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Haripriya Sathyanarayanan & Zahra Ghazanfari Concord, CA – Haripriya Sathyanarayanan, PhD, Associate AIA, EDAC, WELL AP, LEED AP (BD+C), and Zahra Ghazanfari, MLA, ASLA, have been selected as the 2025 Joseph G. Sprague New Investigator Award Recipients. Haripriya Sathyanarayanan is a Senior Researcher - Human Building Interaction, Research & Innovation, at Page Southerland Page, Inc. while Zahra Ghazanfari is a PhD student at Clemson University. Sathyanarayanan’s study: “Evaluating Sensory Design to Support Regulation in Non-Verbal Medically Fragile Children Across Pediatric Care Settings” will introduce a field-based method for evaluating how pediatric care environments influence physiological and behavioral regulation in non-verbal, medically fragile children—a population routinely excluded from design research. Ghazanfari’s study “Exploring How the Outdoor Environments in Pediatric Behavioral and Mental Health Facilities Can Support Therapeutic and Trauma-Informed Care of Patients” aims to establish scientifically rigorous methods to evaluate how the outdoor environments (OE) of Pediatric Behavioral & Mental Health facilities, including layouts, spatial configurations, and design elements, can support treatment efficacy and patient outcomes. As the 2025 award recipients, both Haripriya and Zahra will receive $15,000 in funding to support their research. Yolanda Keys, Research Associate, with The Center who led the New Investigator Award (NIA) jury panel, stated, “The Center for Health Design is privileged to continue to support up and coming researchers through generous funding from the Joseph G. Sprague Foundation. We congratulate the 2025 winners and look forward to working with them.” The Center and the NIA jurors would also like to recognize the following candidate for making it to the final review:
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Congratulations again to Haripriya Sathyanarayanan & Zahra |
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