Making Healthy Places

How to Design and Build for Well Being, Equity, and Sustainability

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 12:00am EST

Webinars

Can we design and build places that are beneficial to people’s physical, mental, and emotional health, while also advancing equity and protecting the health of the planet? Yes!

Join the editors of the book, Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability, together with moderator Dr. Lois M. Takahashi, Director of the USC Price School in Sacramento, for a conversation about how to make that happen. The panel will discuss the relationship of the built environment to equity and health disparities, climate change and resilience, new technological developments in the built environment, and the evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This 75-minute session will feature a moderated conversation among our panel of experts and then move into audience questions. Participants of the webinar will:

Learn some of the latest research on health and well-being, equity, sustainability, and resilience related to the built environment.
Gain practical information on the role of the built environment in addressing major societal challenges.

Panel:

Katherine Catalano, Deputy Director, Center for Climate, Health and Equity at APHA
Nisha D. Botchwey, PhD, MCRP, MPH is the Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota
Andrew Dannenberg, MD, MPH, is an affiliate professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington in Seattle
Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH is Senior Vice President of the Trust for Public Land, and professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health

Participants

Nisha D. Botchwey

Nisha D. Botchwey, PhD, MCRP, MPH is the Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and the Russell M. and Elizabeth M. Bennett Chair in Excellence in Public Affairs. She previously served as Associate Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of City and Regional Planning, adjunct professor of Public Health in Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, and Associate Dean of Academic Programs at Georgia Tech Professional Education. She coauthored Health Impact Assessment in the United States and multiple peer reviewed publications.

Andrew L. Dannenberg

Andrew L. Dannenberg, MD, MPH, is an affiliate professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he teaches courses on healthy community design and on health impact assessment. For the past decade his research and teaching have focused on examining the health aspects of planning and designing our built environment including land use and transportation.

Howard Frumkin

Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH is Senior Vice President of the Trust for Public Land, and professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health, where he was Dean from 2010-2016. He was previously head of Our Planet, Our Health at the Wellcome Trust, director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), and Special Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health, and Professor and Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health at Emory Univ

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