I will be out of the office starting 09/21/2011 and will not return until
10/11/2011.
If this is an urgent matter, please contact June Weintraub at
june.weintraub(a)sfdph.org. Otherwise I will respond to your email as soon
as I can when I am back in the office. Thank you!
Greetings TRB Health and Transportation Subcommittee friends,
This educational opportunity may be of interest to you. The following is an opportunity to participate in a free web-based introduction to Road Safety Fundamentals training pilot test. Please follow the link for details.
Road Safety 101 is an online certificate aimed at teaching the fundamentals of road safety. By completing this course, students will be able to understand the elements of successful road safety programs, identify contributing crash factors and how they interact as well as gain a better understanding of road safety data collection and systems.
Road Safety 101 is being pilot tested by the Road Safety Academy and is based on NCHRP 17-40 Model Curriculum for Highway Safety Core Competencies. This pilot offering of Road Safety 101 will be offered at no cost. Space is limited. For information and application go to: http://www.rsa.unc.edu/101.cfm
Best regards,
Eloisa
Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | 800 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://www.apha.org/transportation
Registration is now open for APHA's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC! The theme is Healthy Communities Promote Healthy Minds & Bodies: http://www.apha.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting
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I will be out of the office starting 09/02/2011 and will not return until
09/06/2011.
If this is an urgent matter, please contact June Weintraub at
june.weintraub(a)sfdph.org. Otherwise I will respond to your email as soon
as I am able. Thank you!
Happy Friday, everyone. Note: the call for proposals below may be of interest to you or your networks. Note the ‘built environment and transportation’ session track.
In case the message below is not visible, please visit the website: http://www.weightofthenation.org/
Cheers,
Eloisa
Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | 800 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://www.apha.org/transportation
Registration is now open for APHA's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC! The theme is Healthy Communities Promote Healthy Minds & Bodies: http://www.apha.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting
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From: CDC: Weight of the Nation Planning Committee [mailto:meetings@desainc.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 2:29 PM
To: Eloisa Raynault
Subject: Submit your proposal for Weight of the Nation™ today!
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presents Weight of the Nation™ 2012, its national conference on obesity prevention and control. The theme for the 2012 conference is Moving Forward, Reversing the Trend. Conference organizers will illustrate this theme through presentations—concurrent, plenary, poster or video—that emphasize how communities; early care and education facilities; medical care facilities; workplaces; states, territories, and tribes; and schools can change nutrition and physical activity environments to prevent and control obesity. The conference will convene elected and appointed public policy makers; federal, tribal, state, local, and territorial public health practitioners; media and social marketing experts; and partners and researchers vested in obesity prevention and control.
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Call for Proposals
Persons and organizations engaged in developing, implementing, and evaluating policy system and
environmental strategies to address obesity are invited to submit proposals.
The proposals will be used to select track specific concurrent panelists and poster presentations.
Concurrent sessions will foster discussion among panelists and with the audience on the use of policy, system and environmental approaches (PSE) to promote dietary quality, increase physical activity and prevent obesity. The concurrent session tracks are: agriculture, access, and sustainability; built environment and transportation; early care and education; law and legal authorities; medical care; schools; states and communities; and workplaces. An overview of each track with instructions on proposal submissions is detailed below.
Poster sessions will feature traditional and film technology formats. As only a limited number of proposals will be selected for oral presentation, other highly rated proposals may be invited as posters.
Click here to submit your proposal. <http://precis.preciscentral.com/User/UserLogin.asp?Action=Admin&EventID=854…>
Proposal Submission Instructions
Submit online beginning Monday, August 1, 2011 and no later than 3:00 PM EST, Sunday, October 2, 2011.
* Word Limit - 600 words or less.
* Indicate applicability of the strategy to one or more of the intervention settings: early care and education; medical care; schools; communities; or workplaces.
* Identify the evidence for the strategy: emerging, promising, or best practices.
For a detailed listing of submission/track information please click here <http://www.cvent.com/d/jdqkfc/12K> .
Please check event website at www.weightofthenation.org <http://www.weightofthenation.org/> regularly for agenda updates.
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For those in the DC area, the National Academy of Sciences is hosting a briefing next Thursday from 8:30-10 AM on a new report on HIAs in the US. Register to attend at: http://dels.nas.edu/Upcoming-Event/Public-Briefing-Improving-Health/DELS-BE…
The focus of the event is on the National Research Council report, "Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment.” The report assesses the potential value of conducting health impact assessments of proposed policies, programs, and projects in topics such as transportation, land use, housing, and agriculture.
Public Briefing on Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment
September 8, 2011; 8:30-10 AM (Including light breakfast before the briefing)
Venable Conference Center- The Capital Room
575 7th Street Northwest, Washington D.C.
The National Research Council will release the report "Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment” on September 8, 2011. The public is invited to attend a briefing that morning. Members of the authoring committee will discuss the report, followed by a question-and-answer period. Light breakfast will be available at 8:30 AM and the briefing will begin at 9 AM.
Cheers,
Eloisa
Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | 800 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://www.apha.org/transportation
Registration is now open for APHA's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC! The theme is Healthy Communities Promote Healthy Minds & Bodies: http://www.apha.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting
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