About
Alex Quistberg is Associate Research Professor in the Urban Health Collaborative and the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health. He also has a courtesy appointment as Adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine in Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
His current research focuses on the epidemiology of road traffic safety, the built environment, and global and urban health. His work implements methods to measure the built environment objectively, including from geographic information systems (GIS), virtual audits, and artificial intelligence via computer vision and deep learning. He currently leads the Built Environment, Pedestrian Injury, and Deep Learning (BEPIDL) study funded by the Fogarty International Center at NIH and the Urban Health and Climate Change in Informal Settlements in Latin America Study (ESCALA) study funded by the Lacuna Fund. Both these grant are in partnership with the Universidad de los Andes, and the latter also with Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia. He is also a co-investigator of the SALURBAL project, funded by Wellcome Trust. His work has primarily focused on improving safety for walking and biking, including the evaluation of policies on road safety outcomes.
His past work has involved trauma registries, electronic health records, health literacy, health disparities, teen driver safety, child passenger safety, pediatric window falls, and boating safety. He also serves as a Collaborator on the Global Burden of Disease study at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). He has served Statistical Editor of the BMJ journal Injury Prevention since 2016. He recently joined Drexel’s Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI).