ULI Sacramento held a Building Healthy Places: Health & the Built Environment program in April focusing on the design of the built environment and how it can have a crucial and positive influence on improving public health and well-being.
The esteemed panel featured national and local experts in this cutting-edge, interdisciplinary work. ULI just released “The Building Healthy Places Toolkit”, compiled by national experts that provides 21 recommendations for promoting health at the building or project scale.  Attendees learned about the critical role development and land use can make to create places that contribute to healthier people and communities. Panelists, who are pictured here, were: Elizabeth Shreeve, AICP
MLA Chair, ULI San Francisco, Building Healthy Places Initiative, ULI Global Award of Excellence Winner for UC Davis West Village; Olivia Kasirye, MD, MS, Public Health Officer, Sacramento County; Sacramento County Active Design Guidelines Champion

Edie Zusman, MD, MBA, Medical Director for Sutter East Bay Neuroscience Center; Neurosurgeon; Active Design and Health Policy Expert; Elizabeth Baca, MD, Senior Health Advisor, Governor’s Office of Planning and Research; Healthy Buildings/Healthy Communities Expert and Meea Kang, President, Domus Development, Healthy Communities Developer.

For more information on the ULI Building Healthy Places Initiative go to the following link:  http://uli.org/research/centers-initiatives/building-healthy-places-initiative/