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MISSION

What is the UIA Public Health Group?
The UIA - PHG is one of the working bodies of the UIA, the Union International des Architects or International Union of Architects. It was founded in 1955 and represents members and guests from all continents.

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Mission Statement.

The mission of the UIA-PHG is to advance the role of design in protecting, promoting, and restoring human health across all built environments. PHG advocates for the notion of design for health for every architectural practice and project, recognizing the profound impact of the physical environment on physical, mental, and social well-being. Through international collaborative practice, education, and research, PHG aims to empower architects and allied professionals to create environments that support equitable, resilient, and sustainable public health outcomes for global communities.

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​Activities.

The activities of the UIA-PHG are determined by a lively exchange of information and mutual assistance among its members, the national sections, the national and international organizations and institutes of health. The members are contributing with scientific and professional work, reports, publications and organizational work.

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The backbone of the activities are the International Public Health Seminars (IPHS) which are jointly organized with IHF and WHO, and the International Hospital Congresses, their discussion groups on architecture and engineering taken care of by the UIA-PHG. The subjects of the IPHS have always been of special indication, subjects to be rather treated at seminars or to supplement the themes of congresses.

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The UIA-PHG represents regularly the Union and the Group at various other events e.g. WHO assemblies and conferences, congresses on primary health care, nursing, hospital engineering, interstitial space, energy conservation, fire protection and others. In the recent past, joint conferences, e.g. with the Academy Architecture for Health of AIA, Tesis, Technical Chamber of Greece, IHF, United Architects of Philippines or with the BDA-AKG show the progress in the exchange of information toward the architects in practice.

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This trend towards treating the question of the work in practice is also visible by the increasing collaboration in regional conferences as for example in Havana (Cuba) 1988, Rome (Italy) 1989 and 1993, Jerusalem (Israel) 1990, Dusseldorf (Germany) 1991 and 1997, London (Great Britain) 1992 and Manila (Philippines) 2001.

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