Information About the Public Health Sciences Building
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Fred Hutchinson's Public Health Sciences Building to be named Robert M. Arnold Building photo by Eckert & Eckert |
About the building
- The Public Health Sciences Building, located at 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, opened in April 2004 to house Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Public Health Sciences Division. It is the largest and most recent facility to be built on the Center's 14-acre campus on South Lake Union.
- The 372,000 square-foot Public Health Sciences Building houses the largest of the center's four scientific divisions, with more than 900 affiliated faculty and staff. The building's capacity is 1,000 employees, allowing for the recruitment of more scientists.
- The building houses exercise and nutrition-research facilities, open-concept laboratory space, offices and clinics, as well as 33 conference rooms, a cafeteria and coffee bar.
- The facility unites multiple public-health researchers in shared spaces to create the opportunity for increased collaboration. The building's central location offers close proximity to colleagues in clinical research, basic sciences and human biology.
- Environmentally-conscious features include a rainwater-collection system for grounds irrigation, automatically adjusting lights, and use of natural light from the atrium.
- Built by Turner Construction and designed by the Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership.
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Front view of the Public Health Sciences Building photo by Eckert & Eckert |
About its occupants
- The center's Public Health Sciences researchers focus on the broader factors — including lifestyle, environment and family history — that drive a disease's behavior within entire populations. They strive to identify risks, develop early detection tools and devise prevention strategies for cancer, HIV/AIDS and other diseases.
- The division's Cancer Prevention Research Program is the nation's oldest and largest.
- John Potter, M.D., Ph.D., serves as director of the Public Health Sciences Division.
