Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL), Urban Health in Latin America, is an international collaboration that studies how urban environments and urban policies impact the health of city residents and environmental sustainability throughout Latin America. SALURBAL’s findings inform policies and interventions to create healthier, more equitable, and more sustainable cities worldwide. Learn more at www.lacurbanhealth.org.

The Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL)/Urban Health in Latin America project is funded by the Wellcome Trust (205177/Z/16/Z).

Members of the SALURBAL Group contributed to the overall conduct of the study as well as to data collection, data processing, and data harmonization for this paper. The full SALURBAL group includes Marcio Alazraqui, Hugo Spinelli, Carlos Guevel, Vanessa Di Cecco, Adela Tisnés, Carlos Leveau, Adrián Santoro, Damián Herkovits, Andrés Trotta, Patricia Aguirre, Serena Mónica Perner: National University of Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago Rodríguez López, Natalia Tumas: CIECS - Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina; Nelson Gouveia, Maria Antonietta Mascolli, Anne Dorothée Slovic, Lucas Soriano Martins, Cláudio Makoto Kanai: Universidad de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Maurício Barreto, Gervásio Santos, Anderson Dias de Freitas, Aureliano Sancho Souza Paiva, José Firmino de Sousa Filho, Maria Izabel dos Santos Bell, Roberto Fernandes Silva Andrade: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador Bahia, Brazil; Caio Porto De Castro: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador Bahia, Brazil; Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso, Mariana Carvalho de Menezes, Maria de Fatima Rodrigues Pereira de Pina, Daniel Albert Skaba, Joanna Miguez Nery Guimarães, Vanderlei Pascoal de Matos: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Mariana Carvalho de Menezes: Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil; Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Carina Maris de Souza, Débora Moraes Coelho, Denise Marques Sales, Guilherme Aparecido Santos Aguilar, Guilherme Ottoni, Julia de Carvalho Nascimento, Lídia Maria de Oliveira Morais, Mariana de Melo Santos, Solimar Carnavalli Rocha, Uriel Moreira Silva: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Camila Teixeira Vaz: Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil; Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade: Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso, Brazil; Patricia Frenz, Tania Alfaro, Carolina Nazzal, Cynthia Córdova, Pablo Ruiz, Mauricio Fuentes, Marianela Castillo, Rodrigo Mora, Sebastian Pedrero, Lorena Rodríguez, Sandra Flores, Tamara Doberti: School of Public Health, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile; Alejandra Vives Vergara, Alejandro Salazar, Cristián Schmitt, Daniela Olivares, Francisca González, Fernando Baeza, Flavia Angelini, Ignacio Díaz, Laura Orlando, Natalia Díaz, Pablo Campos, Roxana Valdebenito, Victoria León: Department of Public Health, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile; Andrea Cortinez-O’Ryan: Universidad de La Frontera, Santiago de Chile; Olga Lucía Sarmiento, Andrés Felipe Aguilar, Julián Arellana, Claudia Bedoya, Jorge Alexander Bonilla, Marcelo Botero, Sergio Cabrales, Germán Carvajal, Natalia Cely, Diego Lucumí Cuesta, Carlos Mauricio Díaz, Karen Fajardo, Catalina González, Silvia Alejandra González, Oscar Guaje, John Alexis Guerra, Paula Guevara, Tomás Guevara Aladino, Luis Ángel Guzmán, Philipp Hessel, Diana Higuera, Bernardo Huertas, Jorge Huertas, Ana Maria Jaramillo, Joaquín Hernando Jaramillo Sabogal, Mario Linares, Julieth Lopez, Diego Lucumí, Paola Martinez, Andrés Medaglia, Daniela Mendez, Ricardo Morales, Felipe Montes, Anamaria Muñoz Florez, Alejandro Palacio, Fabian Camilo Peña, José David Pinzón, Camilo Triana, Andres Felipe Useche, Maria Alejandra Wilches, Sandra Zúñiga: Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia; Carlos Moncada: Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia; Lina Martínez: Universidad Icesi, Cali, Colombia; Jose David Meisel: Universidad de Ibagué, Ibagué, Colombia; Eliana Martinez: Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia; María Fernanda Kroker-Lobos, Manuel Ramirez-Zea, Monica Mazariegos, Analí Morales: INCAP Research Center for the Prevention of Chronic Diseases (CIIPEC), Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemala; Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez, Arantxa Colchero Aragones, Carolina Perez-Ferrer, Francisco Javier Prado-Galbarro, Nancy Paulina López Olmedo, Filipa de Castro, Rosalba Rojas-Martínez, Alejandra Jauregui, Dalia Stern, Horacio Riojas, José Luis Texcalac, Herney Alonso Rengifo Reina, Desirée Vidaña Pérez, Yenisei Ramírez Toscano: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Mexico City, Mexico; J. Jaime Miranda, Cecilia Anza-Ramirez, Francisco Diez-Canseco, Akram Hernández Vásquez, Lorena Saavedra-Garcia, Jessica H. Zafra-Tanaka (CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru); Ross Hammond: Brookings Institute, Washington, D.C., USA; Daniel Rodriguez, Maryia Bakhtsiyarava, Iryna Dronova, Xize Wang, Mika Ruchama Moran, Yuanyuan Zhao, Yang Ju, Xavier Delclòs-Alió: Department of City and Regional Planning, the University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA; Peter Hovmand, Ellis Ballard, Jill Kuhlberg: Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA; Ana Diez Roux, Binod Acharya, Amy Auchincloss, Ione Avila-Palencia, Sharrelle Barber, Usama Bilal, Ariela Braverman, Dustin Fry, Felipe Garcia-España, Katherine Indvik, Josiah Kephart, Carolyn Knoll, Brent Langellier, Mariana Lazo, Ran Li, Gina Lovasi, Rosie Mae Henson, Kevin Martinez-Folgar, Steve Melly, Yvonne Michael, Kari Moore, Jeff Moore, Pricila Mullachery, Ana Ortigoza, Harrison Quick, D. Alexander Quistberg, Jordan Rodriguez Hernandez, Brisa Sanchez, S. Claire Slesinski, Ivana Stankov, Jose Tapia Granados, Bricia Trejo, Goro Yamada: Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

The authors extend a special acknowledgement to all current and former members of SALURBAL’s Policy Group, the engine behind all of the project’s dissemination, communications, policymaker engagement, and policy translation efforts: Adriana Lein, S. Claire Slesinski, Katherine Indvik, Jose Siri, Andrea Bolinaga, Alejandra Vives, Andrea Cortínez O'Ryan, Anne Dorothée Slovic, Diana Higuera, Firmino Filho, Francisco Diez-Canseco, Hugo Spinelli, Joanna Miguez Nery Guimarães, Laura Baldovino Chiquillo, Laura Vivian Orlando Romero, Leticia de Oliveira Cardoso, Lídia Maria de Oliveira Morais, Lorena Rodriguez, Lorena Saavedra Garcia, Luz Mery Cardenas Cardenas, Mariana Lazo, Mónica Mazariegos, Olga Lucia Sarmiento, Paula Guevara, Rodrigo Mora, Roxana Valdebenito, Tomás Guevara Aladino, and Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa.

SALURBAL also gratefully acknowledges the contribution of members of the project’s advisory board, policy and community representatives who supported the project’s six policy evaluation studies, members of the LAC-Urban Health Network, and many other urban health stakeholders who have supported our efforts across the region.