Marzia A Chowdhury
- PhD Student, Architecture
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Education —
Specialization
Certifications:
Protection of Human Subjects – Social and Behavioral Research
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative Program
Health Information Privacy and Security (HIPS) - Health Privacy (HIPAA) for Researchers
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative Program
GCP: Social and Behavioral Research Best Practices for Clinical Research
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative Program
Research —
My research focuses on how the physical environment of the emergency department responded to pandemics (in an example of the COVID-19 outbreak). The first part of the study will determine the domain of ED physical spaces where adaptations occurred in response to increase surge capacity and infection control strategy. The second part of the study will develop a prototype used during regular operations and respond to a future pandemic. Although there are successful examples of outside structures used to expand EDs capacity. With built-in feature a flexible cohort isolation strategy can be activated during outbreak to manage infected patients by reserving treatment capacity for both at-risk and non-risk patients, by adjusting treatment capacity based on treatment capacity.
Selected Publications —
BOOK CHAPTER
Cai, Hui, and Marzia Chowdhury. "Emergency Department Design in Response to Pandemics: A Systematic Literature Review." Architectural Factors for Infection and Disease Control: 126-165.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
Chowdhury, M., Cai, H., Zilm, F., Imhoff, B., (2022), Evaluation of Cohort Isolation Strategy in Emergency Department in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic. The Environmental Design Research Association, EDRA-53.
POSTER PRESENTATION
Chowdhury, M., & Cai, H., (2022), Emergency Department Design in Response to Pandemics: A Systematic Literature Review. The Environmental Design Research Association, EDRA-53.
Grants & Other Funded Activity —
2022-2023 AIA Arthur N. Tuttle, Jr. Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning and Design
Issuer: The American Institute of Architects’ Academy of Architecture for Health
Project: Emergency Department (ED) Design for pandemic conditions: lessons learned from the covid-19 pandemic (extension)
2022 Joseph G. Sprague New Investigator Award
Issuer: The Center for Health Design
Project: Emergency Department (ED) Design for pandemic conditions: lessons learned from the covid-19 pandemic
Foundation for Health Environments Research (FHER)
Issuer: AIA-AAH
Principal Investigator: Hui Cai
Project: Emergency Department (ED) Design for Pandemic Conditions: Lessons Learned from The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2021
Nana Kirk Travel Scholarship, 2020, EDRA Board, EDRA-51
Graduate Scholarly Presentation Travel Fund, 2022, University of Kansas, Graduate Studies, for presenting in EDRA-53.
Scholarly Travel Fund, 2022, School of Architecture & Design, University of Kansas, Paper and symposium presentation at EDRA-53
Donald Hatch Graduate Research Assistantship
School of Architecture & Design,
University of Kansas