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The webinar will address design issues of community health, healthcare design, and integration of community input from three perspectives: 1) Macro Community Issues [Janet Baum]: Community design elements that encourage physical activity, enable smart infrastructure, reduce air pollution, and support the natural environment set the stage for positive change. Leaders in public health, architecture, and other fields have renewed appreciation for the role the built environment plays in community health and wellness. 2) Hospital Campus Considerations [Joanna Lombard]: Hospitals affect neighboring communities for good and/or ill. Design in-turn can influence the nature and scale of a hospital campus impact on its neigh-bors. 3) Community Engagement Strategies [Cynthia Beckham]: Careful planning is essential to successful col-lection of community design input. Given the realities of the healthcare industry, thoughtfully balanced execution of community engagement is equally essential to appropriately integrate community input into facility design. This presentation is a part of the ongoing AIA Academy of Architecture for Health webinar series Healthcare Essentials. Learning Objectives (how-to) Participants will be able to: 1. Describe elements of the built environment impacting overall community health. 2. Identify critical elements in hospital campus design that impact the neighboring community for good or ill. 3. Lead a discussion on techniques for soliciting, collecting, evaluating and incorporating public input into the design of local community clinics. 4. Discuss opportunities for community design, healthcare design and public participation in design to im-prove community health with impacts ranging from macro to site-specific. Speakers: Moderator: John Kreidich AIA, LEED AP BD+C, CHC - Manager, Healthcare Services, McCarthy Building Companies Central Division Speaker: Janet S. Baum, AIA - Lecturer, Washington University, Sam Fox School of Design Instructor, Harvard School of Public Health Speaker: Joanna L. Lombard - Professor, University of Miami School of Architecture / School of Medicine – Joint Appointment Speaker: Cynthia Beckham - Executive Director - Facility Design, Sisters of Mercy Health System