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Adele Houghton
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Adele Houghton

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ahoughton@hsph.harvard.edu

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Adele Houghton, FAIA, DrPH, LEED AP, works at the intersection of buildings, public health, and climate change. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows and received a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she also teaches. Her book, Architectural Epidemiology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), co-authored with Professor Carlos Castillo-Salgado of Johns Hopkins University, proposes a novel method for architectural design: combining neighborhood-scale environmental health data with participatory community engagement to maximize a building's positive ripple effect on community and planetary health.

MArch, 05/2003, Architecture
Rice University, Houston, TX

MPH, 05/2013, Public Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

DrPH, 05/2023, Public Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

AB, 06/1999, Architecture and Urbanism
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

American Institute of Architects College of Fellows 2023
American Institute of Architects

Delta Omega Honor Society, Alpha Chapter2013
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Registered Architect in the State of Texas2006
Texas Board of Architectural Examiners

LEED Accredited Professional2003
U.S. Green Building Council

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