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Institute for Smart & Healthy Cities

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The Institute for Smart & Healthy Cities focuses on envisioning and building cities that are sustainable and resilient by building healthy and livable communities supported by data and technology. It was created to support related research, innovation, and education happening across Jefferson by bringing expert faculty members together to solve complex issues and research questions.


How do cities prepare for climate change and urban migration? What data points are missing in urban health policies? What can cities do to reduce dependence on fossil fuels?


These are the kinds of issues Jefferson researchers are trying to solve. To achieve this, the institute is committed to three missions: to understand the entire city as a system and solve tomorrow’s pressing problems such as the effect of climate change on cities, urbanization, public health, energy, and transportation; directly impact communities and cities by researching the intersection of environmental conditions, housing, workplace, transit, public infrastructure, and health; identifying opportunities to link the institute to connected clinical systems; and partnering with technology incubators to provide students access and support through the co-invention process.

“The Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities focuses on transdisciplinary research, education and innovation across colleges, institutions, and disciplines to advance the development of urban environments into smart and healthy cities. We link academics, organizations from different sectors, students, and community members who are interested in shaping the built-environment to improve human health.”

says Russell McIntire, co-director of the Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities.

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