Nine in 10 road traffic deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite this disproportionate burden, few studies have examined built environment correlates of road traffic injury in these settings, including in Latin America

Alex Quistberg Olga Lucia Sarmiento Luis A. Guzman María Alejandra Wilches Drexel Public Health EpiAndes Grupo SUR Uniandes Pontificia Universidad Javeriana We examined road traffic collisions in Bogotá, Colombia, occurring between 2015 and 2019, and assessed the association between neighborhood-level built environment features and pedestrian injury and death
Hiwot Y. Zewdie et al. 2024
Journal of Urban Health Springer Public Health

Alex Quistberg Olga Lucia Sarmiento Luis A. Guzman María Alejandra Wilches Drexel Public Health EpiAndes Grupo SUR Uniandes Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Springer Public Health We used descriptive statistics to characterize all police-reported road traffic collisions that occurred in Bogotá between 2015 and 2019.
Hiwot Y. Zewdie et al 2024
Journal of Urban Health Springer Public Health

Alex Quistberg Olga Lucia Sarmiento Luis A. Guzman María Alejandra Wilches Drexel Public Health EpiAndes Grupo SUR Uniandes Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Springer Public Health Cluster detection was used to identify spatial clustering of pedestrian collisions.
Hiwot Y. Zewdie et al. 2024
Journal of Urban Health Springer Public Health

Alex Quistberg Olga Lucia Sarmiento Luis A. Guzman María Alejandra Wilches Drexel Public Health EpiAndes Grupo SUR Uniandes Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Springer Public Health Hot spot analysis results for pedestrian collisions (A), injuries (B), and fatalities (C) in Bogotá between 2015 and 2019
Hiwot Y. Zewdie et al. 2024
Journal of Urban Health Springer Public Health

🗓️Today's workshop on Cost-benefit Analyses in Transport: Applications and Developments is underway!
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM (CET).
💻Join us to explore key insights and advancements in the field. Check out more details here: ubdpolicy.eu/workshop-cost-…

#TransportAnalysis #Workshop

Today we had an incredibly motivating meeting between ISGlobal and LAC-Urban Health. It's fantastic to collaborate again on urban health projects for LATAM! And reconnecting with many professionals like Olga Lucia Sarmiento and Ana V. Diez Roux was a pleasure. 🌎🏙️🌳

Ayer los ciudadanos científicos que participan en nuestro proyecto de habitabilidad en Bogotá (caso de estudio Cra. 7) le contaron a Movilidad Bogotá Planeación Bogotá Secretaría de Ambiente Secretaría Distrital de Salud Secretaría de Seguridad BOG Defensoría del Espacio Público.
Mucho por hacer en movilidad, espacio público y seguridad.

Nuestra publicación de LUR en 5 ciudades de Colombia ya esta disponible y de libre acceso. Un tremendo esfuerzo de colaboración entre diferentes instituciones con patrocinio MinCiencias Colombia .
Pueden accederla aquí:
link.springer.com/10.1007/s11356…

El Dr. Germán Casas Germán Casas Nieto participó en el #ForoTEA en el Senado de la República 🇨🇴 convocado por el senador German Blanco A

🧵

RSVP for 'Heat Impacts on the Health of New York State Residents,” a webinar presented by Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, PhD, of ColumbiaPublicHealth: tinyurl.com/y7uzc6am

Another amazing day of learning and discussing creative and decolonial storytelling on urban change, topped off by a talk about Bogotá Blocks of Care by Claudia López (ex-major of Bogotá), Astrid Daza, Diana Rodríguez and Change Stories researchers.

More about Change Stories in Bogotá at changestories.be.uw.edu/cities/bogota/

What a wonderful and inspiring Day #1 of the Change Stories Knowledge Exchange Event this was!

Omar Rincón nos enseña a desaprender y contar buenas historias. ⁦Change Stories⁩ ⁦

So many worlds colliding at this Change Stories panel. Alex Brennan (@FuturewiseWA), who I met in Berkeley in 2007 as a MCP student, and my amazing new colleague Ty Redden (at Department of Geography and Planning) who I finally met in Bogotá.

Great discussion on narratives, planning and urban change.

El cambio urbano no es algo técnico, requiere trabajo relacional, burócratas militantes, activistas, una academia comprometida… romper silos en el Estado y entre el Estado, la academia y comunidades.

Excelente conversación entre María José Álvarez Rivadulla Diana Rodríguez Franco ASTRID DAZA GOMEZ

Storytelling is a political act and an integral part of urban change!

Powerful experience visiting Manzana del Cuidado in Ciudad de Bolívar, offering for free so many amazing services to women and men in the neighborhood and promoting new ways of solidarity that way.