Julia Kane Africa leads the ecological infrastructure, biophilic design and restorative landscape areas of the Nature, Health, and Built Environment program at the Center for Health and the Global Environment,Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In this role, she examines the ways in which nature (parks and green spaces) and natural design cues (natural features in the built environment) in urban settings support psychological and physiological health and resilience. Ms Africa completed graduate coursework in environmental health, exposure assessment, and landscape design at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (MDesS). She is a member of the steering committee for the Biophilic Cities Network, the board of the International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine, and the Pennsylvania State University Healthy Parks, Healthy People working group.