Maynard S Clark
BIOGRAPHY
Across the United States, several American communities have made it illegal to smoke anywhere in multi-unit buildings (apartments, condominiums, cooperatives) because of the long-term but often unacknowledged health, medical, and thus financial risks to residents from inhaling secondhand smoke that seeps into nonsmokers' units or is wafted through ventilation systems.
Housing industry background analysis evaluates issues and resources for implementing smoke-free policies in a private, cooperatively-owned residential high-rise building – but in ways so that no one will be hurt in the process, acknowledging a variable array of persons' 'ownership of their habits.' This research is to inform both decision-makers and implementation by identifying successful implementation elsewhere of 100% nonsmoking policies in large multi-unit dwellings and local and other resources supporting these specific changes, and their background in policy development and implementation in Boston. Optimally, implementation will be a ‘happy process’ respecting all long-term real interests; an optimal/optimizing outcome would see all current residents who smoke save money and their health by quitting smoking and everyone becoming happy together.
An election could bring Board membership changes in governance. Research collaborates with current and future Board officers and reports to the “new Board” on management information relevant to the building's specific situation, including (1) resources for ongoing implementation support and (2) cost savings and other income impacts resulting from implementation.
Parties who could affect or be affected by these actions (“stakeholders”) include the building's residents (tenants are: “shareholders” can vote and, at present, and those termed “residents” cannot vote) and their elected Board, the contracted management company and its staff members (who are responsible for implementing policies, as directed by the Board), workplaces of residents where impacts of living conditions are unrecognized but not unfelt, and property insurers and public agencies with interests in building security and safety and tenant health and comfort.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
AFFILIATIONS
- Harvard School of Public Health, Global Health and Population, Department Member
- Crius Energy/Viridian International, Director
- Vegetarian Resource Center, Executive Director
- Boston Vegetarian Society, Founder; past President
- Charlesbank Cooperative Corporation, Shareholder; past board member and officer
- Past - Children's Hospital Boston, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Consultant
- Past - Emmanuel College, Boston, Research Administration, Graduate Student
- Past - Harvard Medical School, Global Health and Social Medicine, Department Member
- Past - Tufts University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department Member
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