Dr. Jackson is co-author of the book Urban Sprawl and Public Health.  He works on the health impacts of environmental threats, ranging from toxic substances, chemical body burdens, terrorism, loss of resources, destructive farm policies, climate change, and bad urban design.  Over the past decade a portion of his work has been on how the 'built environment', including architecture and urban planning, affects health. It is this last topic that he will speak to, the many ways that urban design impacts health - both physical and mental - of individuals and communities.

 

With the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Housing and Urban Design (HUD) and others joining the conversation that CNU has been having for 30 years, things are really heating up. 

 

Dr. Jackson is currently Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at UCLA, he is a pediatrician and public health leader. He has served as chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health, as the CDC National Center for Environmental Health’s director, as California’s state health officer, and on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects.