The Center for Health Design’s Research Coalition's New Investigator Award (NIA) supports high quality research by new investigators around the world in the field of evidence-based healthcare facility design. The award is open to graduate students, and other recent research degree recipients whose contributions reflect their potential to conduct original, empirical research to improve our understanding of the relationships between the physical environment and health-related outcomes & wellness. The goal of the award is to support new researchers whose research is likely to fill critical gaps in the field of evidence-based design.