Professor Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), and colleagues presented, “Environmental Barriers to Safe and Effective Care for Children with Mental and Behavioural Health Conditions in the Emergency Department” at the 2024 European Healthcare Design Conference in London, UK. The presentation provided an overview of the Agency for […]
Devi Soman, doctoral student working Anjali Joseph at the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), received Global Alliance’s Vera Paster Award for 2024. The Paster Award is given annually to a student in the mental health disciplines who shows particular promise for enhancing the well-being of people who have been marginalized by racism.
Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), shared her healthcare design experience in an article published in the April 2024 Special Edition of Construction & Design. In the article, Joseph discusses lessons learned over decades of researching, testing and helping to implement healthcare design solutions. She emphasized the point […]
Sara Kennedy, doctoral student working with Anjali Joseph at the Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing, received the 2023-2024 Arthur N. Tuttle Jr. Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning from the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) to support her dissertation research. She is studying the impact of the built environment on workflows […]
The Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT) recently received the 2023 Touchstone Award in the Platinum Category through the Center for Health Design (CHD) for their project, Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-centered Design in the Operating Room (RIPCHD.OR). The RIPCHD.OR project was awarded its first Touchstone Award in the Gold Category in […]
Anjali Joseph, Sahar Mihandoust, doctoral student Monica Gripko and doctoral candidate Swati Goel, all with the Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing (CHFDT), presented “Patient Room Design: Engaging Clnical Teams Through Simulation-Based Evaluation and Design” on November 5, 2023 at the Healthcare Design Conference in New Orleans, LA. The presentation reviewed the work of […]
Anjali Joseph and doctoral student Sara Kennedy, both with the Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing (CHFDT), presented “Physical Environment Considerations for the Future of Robotic Surgery” on November 7, 2023 at the Healthcare Design Conference in New Orleans, LA. The presentation reviewed the aims of the project, methodology, design considerations for Architects and […]
Swati Goel, doctoral candidate working with Anjali Joseph at the Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing, recently received the 2023-2024 Griffin/McKahan/Zilm (GMZ) Fellowship from the Foundation for Health Environments Research (FHER), the 2023-24 Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant, and an Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship from the Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President for […]
Devi Soman, doctoral student working with Anjali Joseph at the Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing (CHFDT), received the 2023 Joseph G. Sprague New Investigator Award for her dissertation study on “The Impact of Free-Standing Birth Center (FSBC) Physical Environments on the Patient Experiences and Maternal Health Outcomes for Racially and Ethnically Diverse Women.” […]
The Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing (CHFDT) in collaboration with Prisma Health held the “Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health in the ED” workshop on September 11, 2023. The workshop was conducted as part of the AHRQ funded patient safety learning lab, ‘Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-centered Design for Pediatric mental and behavioral […]
