A New Healthcare Podcast: Abbie Clary shares her vision for Health for All
June 12, 2026
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Abbie Clary, our executive director of Health for All, recently joined the Creating a New Healthcare podcast to discuss how design can play a more expansive role in shaping healthy lives and communities.
In the episode titled, "Creating Opportunities for Health Through Design with Abbie Clary," host Zeev Neuwirth, MD, covers numerous topics, including her role at CannonDesign, how health is so much more than healthcare and how design can reach far beyond the design of buildings.
"Healthcare design should just not focus on buildings," explains Abbie. "It should be about the patients and the staff that will use a given space. And, at CannonDesign, we want to push design upstream to design better operations, strategies, workflows, healthy systems, healthy communities, the list goes on."
Early in the podcast, Neuwirth acknowledges that in all his years of speaking with people about brighter futures for healthcare, this is the first conversation he'd ever had with an architect.
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Architecture firms often have verticals, but through Health for All we want to knock them down and create convergence across wellness, education, science and more to empower health.
And when you think about healthcare, we need to bust down barriers too. We need to address issues with insurance, equity, access, the list goes on. We can't just do things how we've always done them."Abbie Clary, FAIA, FACHA, LEED AP Executive Director, Health for All
Throughout the rest of the discussion, Abbie dives into more topics and examples that illustrate how design could work better for all people. She has special passion for elevating health experiences for women, disadvantaged communities and others who have been traditionally overlooked. She also has concerns about how AI could amplify some of these inequities.
The full episode is available through Creating a New Healthcare's website, YouTube and all other relevant social media and podcast platforms.
