Adele Houghton is an action researcher, social entrepreneur, and member of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows working internationally at the intersection of climate change, public health, and the built envi-ronment. Her work seeks to convert the building sector from its current status as a major contributor to climate change, chronic disease, and inequity into a primary driver of community and planetary health. Adele graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with an AB in Architecture and Urbanism and subsequently received a Master of Architecture from Rice University. Upon graduating from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a Master of Public Health, she was inducted into the Delta Omega Honor Society, Alpha Chapter. She graduated from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree in 2023. Adele began her career as a green building consultant at a commercial architecture firm in Houston, Texas. In 2005, she joined the Green Guide for Health Care, the first best practices toolkit in the U.S. to take a health-centric approach to green building design and operations. She founded Biositu, LLC, in 2008 to expand this approach beyond the health care sector. Biositu, LLC is a strategic consulting company dedicated to leveraging environmental sustainability to enhance community health. Adele is currently co-authoring a book, Architectural Epidemiology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), which proposes a novel method for architectural design: combining neighborhood-scale environmental health data with participatory community engagement to maximize a building’s positive ripple effect on community and planetary health.She is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA); the American Public Health Association; and the Urban Land Institute. Biositu, LLC is a member of the US Green Building Council.Specialties: Green BuildingPublic HealthClimate ChangeTraining