TRBHealth January 2022

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AME80 Committee on Community Resources and Impacts seeks paper reviewers

by Carey McAndrews

Hi, everyone in the AME70 Health and Transportation listserv, The Committee on Community Resources and Impacts (AME80) seeks paper reviewers and the topics overlap with health. More information below. Best, Carey *** Dear former ADD20 members & friends, Since the AME80 Standing Committee on Community Resources and Impacts is new and therefore still in the process of establishing its membership base, we are reaching out to y’all to serve as volunteer paper reviewers! We have been assigned 43 papers, each requiring at least two reviewers and covering the following broad topics: · Travel behavior and transportation disadvantaged groups · Mobility and COVID-19 · Access to services and COVID-19 · Health impacts of transportation · Socioeconomic impacts, communities, and well being If you are available to help with this effort, please respond to the Google Form link by Noon on August 17th: https://forms.gle/ZxQMBxZqhZ7NbbpWA Also update your profile and peruse reviewer requirements here: https://www.editorialmanager.com/trbam/default.aspx Thank you all in advance for your participation in the paper review process as we work towards the 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting. Do let us know if you have any questions! Alec Biehl (ORNL) & Eleni Bardaka (NCSU) AME80 Paper Review Coordinators

1 year, 10 months

Fwd: 2 job openings and a webinar on pathways between transportation and health

by Ed Christopher

This may be of interest to some. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: 2 job openings and a webinar on pathways between transportation and health Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 23:23:51 +0000 From: Haneen Khreis <hrk38(a)medschl.cam.ac.uk> Dear all, I wanted to share with you two job openings at the University of Cambridge in our team, please see below. I would appreciate if you can share with your colleagues and through your channels (@WCTRS <mailto:wctrs@leeds.ac.uk>: Emma, please share this with the WCTRS mailing list). The deadline is *14 February 2022.* Second, I will be giving a webinar on pathways between transportation and health linkages which builds on some of our joint work, this will be on the 4^th of February and the details of this are here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/expert-webinar-series-tickets-230456370207. Please share widely. Many thanks, Hanee. /Please find below details of current vacancies at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge./ *Research Associate - Urban geography and analytics (Fixed Term)*This post is an exciting opportunity for a spatial researcher to play a leading role in the development of statistical and simulation models of the built environment, transport and health for cities around the world. The position will be based in the Unit's multidisciplinary Public Health Modelling team, and will be part of the multidisciplinary European Research Council GLASST project. The GLASST project <https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/studies/glasst/> is led by Prof. Woodcock, with collaborators at TU Munich, ISGlobal (Barcelona), University of Chicago, the University of Oxford, and the MRC BioStatistics Unit. In GLASST we are i) developing methods for comparison of stochastic simulation models, ii) integrating health into transport models (travel demand and land use models), iii) developing city level models of transport for cities in Latin America, India, Africa, and Europe. The post holder will also contribute to the JIBE project (co-led with Prof Billie Giles-Corti), a project that brings together experts from Australia and the UK to link models of health impacts to built environment measures. * Closing date *14 February 2022* * Interviews will likely be held on 9th and 10th March 2022 * Informal enquiries to Professor James Woodcock, jw745(a)medschl.cam.ac.uk * Full details www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/33207/ <https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/33207/> *Research Associate/Senior Research Associate -**Statistician or data scientist in transport and health modelling (Fixed Term)* This appointment is an exciting opportunity for a highly quantitative researcher (data scientist or statistician) in the area of cities and health to play a leading role in the development of statistical and simulation models of the built environment, transport and health for cities around the world. This position will be based in the Unit's multidisciplinary Public Health Modelling team, and will be part of the multidisciplinary European Research Council GLASST project. The GLASST project <https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/studies/glasst/> is led by Prof. Woodcock, with collaborators at TU Munich, ISGlobal (Barcelona), University of Chicago, the University of Oxford, and the MRC BioStatistics Unit. In GLASST we are i) developing methods for comparison of stochastic simulation models, ii) integrating health into transport models (travel demand and land use models), iii) developing city level models of transport for cities in Latin America, India, Africa, and Europe. The post holder will also contribute to the JIBE project (co-led with Prof Billie Giles-Corti), a project that brings together experts from Australia and the UK to link models of health impacts to built environment measures. * Closing date *14 February 2022* * Interviews will likely be held on 9th and 10th March 2022 * Informal enquiries to Professor James Woodcock, jw745(a)medschl.cam.ac.uk * Full details www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/33205/ <https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/33205/>

2 years, 3 months

TRB Annual Meeting - Jan 2022 -- Urban Design 4 Health presentations -- travel, health, costs, COVID-19

by Jim Chapman

[image: trb_2022-banner.png] Hello, On Monday, January 10, 2021, from 1:30 PM- 3:00 PM ET, Dr. Behram Wali <http://urbandesign4health.com/person/behram-wali>, Lead Research Scientist, and Dr. Lawrence Frank <http://urbandesign4health.com/person/lawrence-d-frank>, President from Urban Design 4 Health, will present three poster sessions at the 101st Annual Meeting <https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram> of the National Academies Transportation Research Board (TRB) <https://www.nationalacademies.org/trb/transportation-research-board> in Washington, D.C. Two presentations will be included as part of Poster Session 1150 <https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17257>, “Innovations in Health-Related Transportation Research,” sponsored by the Standing Committee on Transportation and Public Health (AME70 <https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17262#:~:text=and%20P…>) and will focus on advancing knowledge at the intersection of health and transportation from the standpoints of research, practice, or policy. The two presentations by UD4H in this session are: *1) Causal Evaluation of the Health Effects of Light Rail Line: A Longitudinal Analysis of Objectively Assessed Active Travel and Health Care Costs (TRAM-22-01481 <https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17257>)* - This presentation will examine the impact of the multi-year Rails & Health Study <http://urbandesign4health.com/projects/health-economic-effects-of-light-rai…> of a light rail transit (LRT) line intervention in Portland, OR on health care costs after controlling for travel behavior, built-environmental measures, and attitudinal predispositions/residential choices. - For a subgroup of treated individuals, the new LRT line decreased health care costs over time relative to the control group. Limitations and potential avenues for future research will be discussed. *2) A Heterogeneity-based National Public Health Assessment Modeling Framework (TRAM-22-02342 <https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17257>)* - Creating new or retrofitting existing built environments encouraging active travel is challenging. The development of a national health assessment tool is further complicated by the lack of consistent geospatial travel behavior and health data at a national level. - This paper speaks to this major challenge through a USEPA-funded effort to quantify statistical relationships between the built environment and active travel outcomes that are nationally generalizable as part of the development of the National Public Health Assessment Model (N-PHAM) <http://urbandesign4health.com/projects/hia-plug-in-scenario-planning>. - Ultimately, the health impact assessment tool presented herein allows communities to obtain more accurate and granular place-based quantification of the mechanisms through which the built environment can influence active travel. The final UD4H presentation is included as part of Poster Session 1151 <https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17262>, “Expanding Our COVID-19 Knowledge Base,” and will focus on the COVID-19 epidemic's profound impact on our lives, featuring research that aims to improve understanding of these effects on transportation, mobility, and health: *3) Treating Two Pandemics for the Price of One: Chronic and Infectious Disease Impacts of the Built and Natural Environment (TRAM-22-00283 <https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17262>)* - Compact, walkable environments with greenspace support physical activity and reduce the risk for depression and several obesity-related chronic diseases, including diabetes and heart disease. - Recent evidence confirms that these chronic diseases increase the severity of COVID-19 infection and mortality risk. - Negative and significant relationships are observed between built and natural environment features and COVID-19 mortality when accounting for the effect of chronic disease. - This project leveraged a set of nationally consistent built and natural environmental measures from the National Environmental Database (NED) <http://urbandesign4health.com/projects/ned> developed by Urban Design 4 Health and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. - Results presented here suggest that creating walkable environments with greenspace is associated with reduced risk of chronic disease and COVID-19 infection/mortality. *Resources:* *View: 2022 TRB Annual Meeting Overview <https://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/AnnualMeeting.aspx>* *Download: 2022 TRB Annual Meeti <https://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/Program.aspx>**ng Program <https://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/Program.aspx>* Jim Chapman, MSCE | Managing Principal *Urban Design 4 Health *| urbandesign4health.com Rochester | San Diego | Atlanta | Boston | Seattle | Vancouver Office: (585) 775-9020 Email: jchapman(a)ud4h.com Pronouns: he/him/his [image: "Twitter: Urban Design 4 Health"] <https://twitter.com/UD4H_INC> [image: "LinkedIn: Urban Design 4 Health"] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/urban-design-4-health> [image: "Facebook: Urban Design 4 Health"] <https://www.facebook.com/urbandesign4health> [image: "Urban Design 4 Health"] <http://urbandesign4health.com/> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information protected by law. 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