Healthy Communities - Community Health Impact from COVID-19

2021 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: COMMUNITIES

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Join an expert panelists discussion of how architecture has contributed to Black, Indigenous, & People of Color communities bearing the brunt of COVID-19, and how we do better going forward-can set up the post-pandemic discussion. They also explore technical concerns contributing to community health such as safe air quality and movement of aerosols as well as social determinants of health and designing for community connection.

Learning objectives

  • Learn about community health metrics.
  • Consider the coming climate challenges and how to mitigate them (heat island effect, air pollution).
  • Discuss what post-COVID neighborhood improvements and community health infrastructure will look like.
  • Understand the technical concerns contributing to community health, the social determinants of health, and designing for community connection.

 

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 $30  member
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Instructors

  • William Banfleth headshot

    William Bahnfleth

    PhD., PE, Fellow/Presidential Member ASHRAE

    Professor of architectural engineering | Pennsylvania State University

    William Bahnfleth is a professor of architectural engineering at the Pennsylvania State University...
  • Lynne Dearborn Headshot

    Lynne M. Dearborn

    PhD, AIA

    Professor of Architecture | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    Professor Lynne M. Dearborn PhD, AIA, leads curricular development in Health and the Built...
  • Cierra Higgins

    Cierra Higgins

    NOMA

    Health Fellow and Designer I | Perkins and Will

    Cierra is a native of Kansas City, MO, and recently graduated from Washington University in St....
  • Joanna Lombard headshot

    Joanna Lombard

    AIA, LEED AP

    Professor | University of Miami School of Architecture / Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine 

    Joanna Lombard, is a registered architect and Professor at the University of Miami School of...