Escucha la conversación completa en el canal de YouTube de Escuela de Salud Pública Universidad de Chile

26/08/2026

📚 SALURBAL-Climate at

The 2026 ISEE conference takes place in Munich, August 30 to September 2.

We're happy to share that, besides other team participations across various sessions, there will be a symposium, co-chaired by Josiah Kephart, and Nelson Gouveia.

🌎 Emerging Climate-Health Threats in Latin American Cities

A panel of researchers and trainees from Brazil, Chile, and the U.S. will share findings on the health impacts of heat, tropical cyclones, floods, and air pollution across ten Latin American countries.

📅 Wednesday, September 2 | 13:45–15:15 (CEST) | Room 1
🎙️ Presenters: Salvador Ayala Pizarro, Diana Rocio Higuera Mendieta, Ana Peralta-Garcia, Jinwen Xu

If you're attending, we hope to see you at this symposium and at the other sessions where SALURBAL-Climate evidence will be presented! 👋

13/08/2026

🌎 Explore e compare indicadores climáticos e de saúde de mais de 371 cidades da América Latina.

Com os Perfis de Cidade e as Comparações entre Cidades, você pode explorar dados de 151 cidades brasileiras, incluindo Belo Horizonte, e de mais de 220 outras cidades latino-americanas.

🔗 Explore os dados: www.salurbal.org/pt/explore/

28/07/2026

[ES]

📢 Nueva publicación de

Desigualdades espaciales en la infraestructura urbana para la actividad física en el Gran Santiago, Chile

Liderado por Marianela Castillo-Riquelme, este estudio analizó 34 comunas y 1,623 barrios para entender cómo se distribuye la infraestructura que promueve la actividad física.

🔗 Link en bio e historias

[EN]

📢 New publication from SALURBAL

Spatial Inequalities in Urban Infrastructure that Fosters Physical Activity in Greater Santiago, Chile

Led by Marianela Castillo-Riquelme, this study analyzed 34 municipalities and 1,623 neighborhoods to understand how infrastructure that supports physical activity is distributed.

🔗 Link in bio and stories

23/07/2026

🏞️🏙️ In 363 Latin American cities, 21 million people live at risk of river floods.

A new study from , led by Jinwen Xu - ITS Berkeley, analyzed these cities across 9 Latin American countries to understand how riverine flood hazard is distributed within cities in the region.

📊 About 7% of the 297.9 million residents analyzed live in flood-prone areas, in some cities, it's the majority. That risk isn't spread evenly, it's concentrated in just a few parts of the city.

🔗 Link in bio and stories.

14/07/2026

📢 New Publication: Community Voices to Understand and Promote Liveability in the Green Corridor Urban Transformation Project in Bogotá, Colombia. Led by Lina María Gómez-García and published in BMC Public Health.

Before construction began on Bogotá's first Green Corridor (7th Street), our team captured a baseline of how residents experience their neighborhood, combining a household survey with the 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘝𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 citizen science method.

📊 66 citizen scientists captured 1,123 photo-narratives documenting daily life along the corridor.

🎯 Citizen-driven solutions included co-designing accessible sidewalks with people with disabilities, expanding street lighting, and educational campaigns on public space use.

🏙️ The findings were shared directly with city policymakers, and the research team was later invited to help redesign a segment of the corridor.

🔗Read the paper: https://lnkd.in/gzsdTDbR

25/06/2026

¿Cuántos días de calor extremo tiene tu ciudad al año? ☀️

Con los Perfiles de Ciudad de hashtag puedes ver este y otros indicadores de clima y salud urbana para 371 ciudades de América Latina.

Explora los datos de tu ciudad → https://www.salurbal.org/es/explore

15/06/2026

Extendemos la invitación a este webinar

📍🌎 | Faltan pocos días para nuestro próximo seminario web

Te invitamos a participar en el seminario web:

🔬 "Exposición al plomo a través de fronteras: implicaciones para la salud y el envejecimiento saludable de las mujeres"

La Dra. Marcela Tamayo Ortiz, de Columbia University, compartirá evidencia científica sobre cómo las exposiciones ambientales trascienden fronteras geográficas y sociales, y por qué es fundamental visibilizar sus efectos para fortalecer las acciones de prevención y salud pública.

📅 Jueves 18 de junio de 2026
🕑 2:00 p.m. (hora de Guatemala)
🗣️ Seminario en español

🔗 Regístrate aquí:
https://drexel.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LRXhdxoQQZWuXB7ERSkuiQ

💬 ¿Consideras que los riesgos ambientales reciben suficiente atención dentro de las políticas de salud pública de nuestros países?

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