We are thrilled to share that Hannah Myers has been awarded the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding research and academic achievements.
Hannah shares insight into her research and its impact:
“The built environment—places we live, work, learn, and play—is not health-neutral. Substantial evidence supports this claim, yet most built environment and health research has focused on physical and mental health, neglecting the aspect of health that pertains to social relationships: social health. Meanwhile, our Nation’s social health is in crisis. My dissertation contributes three original studies that address this built environment/social health evidentiary gap. Focusing on residential settings across two socioecological levels, my work aims to identify strategies to fight our ongoing epidemic of isolation and loneliness using the design of our everyday environments.”