The LOEB Fellowship

Dr Emi Kiyota is an Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and College of Design and Engineering at NUS and the Director (Program) of the Health District @ Queenstown. She is an environmental gerontologist with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing person-centred care in long-term care facilities and hospitals globally. She contributes to international initiatives focused on improving the built environment for long-term care and aging services.

She is the founder of Ibasho, dedicated to co-create socially integrated, sustainable communities that value their elders. Her current focus is on creating socially integrated and resilient cities where elders are engaged and able to actively participate in an organization that facilitates the co-creation with elders of socially integrated, sustainable communities that value their elders. Dr. Kiyota holds a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her current focus is on creating socially integrated and resilient cities where elders are engaged and able to actively participate in their communities. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters and served on the board of directors of the Global Ageing Network. Dr. Kiyota has been awarded fellowships to investigate this topic, including the Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency Fellowship, and the Atlantic Fellowship for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute at University of California, San Francisco.