Marisa A. Zapata, PhD discusses why housing is central to health and essential to ending homelessness. She also examines what it means to demand housing within the health allied fields, and how to best engage in advocacy to end homelessness.
Speaker
Marisa A. Zapata, PhD
Associate Professor of Land Use Planning
Director of the Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative
Portland State University
www.pdx.edu/profile/marisa-za...
As an educator, scholar, and planner, Dr. Zapata is committed to achieving spatially-based social justice by preparing planners to act in the uncertain and inequitable futures we face. She believes that how we use land reflects our social and cultural values.
Dr. Zapata’s research can be divided into three interrelated questions:
1) How can future-oriented actors plan across deeply embedded cultural differences to produce just and sustainable places;
2) How can planners prepare places to act in the face of uncertainty and the multiple futures that may unfold in a given place; and
3) What are the most effective institutional arrangements between governments and civic society to collaborate regionally? The slogan - housing is healthcare - now appears frequently in the health sector.
College of Health
The Future of Health
health.oregonstate.edu​
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