Health Promoting Hospitals and Healthcare Campuses
with David John Allison, FAIA, FACHA, NCARB
Get the most out of your visit to the Florence Nightingale Museum by attending this special topics talk relating to our temporary exhibition – Healing Spaces: Healthcare Design Past, Present and Future.
This presentation will introduce the forces that drive healthcare today and cover principles, strategies, and best practice examples for designing healthcare facilities and campuses to promote health. This includes the physical, mental, and social health of patients, families, and staff, but also the health of the communities they serve and our global ecosystems.
When: Wednesday 17th June at 3:00pm
This talk is included in all general admission tickets. Tickets can be booked online or at the door.
This talk is part of a on-going series to accompany our temporary exhibition. The programmes have all been made possible by our Gold Sponsor, the American College of Healthcare Architects.
About the Speaker:
David Allison FAIA, FACHA is an Alumni Distinguished Professor and has served as the Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture + Health [A+H] at Clemson University since 1990. His teaching, research and scholarship involve the study of relationships between health, healthcare and the built environment. The A+H program at Clemson is nationally recognized for its focused curriculum and emphasis on design excellence within the discipline of healthcare architecture. It is committed to the integration of innovative design with academic scholarship and research in healthcare environments and healthy community planning and design, and it has won numerous national and international program and student awards for its work under Professor Allison’s direction.
Professor Allison is also a Licensed Architect in South and North Carolina. He is a board certified, founding member and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Architects [ACHA], currently serves as 2026 Past-President on the ACHA Board of Regents, and received its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. He was selected in 2007 as one of “Twenty Making a Difference” nationally by Healthcare Design Magazine and identified again in 2009, 2010 and 2012 by a national poll conducted by the magazine as “one of the most influential people in healthcare design.” Design Intelligence Magazine named him one of the nation’s 30 Most Admired Design Educators in 2013-14 and again in 2019. He was also recently recognized as the Center for Health Design 2019 Changemaker
