Barbara Huelat

Barbara Huelat AAHID / FASID /EDAC. Barbara J. Huelat is a prominent Human Centric Healthcare Designer, author, and speaker. Ms. Huelat has created healing environments and solved health challenges for more than 300 healthcare organizations and serves as a healing environment consultant to healthcare facilities, product manufacturers, academia, institutions, and the architectural design community. By placing humanity at the core, her pioneering mindset proves that human-centric designs impact healing, improve the human experience, affect health outcomes, and are cost-effective. She has been awarded the 2023 Changemaker Award by The Center for Health Design, the ASID National Luminary Award for Research 2020, eight First-Place ASID Project Design Awards, and is an ASID Fellow. Her quest to support human health has led to extensive research. She has written three books, Healing Environments: What’s the Proof? Healing Environments Design for the Body, Mind, and Spirit, translated into Chinese, are used by students, designers, architects, and health-care providers and are required by AAHID’s exam.  Ms. Huelat’s latest work, Taming the Chaos of Dementia: A Caregiver’s Guide to Interventions that Make a Difference, provides a compassionate and insightful guide to those facing the tumultuous journey of dementia, offering solace, support, and practical strategies to navigate this challenging path. Currently, she shares human-centric designs globally via lecturers at international conferences, universities, and organizations and through research collaborations with government agencies and universities, contributing to white papers and research articles. Always fascinated with the beauty of science and the science of design, she believes human-centric design experiences can mitigate human misery.