Promoting Public Health through Urban Planning
Jason Corburn, professor at University of California Berkeley, director of the Center for Global Healthy Cities
Jason Corburn is a professor in two normally disparate fields -- the Department of City and Regional Planning and the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. There, he directs the Institute of Urban and Regional Development and the Center for Global Healthy Cities. As his bio states, “His research focuses on the links between environmental health and social justice in cities, notions of expertise in science-based policy making, and the role of local knowledge in addressing environmental and public health problems. Corburn’s research and practice works to build partnerships between urban residents, professional scientists and decision-makers in order to collaboratively generate policy and planning solutions that improve the qualities of cities and the well-being of residents, particularly the poor and people of color."
