Upcoming free webinar from the National Academy of Medicine:
Webinar Objectives
- Highlight successful strategies for messaging and communicating health
equity in public policy.
- Provide an example of a successful communications campaign that
effectively utilized evidence-based strategies to engage key stakeholders
to advance health equity in public policy.
- Identify current research gaps around effective messaging and
communication for health equity.
Audience Q&A will give webinar attendees the opportunity to engage with the
webinar speakers.
Webinar speakers include:
- John Dreyzehner, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Health
- Jennifer Messenger Heilbronner, Executive Vice President, Metropolitan
Group
- Ben Schmauss, Government Relations Director for Nevada, American Heart
Association
More information and registration at the link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-messaging-to-advance-health-equity-in-…
TRB Health and Transportation Subcommittee listserve.
Just making sure you have seen this if it missed you.
TRB is sponsoring a Conference on Health and Active Transportation
(CHAT) on December 11-12, 2019 in Washington, DC. This conference will
explore opportunities in quantifying the health effects of
transportation policies, infrastructure, and travel behavior. It will
also raise awareness for the need to integrate health and health equity
into transportation planning across all levels. Abstracts are due June
7, 2019.
http://www.trb.org/conferences/CHAT2019.aspx
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Ed Christopher
Transportation Planning Consultant
708-269-5237
In case you missed this...
AASHTO Publishes Communication Guidebook for Connecting Health and
Transportation
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
(AASHTO) released a report titled “Connecting Transportation and Health:
A Guide to Communication and Collaboration.” The guidebook provides
transportation practitioners at all levels with tools to collaborate
with other entities on health issues. It also outlines the connections
between health issues and transportation, and includes best practices
for interacting with stakeholders, communications techniques, and
assembling relevant organizational and data resources. The guidebook
provides a review of the relevant literature and resources, and advice
from both transportation and health professionals.
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/docs/NCHRP25-25Task105/NCHRP25-2…
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Ed Christopher
Transportation Planning Consultant
708-269-5237