Doctoral Student Research
GSD Doctoral Students Working on Health
The doctoral students below and researching health and are supervised by faculty affiliated with the Health Places Design Lab.
Jae Hyun Kim
Interests: Economic Development, Urban Mobility & Technology, Travel Behavior, Transportation Research & Planning, Sustainable Mobility, Walkability, Accessibility, Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, Urban Data Analytics, Healthy Cities, Age-Friendly Cities, Urban Policy
Doctoral Graduates
Aisha Densmore-Bey
Interests: arts activism, artist housing, affordable housing, art and public programming, urban planning, museums, art-guided public health initiatives, equitable neighborhoods, art and design, public art
Tianyu Su
Interests: Urban Technology and Innovation, Data Analytics and Visualization, Data- Driven and Data-Informed Design, Healthy Places and Cities, Technology Ethics, Design Education, Data and Computing Education
Ashley Tannebaum
Interests: healthy environments, child development, mental health, physical health, civic spaces, learning environments, holistic design, social design, sustainability
Yingying Lu
Interests: walking, active transportation, physical activity and built environment, walkability modeling
Carolina San Miguel
Interests: child friendly neighborhoods, child-centered urbanism & activism, social design, ecological urbanities, community, family & human development
Jihoon Song
Interests: green space planning, landscape diversity, mental health and physical activity, GIS and quantitative research methods, environmental planning, and urban design
Faculty Research
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