Co-Founder and Director

Mohammad Gharipour, PhD
Mohammad Gharipour is Professor and Director of the Architecture Program at the University of Maryland, USA. He has received grants and awards from various organizations including the Society of Architectural Historians, National Endowment in Humanities, Fulbright-Hays, Foundation for Landscape Studies, Council of Educators of Landscape Architecture, National Institute of Health, American Institute of Architects, and Fulbright (2019). In addition to publishing numerous papers and reviews, he has authored and edited twelve books including Health and Architecture: The History of Spaces of Healing and Care in the Pre-Modern Era (Bloomsbury Press, 2021). Dr. Gharipour is the director and founding editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture and the co-founder of Epidemic Urbanism Initiative.
Program Coordinator

Angela Andersen, PhD
Angela Andersen’s research examines the religious sites of minority Muslim communities, and the relationship between socio-political marginalization and architecture in Islamic contexts. She has worked as a university instructor, museum professional, academic editor, and for not-for-profit societies. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria, Canada. Her work appears in Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes (Brill, 2021); Articles of Faith: Visual Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds (Brill, 2021); the International Journal of Islamic Architecture; Architecture and Culture; and Al-Abhath.
Co-Founder

Caitlin DeClercq, PhD
Caitlin DeClercq co-founded the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative in 2020. She is currently the Assistant Director of Graduate Student Programs and Services at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA. She previously served as a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work on the history and practice of healthy campus design has been included in edited volumes and journals such as Experiencing Architecture in the Nineteenth Century: Buildings and Society in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Planning for Higher Education.
Community
Since March 2020, the Epidemic Urbanism Community has grown to include more than 1,800 scholars, professionals, students, and members of the public from more than 90 countries.
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Scotland

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Hong Kong

Australia

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Nigeria

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Regional Liaisons
In continuation of our efforts to expand and communicate Epidemic Urbanism Initiative activities, we have established a network of regional liaisons in all continents. Regional liaisons represent the EUI in their country, suggest new projects and/or priorities based on local needs, and help us expand our network by involving local communities in relevant conversations. The current list of regional liaisons is below. If you have suggestions for countries not represented in this list, please contact us.
Afghanistan
Naweed Hashemi
Albania
Marsela Plyku Demaj
Algeria
Oussama Kharchi
Argentina
Sylvia Kornecki
Austria
Oliver Sukrow
Bangladesh
Sheikh Serajul Hakim
Belgium
Margo Annemans
Bhutan
Chimi Chimi
Brazil
Luis Guilherme Rivera de Castro
Bulgaria
Georgi Georgiev
Cameroon
Marie Bissong
Canada
Kishwar Habib
Chile
Viviana Urra
China
Ke Song
Costa Rica
Bernadette Esquivel Morales
Croatia
Darka Bilic
Ecuador
Danilo Rubio
Egypt
Abeer El-Shater
England
Andra le Roux-Kemp
Ethiopia
Eshete Sitotaw
France
Anaïs Lewezyk-Janssen
Germany
Cansu Değirmencioğlu
Ghana
Irene Addo
Greece
Evangelia Chrysikou
Hong Kong
Yongming Chen
Hungary
András Vadas
India
Mansee Bal Bhargava
Indonesia
Beta Paramita
Iran
Ehsan Masoud
Iraq
Ula Merie
Israel
Lusi Morhayim
Italy
Antonio Carvalho
Jamaica
Patricia Greene
Japan
Akihito Suzuki
Jordan
Bushra Obeidat
Sarah Alaraj
Kuwait
Mohammed Alajmi
Lebanon
Carla Aramouny
Malaysia
Lim Poh Im
Mexico
Roberto Fabbri
Moldova
Natalia Iachimov
Morocco
Hassan Radoine
Myanmar
Chaw Kalyar
Namibia
Kassian Amesho
Nepal
Tej Karki
Netherlands
Rachel Lee
New Zealand
Susan Heydon
Norway
Johann Sagan
Oman
Ravishankar K. R.
Pakistan
Amna Shahzad
Palestine
Jumana Abusada
Peru
Diana Torres Obregón
The Philippines
Mark Richard Evidente
Poland
Adam Nadolny
Portugal
Edite Alberto
Qatar
Fodil Fadli
Romania
Simona Dragan
Russia
Vladimir Egorov
Rwanda
Manlio Michieletto
Saudi Arabia
Ibrahim Bahreldin
Serbia
Katarina Andjelkovic
Singapore
Johannes Widodo
Slovenia
Miloš Kosec
South Africa
Sandra Felix
Spain
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz
Sudan
Mohamed Fageir
Suad Sulaiman
Sweden
Ivette Arroyo
Switzerland
Nicole de Lalouvière
Trinidad and Tobago
Renelle Sargeant
Turkey
Erdem Erten
Uganda
Anthony Wako
The United Arab Emirates
Iman Ibrahim
The United States of America
Willa Granger
Venezuela
Eduardo Rodríguez-Román
Vietnam
Phùng Đức Nhật
Wales
Elizabeth Walder
Zambia
Paul Makasa
Zimbabwe
Brilliant Mavhima