The Green Health Partnership
An academic partnership between the UVA School of Medicine and USGBC, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Who We Are:
Founded in 2013, the Green Health Partnership (GHP) is an academic research and development group between the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the U.S. Green Building Council with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. GHP utilizes the green building movement as a platform and blueprint for creating a self-sustaining, scalable market for health promotion within the real estate industry.
What We Do:
The real estate industry is a powerful and underutilized platform for promoting population health and equity. Opportunities for health intervention occur at various points within built environment development processes and come in many shapes and sizes. We believe that individual decisions should be informed by overarching, intentional processes to promote individual, community and societal health.
We’ve worked with our partners at the U.S. Green Building Council and GRESB to develop practice-oriented health promotion processes including the LEED Integrative Process for Health Promotion for use by green building practitioners and the GRESB Health & Well-being Module for use by real estate companies and investors.
Matt Trowbridge, MD MPH
Principal Investigator
Kelly Worden, MPH
Co-Principal Investigator
Alexandra Hopkins, MPH
Manager
Christopher Pyke, PhD
Senior Advisor
