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Reimagining Hospitals Worldwide: Best Practices for Diverse Healthcare Facilities

AIAU24-AAH07R
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Description

With an increasing demand for medical design expertise throughout the world, this course provides AEC professionals with the crucial tools needed to adapt to local contexts, reimagine healthcare delivery models, ensure successful design outcomes, and have a positive impact on community health globally and locally.

Hear from expert speakers, with experience spearheading large-scale hospital and master planning projects around the globe, on the complexities, nuances, variations, and influences impacting healthcare planning and design. Learn the many factors affecting healthcare delivery, including local public health systems, socio-economic conditions, demographics, an aging population, payer and business models, pandemic preparedness, climate, regional culture, codes and regulations, project delivery methods, and project teams operating across time zones. Explore compelling case studies from resource-limited settings to advanced urban centers, demonstrating how contemporary architectural models, sustainable practices, innovative solutions, and technological advancements are revolutionizing healthcare facilities worldwide. 

This course was recorded live on September 10, 2024.

Learning Objectives

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Understand the comparisons, complexities, and nuances of master planning and design influences on projects around the globe, including in the U.S., Canada, Singapore, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Turkey, and Peru. 

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Gain insights into how cultural, demographic, economic, and environmental factors influence the planning, design, and architecture of hospitals. 

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Examine real-world examples that have successfully addressed the unique challenges of various populations, focusing on both resource-limited settings and advanced urban centers.

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Identify innovations, practical strategies, best-practices, and prototypes for enhancing person-centered care and promoting community health on a global scale. 

Learn from diverse perspectives how they balance growth, health, equity, climate, and population health outcomes.

Presented in partnership with the Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH).

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Instructors
Jeffrey Brand
AIA, EDAC

Jeffrey Brand is Principal, Executive Director, and leader of the healthcare practice at Perkins Eastman, one of the world’s top-ranked healthcare design firms. A recognized expert in and frequent speaker on the design of programmatically complex healthcare facilities and medical schools, Jeff collaborates with prominent clinicians at leading institutions to create new delivery models that speed the shift from institutional inpatient care to accessible, personalized outpatient care. Emphasizing evidence-based design and in combination with a robust technology infrastructure, Jeff’s planning and design innovations have enhanced the efficacy of complex care in compassionate, human-centered, design-forward settings, resulting in new design paradigms.

Jason Harper
AIA, LEED AP

Jason Harper has honed and applied his talent for healthcare facility design throughout his 30-year career. He has successfully guided many healthcare clients through complex, multi-phased planning, and construction projects. With his experience and knowledge of the medical industry and its emerging trends, Jason guides his clients to solve both short-range problems and to achieve long-range planning goals. His commitment to fostering the mission of his healthcare clients guides his efforts in delivering projects that are at once functional, beautiful, and sustainable. Jason is focused on the response to healthcare reform and the impact of design decisions on public health. As a response to Hurricane Sandy, Jason led efforts to increase the resiliency of NYC’s hospitals and healthcare facilities.

Rita Ho
AIA, NCARB, LEED AP

Rita has over 20 years of experience in the field of architecture and over 15 years in healthcare projects in U.S. & Asia. Currently, she is a project manager at Kaiser Permanente dedicated to providing high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve health of the members and serve the communities. Rita is currently co-chair of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health Webinar Committee.

Manjiri Paprikar
AIA, LEED AP

Manjiri Paprikar has a keen interest in medical programming, data analytics, planning and architecture and has worked in the healthcare sector for over 18 years. With a strong academic background in healthcare planning, design, and research, she has worked on multiple projects, on various phases, and in diverse market sectors. Along with experience in facility planning and phasing, she has knowledge of the medical industry, equipment planning and its emerging trends. This holistic approach to learning has enabled her to understand the requirements and goals of her clients and user groups and bring value to their needs. She works towards realizing the operational and design vision of the facilities and to enhance the staff, patient, and visitor experience in the spaces she designs.