Senior Principal
MASS Design Group

David Saladik is a co-founder and Senior Principal, overseeing MASS’s international health portfolio. Having joined MASS in 2008 during the design of the Butaro District Hospital, his work over the last decade has been aimed at leveraging the built environment to improve health outcomes, and to engage and empower communities. He has spearheaded MASS’s expansion into long-term health systems in new geographical regions, establishing offices in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Monrovia, Liberia.

Notable recent projects for which he has served as Principal-in-Charge include the Samajik Health Science Institute & Research Centre, a 520-bed teaching hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Norrsken Kigali House, an incubator for social entrepreneurs in Kigali, Rwanda; and the development of health facility standards with the Ministry of Health of Lagos State in Nigeria.

He has taught design studios at Northeastern University and Roger Williams University on the topic of rethinking primary care health centers to maximize positive social impact and resiliency.