Matthew Trowbridge
Education
Residency, Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine (2010)
Fellowship, Injury Prevention & Trauma Research, University of Michigan (2007)
Fellowship, General Pediatrics, Tufts-New England Medical Center (2004)
Residency, General Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine (2003)
M.P.H., Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University (2000)
M.D., Emory University School of Medicine (2000)
B.A., English, Tufts University (1994)
Research Interests
Preventive Medicine – Impact of the built environment (architecture, urban design, and transportation planning) on individual (clinical) and population-level health outcomes.
Medical Education – Use of human-centered design / design thinking to teach complex problem solving, systems-thinking, and inter-disciplinary collaboration within undergraduate medical education.
Current Activities
Adaptive Environments Lab
Co-Director with Professor of Landscape Architecture Bradley Cantrell — The Adaptive Environments Lab is a transdisciplinary research initiative that brings together design, health, environmental science, and computation to develop built environments that can sense, learn, and adapt amid rapid environmental and societal change. Moving beyond predictive design models, the Lab reframes designers as orchestrators working with ecological processes, communities, and computational systems to enable incremental, responsive transformation over time. Through sustained environmental sensing, micro-scale adaptive interventions, and human–computer partnership, the Lab creates prototype workflows that link digital intelligence with physical change, advancing new methods for resilient, health-promoting environments.
University of Virginia Medical Design Program
Co-Director, Lead Instructor – One-year design thinking / human-centered elective for medical students at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Project website: http://uvamedical.design
Green Building & Public Health Innovation Partnership
Principal Investigator – Applied research partnership between the University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVA) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This partnership is focused on applying the market transformation tools and principles used within the green building industry to improve health outcomes by influencing the design, operation, and financing of the built environment at a national and global scale.
Project website: http://www.greenhealthpartnership.org
