Professor Becker is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design. Director of the International Workplace Studies Program (IWSP). His current research focuses on  health and design. Specifically, Professor Becker and his colleagues are examining the relation between the design of nursing units and informal communication, interaction and learning patterns of multi-disciplinary patient care teams and the effects such relationships have on  quality of care.  They are also doing research on emerging models of healthcare delivery.

Professor Becker is also a founding editor of the Journal of Corporate Real Estate and the Journal of Facilities Management, and is on the Advisory Board of the Health Environments Research & Design Journal. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and is Co-Chair of the Center for Health Design’s Research Coalition. He serves on editorial review panels for many journals (e.g., Health Environment Research and Design Journal, J. Environmental Psychology, Environment and Behavior, Facilities).