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Dear Friends of CIHF,
As we usher in the new semester, we are gearing up for an exciting lineup of CIHF events and updates to share. Our team is enthusiastic about another semester filled with engaging activities!
Preparations are underway for our Spring Roundtable, Future of Design in Mental Health in the Community Context: Tech, Place, and Programs, scheduled for March 22. Details on how you can attend found below.
Additionally, we are thrilled to participate in two design events this spring in collaboration with Cayuga Health and Johns Hopkins University focusing on smarter, kinder, and healthier built-environments.
Thank you to our CIHF community for your unwavering support.
All the best,
CIHF Leadership Team
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CIHF Events & Announcements | |
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Thought Leadership Roundtable
Future of Design in Mental Health in the Community Context: Tech, Place, and Programs
March 22, 2024
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Our Thought Leadership Roundtable will be held on the Cornell Ithaca campus March 22 and will feature distinguished speakers addressing critical aspects of the Future of Design in Mental Health in the Community Context: Tech, Place and Programs. Don't miss this unique opportunity to explore innovative insights and contribute to shaping the future of mental health! There will be three 1-hour sessions co-led by industry leaders and academic faculty focusing on design, programming and technology within the realm of the future of mental health.
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 8 AM - 9 AM breakfast, 9 AM - 2 PM sessions
Current Confirmed Speakers: Erin Peavey, Evangelia Chrysikou, and Serena Dang
RSVP: healthy-futures@cornell.edu
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CIHF Sponsored eCornell Webinar
Trauma Informed Design Interventions that can Serve Environments for Older Adults
March 26, 1-2 PM EDT
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This webinar will be held on the eCornell keynote platform. A registration link with more information about the session will be forthcoming.
Speaker: Christine Foster, CID, NCIDQ, EDAC, Owner/Operator, eight two three Interior Planning/Design LLC
Stay tuned for more speakers!
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
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CIHF Sponsored Mini-grants for Faculty Fellows
Receive up to $5000!
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The Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures requests proposals from Faculty Fellows that advance research on the intersection of health, hospitality, and design. Awarded projects will receive up to $5,000 in funding.
We are particularly interested in research that involves collaborations between the SC Johnson College of Business and the College of Human Ecology.
The goal is to fund research projects likely to lead to external funding.
Email Christine Tanner at ctf43@cornell.edu for more information.
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Reimagining the Mall for Health and Community
April 12-13, 2024
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Cities across the country are turning underused malls into community assets by supplementing retail stores with health and human services that improve quality of life. This can include health centers, schools, workforce training, daycare, elder care, pet care, affordable housing, thrift stores, food hubs, and space for community events, meetings, arts, and entertainment.
Cayuga Health sees the empty storefronts at The Shops at the Ithaca Mall as an exciting opportunity to improve quality of life by creating convenient access to services supporting the health and well-being of local residents.
Please join us for the Reimagining+ Workshop The Mall for Health and Community! Cayuga Health, in collaboration with Cornell’s Institute for Healthy Futures, Brooks School for Public Policy, College of Human Ecology, and Nolan School of Hotel Administration invites you to engage in a fun and interactive planning process!
Location: The Shops at the Ithaca Mall, 40 Catherwood Road, Ithaca, NY 14850
Dates: Friday, April 12 6-8 pm, includes dinner; Saturday, April 13, 8 am - 4 pm, includes breakfast, lunch, and snacks (full participation on both dates is required for this engaged planning process)
Contact healthy-futures@cornell.edu for more information.
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Design Charrette
Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University
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Cornell and Johns Hopkins University students are set to engage in a design charrette May 3-4, 2024 at JHU centered on design safety for older adults. During this event, students will target specific injuries, proposing modifications to objects, or environments aimed at prevention of these injuries. | |
Statler Hotel Partners with Cornell Group, Volunteers, Feeds 400 Tompkins Residents | |
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To keep occupied during the winter break, a period when many Cornell students are away, Eric Szymczak, a chef at the Statler Hotel, aimed to do more than simply discard leftover items.
“I’m more of a cook, not an organizer, so I reached out to [food and beverage management lecturer] Heather Kolakowski, I know she’s involved with Loaves and Fishes and a lot of other charities, and I just said to her ‘can you point me in the right direction?’ then she reached out to Cornell Hunger Relief and some community charities," Czymczak said.
Heather Kolakowski is the Executive Director of CIHF and a senior lecturer at the Nolan School of Hotel Administration. Additionally, Heather serves as President of the Board of Loaves & Fishes.
Read the full article here.
Image from the Ithaca Journal.
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Health, Hospitality, and Design Industry Seminar
Spring 2024
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This seminar series provides a unique opportunity for students to learn from industry leaders with proven success in Health, Hospitality, and Design. Speakers share their views about successful management styles, possible career paths, critical industry-related issues, and qualities conducive to successful business leadership. The speakers are chosen for their knowledge, experience, and proven success in emerging industries that combine the elements of wellness and health. As a student in this course, you will have an unparalleled opportunity to gain insight into the emerging industry directly from senior executives.
Mardelle Shepley and Heather Kolakowski co-lead the course.
Image: Troy Savage, Project Manager, Mazzetti, 2023
2024 Speakers:
Alex Carter, PA-C, MMS
Clinical Advisor, Innovation Hub, Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Vaibhav Garg
Director of Talent & Culture, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
Tammy Thompson, MArch, EdD, RA, RID, CPXP, NCARB, EDAC
President, Institute for Patient-Centered Design, Director of Experience Engagement, Education & Design, ECU Health, Adjunct Faculty, North Carolina A&T State University
Erin Peavey, AIA, WELL AP, LSSYB, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C
Health & Well‑being Design Leader, Community, Vice President, HKS, Inc.
Andrea Möhn
Director, Andrea Möhn Architects BV
Amin Mojtahedi, PhD., Assoc AIA
Design Innovation Manager, HGA Architects
Matt Schuler
Director of Culinary Development, SCOPOS Hospitality
Nancy Griffin
CEO, Glowing Older, Founder, SeniorTrade and #ExposeAgeism
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Serena Dang, Founder and CEO, TeaCup Inc.
Industry Scholar
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Serena Dang '15 is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for building innovative technology products that have the potential to push the frontier of well-being for the world’s aging population. Her current startup is focused on building the future of personalized caregiving for vulnerable populations.
Read more about Serena here.
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Support CIHF on Cornell Giving Day! | |
Your gift to Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures on March 14, will help accomplish our goal of enhancing the health and wellbeing of others through student engagement opportunities and research. | |
Authored by Sabah Mohammed, CIHF Industry Scholar and Associate AIA, LEED® Green Associate™, EDAC, WELL AP, Perkins&Will, co-authored by Mardelle Shepley, Academic Director, CIHF and Professor, Human Centered Design and Troy Savage, CIHF Industry Scholar and Associate Project Manager, Mazzetti | |
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Design charrettes have been utilized in architectural and design practice to generate innovative ideas. The Reimagining Workshop is a version that combines practical and blue-sky thinking to improve healthcare facility design. The workshop engages diverse stakeholders who follow a human-centered design framework. The Reimagining the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit workshop sought to generate ideas for the future, an optimal NICU without specific site or client constraints. Key themes include family-centered care, technology-enabled care, neighborhood, village design, and investing in the care team.
Read the full article here.
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Co-authored by Karl Pillemer, CIHF Faculty Fellow and Hazel E. Reed Professor in the Department of Psychology, Professor of Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine | |
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Caregiver neglect in older persons can vary dramatically in severity, with a differential impact on an older adult’s health. Assessing severity is critical for research and clinical practice but has received focus until recently. To address this gap, we developed a scale to describe the health-related severity of elder neglect using an expert consensus method.
Read more here.
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Co-authored by Marie Elf, CIHF Academic Scholar and Associate Professor at Dalarna University at the Department of Nursing and at Chalmers University of Technology at the Department of Architecture | |
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Housing and the aging population are issues that pose challenges for social, health, and economic policies. Therefore, there is a need for more knowledge on how to design housing and public infrastructure to improve the social engagement and well-being of older adults who age in place. This project aims to provide an overview of the existing literature on design features that support socially sustainable living environments for older adults.
Read the full article here.
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Co-authored by Anthony Ong, CIHF Faculty Fellow and Professor int the Department of Psychology and Director of the Center for Integrative Developmental Science and Human Health Labs | |
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Affective experiences are key components of subjective well-being with important implications for health. However, little is known about heterogeneous longitudinal affect trajectories and their links to survival. This study identified joint trajectory subgroups based on 18-year changes in positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) and examined their differential associations with mortality risk.
Read the full article here.
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CIHF Minor and eCornell Certificate Programs | The Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures and the Department of Human Centered Design (HCD) offers a minor in Healthy Futures open to all undergraduate students. This minor provides a high caliber, transdisciplinary education in the fields of health, hospitality, and design. This innovative transdisciplinary focus has the potential to change industry practices and professional attitudes by breaking down the silos that often undermine creative solutions. This minor may be of particular interest to students enrolled in design, health, wellness, policy, and hospitality related majors, or students interested in applying their education to problem-solving in the population health and wellness space. | |
Faculty authors: Mardelle Shepley, Rohit Verma, Robert Newman, and Nick Frabrizio
This six-course certificate program provides you with in-depth instruction in effectively using evidence-based research to improve a healthcare environment. Core courses cover the critical components of healthcare facilities design planning. Learn excellence in change leadership, stakeholder management, and strategic alignment with organizational goals. Create your strategic plan and execute and assess it by using data to gauge impact. Learn some of the critical skills you need to lead your project to success or dive deeper to interpret technical facility design plans.
Find out more about this certificate HERE.
Faculty authors: Mardelle Shepley, Rohit Verma, Judi Brownell, and Alex Susskind
In this certificate program, you’ll explore best practices for service excellence at senior living facilities. Through examination of case studies and industry regulations, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the current senior living landscape. You'll have the opportunity to utilize the principles of environmental psychology to plan senior living facilities that support health and wellness through informed design. You’ll implement the PPO (product, people, and operational conditions) framework to assess the needs of an organization and apply industry trends to create food service operations that align with the needs of a senior living facility. Throughout the courses, you’ll explore how process thinking can improve your senior living facility by creating a process flow document and formalizing an action plan for decision-making. Finally, you will practice assessing the quality of a senior living organization, identifying areas for improvement through research and applying quality management approaches.
Find out more about this certificate HERE.
Faculty author: Mardelle Shepley
Effectively applying environmental psychology principles and theories to the design of health care settings can powerfully enhance the quality of life for residents. Whether you're working as a designer of a new health care facility, an administrator of an existing facility, or within the healthcare field, you can use the research to inform decisions about design choices for the space. This relatively new science addresses not only how human beings perceive their surroundings, but also the ways in which good design can optimize people's interactions with the physical world.
In this course, you will explore how to access and analyze design research to evaluate the world around you in order to create environments that support health and wellness.
Find out more about this certificate HERE.
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Cornell University Healthy Futures (CUHF) | |
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Are you a student interested in becoming a member of the Cornell University Healthy Futures Chapter?
We’d love to have you join us!
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Have you attended a fascinating virtual conference? Do you know of any webinars coming up that our community would be interested in? Published a paper? Earned a research grant?
If you have news to share - and we hope you do! - please email CIHF at:
healthy-futures@cornell.edu
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Follow CIHF on Social Media! | |
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At CIHF we are dedicated to building and expanding our community.
Social Media is an opportunity to reach audiences that may not come across the organization otherwise.
Follow us on Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Instagram.
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Faculty Fellows, Academic, Industry, and
Visiting Scholars
| CIHF affiliates with Faculty Fellows from various Cornell colleges and departments, Industry Scholars from corporations and nonprofits, and Visiting Scholars and Academic Scholars from other academic institutions. Affiliates participate in collaborative activities, lead research or curriculum projects, provide feedback on strategic priorities, and create industry-focused deliverables that link hospitality, health, and design. | |
Composed of senior-level leaders in industry from around the globe, Advisory Board members are representatives from Corporate Members. This diverse network collaborates with CIHF academics on projects and initiatives with a focus on integrating the fields of hospitality, health management, policy, and design. Advisory Board members participate in bi-annual meetings and conferences, as guest lecturers, speakers, and mentors to students, and as collaborators with Cornell faculty, researchers, and student groups. Membership provides a platform for industry professionals to connect, build lasting relationships, and collaborate across academia and business. | | | | |
