The Team

Willkommen! Welcome! Saludos!

BHL is an Urban Health Think & Do Tank devoted to make neighborhoods healthier as strategy to build healthy cities. 


Alvaro Valera Sosa

BHL Director
Dipl. Arch | MSc Public Health
Research & Development

Sonia Medina

Project Manager
Active Mobility and Gender
Urban Management TU-Berlin

Silvan Händeler

User Experience
Visual Communication
Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin

Anna Au

Health Research & Media
MSc Urban Management TU-Berlin
BSc Public Health Fu Jen Catholic University

Netra Naik

UrbanCare Climate Design
MSc Urban Environmental Planning
Research Fellow Humboldt Foundation

Anita Fuchs

Participatory Action Research
MA Scenic Art | Set Design
TU-Berlin | MFA Boston University

Akarsh Chandran

Streetscape Design
Dipl. -Ing Arch
Urban Management TU-Berlin

Gregorio Pezzoli

UrbanCare GIS
M.Sc. Geography and Urban Planning
Research Fellow University of Bergamo

Carolina Schwedhelm

Health Research Advisory
MPH, MSc Epidemiology
German Institute of Human Nutrition

Juan Cequera

Prototyping & Visualization
MSc Arch. TU-Berlin 

Andres Otero

Ing. Estructural y Sismorresistencia
Universidad Central de Venezuela
MSc Earthquake with Disaster Management
University College London

Agustín Andrade

Asesoria Jurídica y Comercial
Abogado
Derecho Integración Económica
Universidad de Salamanca