Joanna Lombard, AIA, LEED AP, is a registered architect (Florida) and Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture with a secondary appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine and serves as co-chair of the Faculty Advisory Council of the Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Tulane University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is a member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture College of Distinguished Professors and a founding member of the UM Built-Environment Behavior & Health Research Group with funded projects in the area of urban design and health, currently studying the impacts of streetscape-greening and park access. She is author and co-author of articles, books, and book chapters and a member of the University of Miami U-LINK teams exploring a Hyperlocal Approach to Climate Adaptation, and Climate Resilience for the Spinal Cord Injury community. Professionally she is a member of the national research and design collective, Practice Landscape. She works on strategies for healthy communities, consulting with healthcare systems to develop new and retrofit existing campuses, and with DPZ CoDesign in the areas of education and healthcare campus planning.
