Joanna Lombard, AIA, LEED AP, is an architect and professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture with a joint appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine. She has undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Tulane University and Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member of the University of Miami’s Built Environment Behavior & Health Research Group, working in the area of neighborhood design and health, and is a co-leader of the university team selected as a charter member of the American Institute of Architects’s Design & Health Research Consortium. She works on projects and is the author and co-author of articles, book chapters, and books that include strategies for healthy communities and focus on the intersection of architecture, landscape, and public space.