Rethinking building design for the health of people and the planet
Adele Houghton, DrPH ’23, is creating new tools to help real estate teams become more responsive to the health needs of their buildings’ occupants and the surrounding communities.
Healthy Buildings on the Horizon
From fighting coronavirus to boosting cognitive performance, Joe Allen thinks healthy buildings will be the next public health revolution.
Unleashing New Tools to Build a Healthier Environment
The Login5 Foundation, which had previously supported the initial development and debut of the CoBE calculator, is continuing its support of the project with a new gift of $1.5 million.
Opinion: How our buildings can be optimized to curb coronavirus
While the conditions of crowded cities can aid the spread of viral illnesses such as coronavirus, the buildings we inhabit can act as important barriers to contamination when properly optimized, according to a March 4, 2020 op-ed in…
Renewal of NIEHS grant paves way for new research on how complex environmental exposures affect health
August 8, 2019 – With the renewal of a major federal grant, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s NIEHS Center for Environmental Health will focus on a broad new objective—the exploration of how a wide variety of…
Philanthropic Impact: Login5 Foundation Supports Food Sustainability and Green Building Initiatives
The Login5 Foundation gave $1.5 million to the School to launch the Co-Benefits of the Built Environment (CoBE) calculator, an open-access online tool that city planners and developers can use to measure energy cost savings, emission reductions, and…