Roxana Jafari

Background

About Roxana Jafari

Dr. Roxana Jafari serves as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture and the Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA Endowed Professor in Health Facilities Design at the Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Texas A&M School of Architecture, she served as an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Lawrence Technological University in Michigan, U.S. She has earned her Ph.D. in Planning, Design, and the Built Environment (area of focus: Built Environment and Health) from Clemson University and worked as a Research Assistant at the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), Clemson University. Her research incorporates human-centered design, evidence-based design, and socio-technical systems approaches to improve occupants’ safety and well-being in high-stress, complex healthcare environments, such as operating rooms and intensive care units. To date, she has collaborated with multiple interdisciplinary teams of researchers and clinicians across the U.S. on over $4 million of R01 and R03-funded projects by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), ranging from improving safety in operating room environments to the integration of telemedicine systems in ambulance environments. In addition, she has collaborated with industry sponsors (e.g, View Inc. and Haworth) and deployed innovative combined approaches utilizing virtual reality (VR) technology (digital twins) alongside physical mockups to evaluate the impact of environmental factors (e.g, lighting or room configurations) on users’ preferences and comfort. Dr. Jafari’s interdisciplinary research projects have received national and international media coverage through the SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange and Clemson News in South Carolina, U.S.