How Can a Community Grow in Ways that Enhance Health?: A COVID-19 Dialogue with Spokane Communities

This discussion will how the use of Spokane’s built environment (including housing, parks, roads, etc.) has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and how that can inform the city’s growth in order to build for healthy communities. The conversation will help Spokane’s communities and decision-makers address the challenges – and the opportunities – in the city’s growth. In a facilitated dialogue, panelists will explore how growth and the built environment intersect with community health as well as how actions in the public and private sector can impact these changes.

Panelists will include:

• Kiantha Duncan, NAACP Spokane
• Alisha Benson, Greater Spokane Incorporated
• Robert Stevens, Community Health Worker
• Patrick Jones, Eastern Washington University
• Margo Hill, Eastern Washington University
• Pablo Monsivais, Washington State University
• Glen Duncan & John Roll, Washington State University (Moderators)

This event is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2122687