Judging committee

Kate is an executive director, corporate systems and infrastructure at Metro North Hospital and Health Service, providing oversight to an infrastructure portfolio that includes five hospitals and multiple community health services.

Cliff Harvey is the Joint vice president, redevelopment, leading the Building the Future of Care Together initiative. This new role is an important investment and milestone for the community towards a shared vision for a new hospital in Waterloo Region, and the revitalisation of existing infrastructure. Cliff Harvey, MSc(HQ), EDAC, OAA, FRAIC collaboratively leads organisations through the planning, design and implementation of capital infrastructure projects, allowing healthcare organisations to stay current and position themselves for the future. Using design management methods, he builds holistically upon governance, strategy, project management, planning, design and procurement to deliver the right project. Design management supports a culture of innovation, creativity and transformation, and builds a structure for an organisation to successfully deliver on its strategic vision – from discovery to execution to operations – while still supporting strict governance, comprehensive reporting and effective business decisions. Cliff’s professional career includes being Senior architect in the Ontario Government, a Senior hospital executive, and a practising Architect. Cliff searches for excellence through continual learning and professional curiosity, always challenging himself to be better and to stay ahead of the curve. Cliff is an international speaker on health and design, and volunteers his time to boards, committees, professional task groups, and advises on educational programmes.

Beatrice is an industrial designer and ergonomist with particular expertise in designing systems and products aligned to end user requirements. Her early career was in design, ergonomic research and teaching at UMIST and Liverpool University. Her public-sector life has always involved regeneration and economic development schemes at a local and regional level – first as chair of the Rope Walks Partnership in Liverpool, then as chair of Renew NW. Beatrice was a non-executive director of Liverpool Health Authority, then chair of South Liverpool Primary Care Trust. Beatrice is a CQC special advisor specialising in governance and leadership. She is a trustee of the Design Council and an Hon.FRIBA. Her past roles have included chair of a housing association, trustee of Tate Liverpool, and chair of the Architects Registration Board.

I advise public and private organisations on ways of catalysing investment in real estate and infrastructure for healthcare and life science research and innovation. I have over 25 years' experience delivering investment in real estate in the healthcare and life science sector with a capital value exceeding £2bn, most recently being responsible for the development of privately-funded healthcare, teaching and research facilities for King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. I have worked on the development of public infrastructure since 1989 and have substantial experience in the successful structuring and delivery of a diverse range of Public-Private Partnerships in the healthcare, water and transportation sectors in the UK and overseas. I am a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a member of the UNECE Business Advisory Board, and between and 2009 and 2017 I completed two full terms as a Non-Executive Director of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.

John is a leading figure in healthcare design and has been a principal in practice for 35 years. He is actively engaged in reshaping the healthcare environment and improving and re-forming its architecture, combining an expert understanding of health planning with genuine design skills at both a strategic and a detailed level. He set up JCA in 2009 with Hrafnhildur Olafsdottir. The practice has worked in the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Iceland and Australia and is currently working in Switzerland and Palestine. This provides John with an international perspective and a wide ranging knowledge of best practice. He has led government report panels and provided peer review on major projects in the UK and Australia. John co-founded Avanti Architects in 1981, pioneering social architecture and designing a wide range of residential, community and regeneration projects. In 1995 he led the design team for the ACaD Centre and on the strength of this project Avanti developed rapidly as a major healthcare practice under his leadership. After 20 years at Avanti, John joined Anshen Dyer (reformed as Anshen + Allen in 2006) as Healthcare director and in his seven years at the practice A+A won and designed 12 major projects from complex tertiary hospitals for oncology, paediatrics and maternity to innovative community facilities and competition winning mental health units. He is a regular speaker at conferences in the UK and overseas and has written for the major architectural journals in the UK. He was chair of Architects for Health (2009–2014) and is still actively engaged in this organisation.

Jim Chapman is a chartered architect and urban designer, with more than 36 years' experience as a consultant delivering a wide range of projects in many sectors. In 2006, he established an independent consultancy, which focuses on supporting and advising clients on the delivery of high-quality projects.

Jonathan Erskine is the Executive director of the European Health Property Network (www.euhpn.eu) and a researcher at the Centre for Public Policy and Health (CPPH), School for Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, UK. His research interests are in the areas of health service reform, the boundaries between primary and secondary care, and the relationship between the design of health service systems and the built healthcare environment. Jonathan has had a long association with the European Health Property Network and, until recently, was also a non-executive director with NHS Stockton Primary Care Trust, and vice-chair of the Board. He has co-authored chapters in two books, ‘Investing in Hospitals of the Future’, and ‘Capital Investment for Health: case studies from Europe’, produced in collaboration with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. His research at the CPPH, Durham University, has recently focused on the use of Lean in healthcare systems, particularly in relation to the ‘North East Transformation System’ – a region-wide quality improvement programme, which encompasses commissioning and provider NHS organisations. The report on this research was published in December 2014.

Ruth Charity has worked for over 25 years curating and commissioning contemporary art, for the past 15 years focusing on work for public spaces, particularly in the field of arts and health. Her background is in visual arts curation – working for the British Council’s Visual Arts Department (1989–92) touring exhibitions overseas, as a curator at The Photographers’ Gallery, London (1992–97), Curator of the Mead Gallery at Warwick Arts Centre (1997), and Assistant Director of Artpoint, the public art commissioning agency for the South of England (1997–2005). Ruth has always been interested in commissioning new work by artists in response to particular contexts, in supporting artists in taking their work in new directions, and involving and engaging the public in the development of new work. In 2007 she founded artlink, the arts programme for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Past projects include a five-storey wall painting by Michael Craig-Martin for the Children’s Hospital atrium; a £250,000 integrated art programme for a new cancer centre at the Churchill Hospital; an extensive photographic project by Jan von Holleben to provide distraction on routes from children’s wards to theatres; and a Wellcome-funded collaboration by artist Susan Morris and a chronobiologist to create a series of large tapestries reflecting sleep/wakefulness patterns. Additional freelance work has included the curation of a programme of work by photographer Gina Glover for the Oxford Fertility Centre; a series of commissions for new library and student facilities at Oxford Brookes University; and work on a public art strategy for the Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Birmingham (for Willis Newson). Ruth has written on contemporary art in catalogues and journals. In 2005 she edited the publication 'ReViews: Artists and Public Space' (Black Dog Publishing), an extensive review of Artpoint’s projects, focusing on the artist’s experience within public art practice.

Rhonda has evaluated effectiveness and performance for healthcare and hospitals for 40 years as a health planner, health facility planner and health economist. The relationship between investment and patient outcomes, clinical change, sustainability, and innovation is her particular interest. Improving the cost effectiveness of hospital capital programmes relative to patient demand and clinical standards was the focus of her 2020 Ph.D. She has been involved in over 40 hospital and health service development projects and evaluated health investment programs in 18 OECD countries. Rhonda has been invited to speak on her research at 25 international conferences and her research has been published and quoted in several national reviews of health and hospitals. Prior to consulting in the private sector, her experience was in senior management roles in health service evaluation and planning for the Australian Health, Finance, state and territory health departments. Her research and experience challenge outmoded political models for hospital capital investment. Rather she recommends investment in continuous improvement for the patient, the treatment and for health system effectiveness. She has modelled a new method for appropriate capital resourcing for all hospitals that is patient-centred, values-based, supportive of innovation and enables patient access to appropriate care in effective and efficient hospitals. As a founding co-chair of the Australasian Association of Health Planners, Rhonda is developing curriculum for university Masters, Diploma and Certificate courses, standards of practice and writing a textbook on contemporary health planning. Rhonda is also the director at Guidelines and Economists Network International.

Nirit Pilosof, PhD, is an architect and researcher exploring the intersection of healthcare, technology and architecture. She is a Faculty member at the Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University, and an Associate of Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) at the University of Cambridge in the UK. She is also Head of research in healthcare transformation at Sheba Medical Center, a Fellow of Cambridge Digital Innovation (CDI) at the University of Cambridge, and the Executive Member of Israel at the International Union of Architects (UIA) Public Health Group. Dr Pilosof holds a PhD from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, a Post-Professional MArch from McGill University, and an Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC) from the Center for Health Design in the USA. She gained experience in the design process of major medical facilities as a project manager at leading architecture firms in Israel and Canada and won international awards, including the prestigious American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architects for Health Award, the American Hospital Association (AHA) graduate fellowship, the McGill graduate fellowship and the Azrieli Foundation fellowship.

Prof Grant Mills is Professor of healthcare infrastructure delivery and Bartlett faculty lead for health at University College London (UCL). Prof Mills is an academic authority on advanced healthcare infrastructure delivery models, interdisciplinary design and project management. His research at UCL explores how innovative approaches to capital investment, including modular design and data analytics, can future-proof healthcare assets and intrinsically support profound clinical and digital transformation.

An architect and urban planner with over 25 years of experience in healthcare architecture, Lara is a principal and chief operating officer at Perkins&Will’s São Paulo studio. She holds a Master’s in Building Design for Health (London South Bank University) and a post-graduate degree in Project Management (Poli-USP). She spent ten years working in the United Kingdom and taught in the post-graduate programme at Faculdade Albert Einstein. Co-author of the book 'Healthcare Buildings' and certified as a LEED GA by GBC Brasil, she is a frequent speaker at specialised events in the US, Latin America, and Europe. Lara has led multidisciplinary teams in major, internationally recognised projects, including the Albert Einstein Teaching and Research Center, Prevent Senior Morumbi, Albert Einstein Vila Mariana General Hospital, and Sabará Children’s Hospital.

Göran Lindahl PhD is an architect and Professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden, Adjunct Associate Professor of Tampere University of Technology in Tampere, Finland, and visiting professor at Politecnico di Milano. He has 35 years’ experience working across academia and the AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) sector – among this, for example, eight years with the City of Gothenburg facilities planning department. Dr Lindahl is Director of the Centre for Healthcare Architecture (CVA) where he focuses on the planning of hospitals and other healthcare facilities through his understanding of healthcare processes and the strategies of the facility providers. Integrating approaches and transdisciplinary research is a strong aspect of his work. Previous projects include evaluations of usability of hospitals in Sweden and abroad, and educational aspects of clinical and non-clinical environments. He is currently involved with projects concerning design dialogues, maternity wards, health promotion in hospitals, real estate issues related to demographic changes, housing for the elderly and information management in healthcare construction projects. Dr Lindahl is author of 150+ publications, a keen reviewer and engaged in the development of knowledge and evidence relevant to practice.

As partner and global practice director for applied research at HKS, Dr Deborah Wingler collaborates across sectors to develop and implement applied research services that drive innovation and achieve measurable impact across the firm and health practice, globally. She also serves as the executive director for the Center for Advanced Research and Evaluation (CADRE) and holds an appointment as adjunct faculty in the School of Architecture at Clemson University. Deborah’s research focuses on improving the user experience by eliciting insight into users’ affective responses to high-stress healthcare environments. Through her research, she has worked with some of the most forward-thinking Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organisations and manufacturers, to reimagine primary, specialty, acute, and home healthcare. She is a well-known passionate patient and family advocate for healthcare design, researcher, speaker, and published author. She holds a PhD from Clemson University in Healthcare Architecture and earned a M.S.D. in Healthcare Innovation from the Herberger Institute of Design at Arizona State University. Deborah holds several industry and academic awards. She was recently awarded HCD 10 researcher of the year for 2022 by Healthcare Design Magazine.