YSPH Climate Change and Health Seminar: "Climate Change and Urban Health: Opportunities for Research and Action"

Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PHD, MPH, is Director of the Urban Health Collaborative and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University. From 2014 to 2023 she was the Dana and David Dornsife Dean of the Dornsife School of Public Health. 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. Dr. Diez Roux is internationally known for her research on the social determinants of population health and the study of how neighborhood physical and social environments affect health. Her research areas include social epidemiology and health disparities, psychosocial factors, social environment-gene interactions, environmental health effects, urban health, and the use of multilevel methods and complex systems approaches in population health. She has led large NIH and foundation funded research and training programs in the United States and in collaboration with various institutions in Latin America and is currently Principal Investigator of the Wellcome Trust-funded SALURBAL (Salud Urbana en América Latina/Urban Health in Latin America Study) study and the NIH-funded Drexel Center on Climate Change and Urban Health (CCUH). She is currently Co-Chair of the Population Health Roundtable of NAS. She has received the Wade Hampton Frost Award from the American Public Health Association, the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Epidemiology from the American College of Epidemiology, and the Rothman Career Award from the Society for Epidemiologic Research. She is an elected member of the American Epidemiological Society, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.