Research Fellow
Department of Nutrition
Boston, MA 02115
Dr. Asgarzadeh considers the built environment as an exposure in his health-related research. He focuses on developing healthy environments that will feature less stressful elements and encourage various forms of physical activity including bicycling. He has over 10 years of experience designing and constructing, consulting, and conducting research on the properties of the built environments. In his Ph.D. research in the Department of Architecture at Tokyo University, he studied the intersection of health, Environment and Behavior (relationships between human behavior and the natural and built environment) and Urban Design (process of designing and shaping cities and towns). Dr. Asgarzadeh has extensive training in GIS and has used his skills to study heat islands in Tokyo and planning sites in Iran. Due to his research interests on the impacts of the built environment on health, he partners with individuals in public health and related fields to find ways of building safer and more attractive environments for people to live and have meaningful physical activity.
Health + Planning @ DUSP 