Continuing the Conversation Webinar, January 19, 2011

Topic: Making Healthy Places: A Built Environment for Health, Well-being and Sustainability

Speaker: Richard Jackson, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair, Environmental Health Sciences
UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health

Dr. Richard Jackson's research focuses on how the built environment impacts health; an issue he believes takes on critical importance as we face an avalanche of chronic and preventable diseases and staggering environmental challenges. Dr. Jackson believes we must co-lead efforts to create healthier conditions—asserting the need for healthier and smarter environments—efficient, dense, diverse, livable, safe and green places that restore and protect health.

A pediatrician and public health leader, Dr. Jackson served in many leadership positions with the California Health Department, including the highest, State Health Officer. For nine years he was Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta. In 2005, he was recognized with the highest civilian award for US Government service, the Presidential Distinguished Executive Award.

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