Sarah Ruel-Bergeron

Sarah Ruel Bergeron, RA is the Executive Director at ARCHIVE Global (Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments), a non-profit organization implementing projects that combat disease through interventions to the built environment in vulnerable communities worldwide. She is a licensed architect and currently pursuing a Certificate in Global Health Practice from Johns Hopkins University. At ARCHIVE she divides her time between organizational oversight and project management to design, implement and evaluate projects that operate at the intersection of health and the built environment. One of the organization’s key projects focuses on replacing dirt floors with concrete in Bangladesh to prevent diarrheal disease and respiratory and skin infections for families living on $100 / month. Over multiple phases the project has replaced the floors of nearly 300 homes at a cost of about $1 / square foot. ARCHIVE is currently focused on projects to strengthen resource-limited communities whose focus is necessarily COVID-19 prevention. Sarah has extensive experience in affordable housing, healthcare architecture, and construction, with a focus on sustainable design, resiliency, and hazard mitigation in vulnerable environments.