Stanford Report, May 3, 2006

May 11: Health and 'built environment'

The broad range of impacts the man-made—or built—environment can have on health is the topic of a May 11 daylong conference at the Schwab Center.

"The built environment and your health: How buildings, urban form and man-made devices shape health across the lifespan" will bring together experts from diverse fields, including medicine, engineering, psychology, architecture, epidemiology, anthropology, history, urban planning and transportation to share their latest research. They will discuss the effects of urbanization and the rapid development of new technologies in industrialized and developing nations.

The conference is sponsored by the Stanford Prevention Research Center, along with members of the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West.

For more information about the conference program, go to http://prevention.stanford.edu/.