The Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse is a collaboration between the Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of the National Prevention Strategy and Healthy Community Design Program, National Network of Public Health Institutes, the American Planning Association's Planning and Community Health Research Center, and the American Public Health Association. It is coordinated by a multi-institution leadership team with guidance and contributions from a Committee of Champions for Change, a group of professionals working at the nexus of planning and public health who serve as advisors and key experts to share and disseminate tools, best practices, and lessons learned to support the creation of healthier environments through cross-sectoral collaboration. The group works to build bridges between public health and the community design/built environment fields through the development of resources and educational opportunities.
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology's School of City and Regional Planning is the institutional home for the Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse. The School is a leader in sustainable and healthy planning education, and engagement with practitioners nationally and internationally. Its faculty are committed to environment and health planning and thus invests in making the Clearinghouse the go-to resource for this emerging intersection across architecture, health impact assessment, planning, transportation engineering, and public health.
Partners in development of the Clearinghouse include:
- American Planning Association
- American Public Health Association
- National Network of Public Health Institutes
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Office of the Surgeon General, in advancement of the National Prevention Strategy
Leadership
- Nisha D. Botchwey, PhD, MCRP, MPH, Associate Professor, School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Christopher Kochtitzky, MCP, Associate Director for Program Development, Emergency and Environmental Health Services, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Shawn McIntosh, Program Manager, Community Transformation Grants, American Public Health Association
- Anna Ricklin, MHS, Manager, Planning and Community Health Research Center, American Planning Association
Georgia Tech Graduate Research Assistants
- Meghan McMullen
- Kate Wilson
Webmaster
- Michael Alberghini
