Home as Your Healing Partner

Healthcare isn’t just something that happens in hospitals—it’s happening in our homes, whether we realize it or not. But what if home wasn’t just a backdrop for health, but an active partner in healing?

In this episode, Dr. Andrew Boozary—Founding Executive Director of University Health Network’s Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine—discusses the Dunn House project, a first-of-its-kind initiative where a hospital campus is prescribing permanent housing as part of patient care. Because without a stable home, how can someone truly get better?

 Meanwhile, Dr. Upali Nanda, EVP and Global Sector Director of Innovation at HKS, shares how her team is using VR to immerse designers in the lived experiences of real patients, revealing the unseen barriers to health inside the home.

Together, we’ll explore how housing, healthcare, and design are colliding in ways that could reshape the built environment—and why it’s time for designers across all disciplines to start thinking about home in a whole new way.

HKS Home as Health Hub Idea Lab

Dunn House Social Medicine Project