The UCLA Luskin Center for Innoation will be sponsoring Net Impact for an evening with Dr. RichardJackson from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health for a provocative presentation on how the built environment affects human health. Dinner will be provided and there will be time
for networking after the presentation. Register Here.Dr.
Jackson is the recipient of the 2015 Henry Hope Reed Award given by the Notre
Dame School of Architecture to “an individual working outside the practice of
architecture who has supported the cultivation of the traditional city, its
architecture and art.” To quote Michael Lykoudis of the Notre Dame School of
Architecture, “Dr. Jackson’s research has demonstrated how cities with mixed
use, pedestrian-friendly urbanism provide an environment that promotes health
and well-being. In the midst of a national debate on health care, he has
realigned the focus to include a holistic approach to fitness that examines the
causes of poor health rather than just a cure.”Dr. Jackson is an elected member of the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Throughout his
career, he has served the California Health Department in many leadership
positions in environmental health and infectious disease, including the highest
post, State Health Officer. For nine years he was director of the CDC’s
National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta and received the
Presidential Distinguished Service award. We are honored to have Dr. Jackson as
our guest and we look forward to learning more about how we can
improve public health.