COVID-19, Ambient Air Pollution, and Environmental Health Inequities in Latin American Cities

Josiah L Kephart¹, Ione Avila-Palencia², Usama Bilal^{2

3}, Nelson Gouveia⁴, Waleska T Caiaffa⁵, Ana V Diez Roux^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, 3600 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. jlk465@drexel.edu.
² Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, 3600 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴ Department of Preventive Medicine, University of São Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
⁵ Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Editorial

Josiah L Kephart et al. J Urban Health. 2021 Jun.

. 2021 Jun;98(3):428-432.

doi: 10.1007/s11524-020-00509-8. Epub 2021 Jan 20.

Josiah L Kephart¹, Ione Avila-Palencia², Usama Bilal^{2

3}, Nelson Gouveia⁴, Waleska T Caiaffa⁵, Ana V Diez Roux^{2

3}

¹ Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, 3600 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. jlk465@drexel.edu.
² Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, 3600 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴ Department of Preventive Medicine, University of São Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
⁵ Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

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