VIDEO: Building Healthy Communities

A leading voice in the movement to build the places we live with an emphasis on public health spoke at UNC Charlotte last week.

More than 200 people came to UNCC’s Center City Campus to hear Dr. Richard Jackson share his ideas for a radical rethinking of the physical structure of American communities. Former chair of UCLA’s Environmental Health Sciences Department and Director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health, Dr. Jackson has spent much of his career studying the relationship between the contours of a city and the health of its inhabitants.

Prior to the talk, Jackson sat down to discuss his philosophy, the troubling state of many neighborhoods, and why things might soon be getting better.

The lecture was sponsored by BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina and hosted by the Department of Public Health Sciences. It was organized as part of an annual CHHS event coinciding with National Public Health Week. The talk was co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Arts + Architecture, the Integrated Network for Social Sustainability, UNC Charlotte Urban Institute, and Center for Professional & Applied Ethics

by: Wills Citty

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