Advisors + Leadership

HERE Building, Thames Valley Park, UK | Photo Courtesy of Jack Hobhouse & Element Four | ★★★

Advisors

To inform its work, CfAD has long collaborated with the research community. The CfAD Research Advisory creates a formal space for experts in areas across the built environment to inform CfAD’s efforts, ranging from the Fitwel Standard to research reports to quantitative impact analyses. This advisory is committed to creating cross-sector relationships and bridges the gap between research and implementation. If interested in learning more, please reach out to us at info@centerforactivedesign.org.

Members of the Research Advisory include:

  • Affiliate Professor, Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Dept. of Urban Design and Planning

    University of Washington, Seattle

  • Chief Executive Officer

    HXE Partners, a Morrow Sodali company

  • Professor and Director, Light and Health Research Center, Department of Population Health Science and Policy

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  • Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health and Pediatrics

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  • Associate Professor and Program Director

    Drexel University

  • Founder and Director

    Golden Psychology

  • President
    Biositu, LLC

    Instructor
    Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

  • Professor, Department of Architecture
    Presidential Impact Fellow
    Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA Endowed Professorship in Health Facilities Design Fellow, Center for Health Systems & Design

    Texas A&M University

  • Research Professor Emeritus and Director of the Healthy Homes Program

    University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • Distinguished Professor and Chair, Health Policy & Management; Director, Center for Systems & Community Design and Co-Director, NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Ctr.

    Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, City University of New York

  • Director of Design Management

    SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC

  • Professor of Architectural Engineering

    The Pennsylvania State University

  • Director, Social and Behavioral Sciences

    HDR

  • Associate Professor, Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction

    College of Engineering, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

  • Co-founder and CEO

    SeeAir

  • Professor of Epidemiology

    Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Board of Directors

Deb Gorhan, Chair
Director, Sustainability Culture & Engagement, Johnson & Johnson

Michael Vardaro, J.D., Secretary
Managing Partner, Zetlin & De Chiara LLP

Kevin Davis, Treasurer
Americas CEO, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels & Hospitality

Joanna Frank, President
CEO, Center for Active Design; President & CEO, Active Design Advisors, Inc. (Adai)

Thomas Foley (ex-officio)
Commissioner, New York City Department of Design and Construction

Ashwin Vasan, MD, PhD (ex-officio)
Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Les Bluestone, Director
President, Blue Sea Development Company and Blue Sea Construction Co.

David J. Burney FAIA, Director
Academic Director of Urban Placemaking Management, Visiting Associate Professor Grad Center for Planning

Ari Frankel, Director
Principal, KKR; Former Head of ESG at Solebury Trout

Dr. Elizabeth Garland, Director
Division Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine & Community Health; Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Fulya Kocak, Director
CEO & Founder, Fulya Kocak LLC; Former Head of ESG for Nareit

Jessica Long 
Senior Vice President, Environment Stewardship & Sustainability
Nareit

Setha Low, Ph.D, Director
Distinguished, Professor of Anthropology, Geography and Psychology and Director of the Public Space Research Group, CUNY Graduate Center

Rachel MacCleery
Co–executive director 
Urban Land Institute (ULI) Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate