Professor Dr. Andy Dannenberg

Biography

Andy Dannenberg is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington in Seattle. He teaches courses on healthy community design and health impact assessment. Over the past decade, his research and teaching have focused on examining the health aspects of community design, land use, transportation, and urban planning, along with issues related to the built environment. He has a particular interest in using health impact assessment as a tool to inform community planners about the health consequences of their decisions. Prior to his current role, he served as the Team Leader for the Healthy Community Design Initiative at the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He has also held positions as the Director of the CDC’s Division of Applied Public Health Training and as the Preventive Medicine Residency Director. Dannenberg has extensive experience in public health epidemiology, particularly in relation to urban design and transportation planning.

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