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Seokyung Park, MS, Joins Zahra Ghazanfari, MLA, as 2025 Joseph G. Sprague New Investigator Award Recipients
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The Center for Health Design is proud to announce that Seokyung Park, MS, has joined Zahra Ghazanfari, MLA, ASLA, as a 2025 Joseph G. Sprague New Investigator Award recipient.
The annual New Investigator Awards, selected through a peer-review process conducted by a multi-disciplinary jury convened by The Center for Health Design, recognize and financially support high-quality research by graduate students and recent research degree recipients around the world whose work can fill critical gaps in the field of evidence-based design.
Ms. Park is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University. Her research project, "Enhancing Resident Health in Long-term Care Communities: Bridging Indoor and Outdoor Spaces", aims to investigate how the design of indoor-outdoor transition spaces affects assisted living residents' use of outdoor spaces. The goal is to develop an evidence-based design toolkit to encourage residents' outdoor use.
She joins Ms. Ghazanfari, a PhD student at Clemson University recently selected for her study "Exploring How the Outdoor Environments in Pediatric Behavioral and Mental Health Facilities Can Support Therapeutic and Trauma-Informed Care of Patients", which aims to establish scientifically rigorous methods to evaluate how the outdoor environments of pediatric behavioral and mental health facilities can support treatment efficacy and patient outcomes.
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2023 New Investigator Project Updates
Devi A. Soman, M.Arch, PGDHHM, EDAC, Clemson University: “The Impact of Free-Standing Birth Center Physical Environments on Patient Experience and Maternal Health Outcomes for Racially and Ethnically Diverse Women”
VIEW PROJECT VIDEO
Alessandro Morganti, MD, PhD, Politecnico di Milano: "Autism-Friendly Healthcare Spaces: Applying Evidence-Based Design in Two Pilot Case Studies"
VIEW PROJECT VIDEO
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2026 New Investigator Submission Window Opens Soon
Learn more about the award, eligibility, evaluation and timeline, and view past recipients.
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Each award recipient will receive $15,000 in funding to support their research, made possible through a generous grant from the Joseph G. Sprague Foundation.
Yolanda Keys, Research Associate with The Center who led the New Investigator Award 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.”
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Seokyung Park
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Zahra Ghazanfari
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