TRB's Standing Committee on Transportation and Public Health (AME70)<https://www.trbhealth.org/> is recruiting ambassadors to share a ready-made PowerPoint (link<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fc2eisx4ak3…>) of key findings from the NCHRP Guidebook for Communications between Transportation and Public Health Communities (Guide). You do not have to be an expert on the Guide to share it. We would appreciate you letting people know it's out there! An upcoming speaking engagement, staff meeting, gathering of a working group or task force that you participate, or even a newsletter blurb in provide excellent opportunities to share the Guide. Please adapt it for your audience and time available. Contact us with questions and we would love to hear your thoughts on the Guide and how you are putting it into practice: AME70(a)trbhealth.org.
AME70 website: https://www.trbhealth.org/
This may be of interest to some.
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*From:* Sector.Partnership <Sector.Partnership(a)cisa.dhs.gov
<mailto:Sector.Partnership@cisa.dhs.gov>>
*Sent:* Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:02 AM
*Subject:* CISA Releases Cybersecurity Perspectives Healthcare and
Public Health (HPH) Response to COVID-19
*Importance:* High
Critical Infrastructure Stakeholders and Partners,
Today, CISA releases CISA Insights: Cybersecurity Perspectives
Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Response
<https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CISA_011221_HPH_Facts…>to
COVID-19<https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CISA_011221_HPH_Facts…>that
provides an overview of vulnerabilities that could be exploited in the
HPH sector and best practices to counter this cybersecurity risk.
CISA conducted an analysis of vulnerability scanning data derived from
HPH entities enrolled in this service from March to November 2020. This
new resource provides observations and findings of vulnerabilities with
the HPH entities internet-facing systems and network configurations.
One common method used by malicious cyber actors is exploiting known
vulnerabilities or network configuration gaps to disable or disrupt
government and business networks. CISA strongly encourages
organizations, specifically HPH entities, to review this new resource
and take appropriate actions that could help reduce vulnerabilities with
internet-facing systems and network configurations. Also, CISA
encourages organizations to adopt vulnerability scanning service.
CISA offers free vulnerability scanning service to federal, state,
local, tribal and territorial governments, as well as public and private
sector critical infrastructure organizations.Organizations that
participate in this service receive weekly reports that identify and
provide trends for their active critical, high, medium and low
vulnerabilities. This service can help executive and IT professional
leadership make data-driven decision to prioritize resources. For more
information visit cisa.gov/cyber-hygiene-services
<https://www.cisa.gov/cyber-hygiene-services>_._
For more information, contact central(a)cisa.gov. <mailto:central@cisa.gov>
Respectfully,
//Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
/Defend Today Secure Tomorrow/
Propose New Topics for the 2021 TCRP Synthesis Program Submissions due March 19, 2021
TRB is seeking potential synthesis study topics for the 2021 TCRP Synthesis Program. Topics may be submitted at any time; however, the deadline for the upcoming submission cycle is March 19, 2021.
In the coming year, TCRP will fund seven (7) new synthesis topics. Anyone may propose topics.
New this year! An outline to guide you in creating your synthesis topic is available here: Synthesis Topic Outline<https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonlinepubs…>
All proposals for topics must be submitted through the TCRP Synthesis Topic Submission Portal: TCRP Synthesis Topic Submission Portal<https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsurvey.al…>
A synthesis study documents current practice and experience for specific public transportation topics. The following factors are considered in the selection process for new topics.
* The objective of the scope of work is to document current practices in public transportation and/or public transit agencies;
* The synthesis documents current practice, not best practice; it is not a research project or a guidebook;
* The topic addresses an area of practice that is widespread and of general interest to public transit and/ or public transportation; and
* The topic should be timely and critical for expediting delivery, improving the quality, or lowering the cost of programs.
For questions, please contact Mariela Garcia-Colberg at mgarciacolberg(a)nas.edu<mailto:mgarciacolberg@nas.edu>
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The Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program has issued its Call for FY 2022 Research Problem Statements - Due by February 26, 2021. They're looking for good ideas!
From: Snell, Joseph [mailto:JSnell@nas.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 12:38 PM
To: TCRP_ANNOUNCE(a)LSW.NAS.EDU
Subject: [TCRP_ANNOUNCE] BTSCRP FY 2022 Call for Research Problem Statements - Due by February 26, 2021
Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program
January 7, 2021
MEMORANDUM
TO: DISTRIBUTION
FROM: Christopher J. Hedges
Director, Cooperative Research Programs
Transportation Research Board
SUBJECT: Potential Research Topics for the Fiscal Year 2022
Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program Due by
February 26, 2021
The purpose of this announcement is to solicit problem statements identifying research needs for the Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP) Fiscal Year 2022 Program. These are not proposals to conduct the research but are used to identify potential research needs and form the basis for selection of the annual BTSCRP research program. The format for problem statements is short and concise. Most are 1-3 pages in length using the enclosed research problem statement outline.
The BTSCRP is a forum for coordinated and collaborative research to address issues integral to the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and traffic safety professionals at all levels of government and the private sector. BTSCRP provides practical, ready-to-implement solutions to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce costs of road traffic crashes associated with unsafe behaviors. BTSCRP is a partnership between GHSA, NHTSA, and the Transportation Research Board (TRB).
The BTSCRP undertakes research for any behavioral issue faced by traffic safety stakeholders. Particular emphasis areas are alcohol-impaired driving, autonomous vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians, child passenger safety, distracted driving, drowsy driving, drug-impaired driving, law enforcement, mature drivers, motorcyclist safety, seat belts, speed and red light cameras, speeding and aggressive driving, teen driver safety, and traffic records. Anyone can write or contribute to preparing a problem statement.
A research problem statement outline is enclosed, along with guidance for writing successful problem statements. The deadline for submitting problems for consideration in the FY 2022 research program is February 26, 2021. Problem statements may be submitted by email to BTSCRP(a)NAS.EDU<mailto:BTSCRP@NAS.EDU> and it is preferred that the problem statement be sent as an attachment to the e-mail message in Microsoft Word format.
The GHSA Executive Board will select the research problem statements for the FY 2022 program in June 2021. For problems they select, requests for proposals will be issued, and contractors will be selected through a competitive process.
Thank you very much for your consideration. Your willingness to participate in the identification of relevant behavioral traffic safety topics is a key element of a successful stakeholder-driven BTSCRP. Should you have any questions or need additional information, please feel free to contact William C. Rogers, Senior Program Officer, BTSCRP, at 202-334-1621 or wrogers(a)nas.edu<mailto:wrogers@nas.edu>.
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Dear friends and colleagues,
Happy New Year and I hope you had a good break. I wanted to share with you a new curriculum we developed at CARTEEH around traffic-related air pollution and human health. See this link for the open access slides which you can use as you please: https://www.carteeh.org/education/carteeh-curriculum-for-transportation-emi… and the attached document for a brief description.
I hope you find this useful. I am also looking for contributors to develop slides on the below topics (or recycle existing slides from your teaching or presentations/ collaborate with me to develop the slide decks). This is an opportunity to contribute to this unique cross-disciplinary effort and we will be disseminating the course widely in addition to teaching it at our institutes and making it open access for anyone to use. Your contribution would be highly appreciated, and we are able to pay American authors an honorarium for their effort.
I look forward to working with you if any of these topics interest you or fall within your expertise.
Thanks, and best wishes,
Haneen Khreis (h-khreis(a)tti.tamu.edu).
* Vehicle emission standards and underlying evidence base
* History of key laws and regulations and quantifiable impacts
* Environmental justice
* Photochemical modeling methods and data sources
* Personal monitoring in exposure assessment and the contribution of traffic
* Source apportionment and micro-environmental exposures
* Observational analytical epidemiological studies
* Experimental studies
* Transferability of toxicological evidence and human relevance
* Biomarkers including OMICS (genomics, proteomics, or metabolomics) of health effects associated with traffic-related air pollution
* Sensitive subpopulations (children, the elderly, the ill, and lower socioeconomic classes) and differential health effects in sensitive subpopulations
* Differential burden of disease of traffic-related air pollution in sensitive sub-populations
* Policies to mitigate traffic-related emissions
* Policies to mitigate traffic-related air pollution
* Policies to mitigate traffic-related air pollution exposures
* Overlap with sustainable transportation and built environment policies
* Barriers and facilitators
* Co-benefits
* Market solutions
Hello and Happy 2021
For those who are attending the TRB Annual Meetings (AM) below is the
list of activities for your consideration. The code numbers are the
sponsoring committees. AME70 is code for our Health committee. With the
AM being virtual this year, it is bitter sweet. Although attendance at
sessions and workshops requires a paid registration, committee meetings
and the exhibit area do not. Also, attached is the AME70 meeting agenda.
Attendance at all TRB Committee and Subcommittee meetings is “Free” of
any registration fee, but you do have to go through the formal
conference registration process. To do so, you must register at
no-charge using the “Exhibits and Committee Meetings Only” option. After
you register you will receive an email confirmation. Once your
registration is confirmed you will be able to browse the entire program
and ‘Add’ any committee or subcommittee meetings to your personal
program. Two days before the meeting you will be sent your link to the
meeting. To register visit,
http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/Registration.aspx
Activities
Wednesday, January 13, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM ET
Transportation and Public Health Committee, AME70 Meeting
Thursday, January 21, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM ET
Workshop 1001 - Improving Pedestrian Crossing Safety along Major
Arterials: Issues and Innovations
ACH10, ACP10, AME70
Thursday, January 21, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM ET
Workshop 1010 - Identifying Systemic Transportation-related Health
Effects of COVID-19 to inform Interdisciplinary Research
AME70
Monday, January 25, 4:00 PM-5:30 PM ET
Lectern Session 1123 - Arrested Mobility: Exploring the Impacts of
Over-policing (i.e., policy, police and polity) BIPOC Mobility in the US
ACH10, ACH10(1), ACH10(2), ACH20, ACS10, ACS30, AME20(1), AME70
Wednesday, January 27, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM ET
Poster Session 1276 - Understanding transportation and health linkages
through examination of policy, infrastructure, and behavior
AME70
Wednesday, January 27, 4:00 PM-5:30 PM ET
Lectern Session 1323 - Transportation Adaptation: Response and
Reflection in Times of Change
AME80, AME10, AME70, AMR20
Thursday, January 28, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM ET
Lectern Session 1346 - Transportation as a Social Determinant of Health
AME70
Friday, January 29, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM ET
Poster Session 1462 - Mobility and COVID: Urban form, travel patterns,
and health consequences
AME70
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Ed Christopher
Transportation Planning Consultant
708-269-5237
Seeking Ambassadors for Transportation and Public Health (share a ready-made PPT with colleagues)
Dear Transportation and Public Health Community,
The TRB Standing Committee on Transportation and Public Health (AME70) is recruiting ambassadors to share a ready-made PowerPoint (attached) of key findings from the NCHRP Guidebook for Communications between Transportation and Public Health Communities<https://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4101.> (Guide).
The Guide, one of our favorite publications, provides invaluable information regarding cross-sector collaboration for the advancement of transportation and health efforts.
We invite our network of transportation and public health professionals to promote the Guide and spur creative thinking and new partnerships. You do not have to be an expert on the Guide to share it. We would appreciate you letting people know it’s out there!
Next month’s TRB Annual Meeting provides an excellent opportunity to share the Guide at lectern sessions, committee meetings, and in committee handouts.
The attached PowerPoint slides and suggested talking points is your ready-made script for sharing this message. Please adapt it for your audience and time available. Feel free to include all or part of the slides in a committee handout for distribution or for download.
Our goal is that by using a clear and concise set of slides, information in this important Guide (published in 2019) can be disseminated to any audience of transportation and/or health professionals with relatively little effort from the presenter. We appreciate your help!
Please email Faith Hall at faithcole(a)gmail.com<mailto:faithcole@gmail.com> with questions and if you share the Guide (for tracking purposes). We encourage you to share this email and the PPT with your networks. Together, we can advance the important effort of improving coordination between the fields of transportation and public health.
Thank you,
Faith Hall
Special Team for Guide Dissemination,
TRB Standing Committee on Transportation and Public Health (AME70<https://www.trbhealth.org/>)
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Faith Hall
Member, AME70 - TRB Standing Committee for Transportation and Public Health - https://www.trbhealth.org<https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trbhe…>
Office: 202-366-9055 (forwarding to my cell phone)
Mobile: 202-875-2971
Faith.Hall(a)dot.gov<mailto:Faith.Hall@dot.gov>
‘Everyone wins with public transportation,’ a video from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<https://youtu.be/X1e2nz1DmyE>.
A Guidebook for Communications between Transportation and Public Health Communities - https://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4101<https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>
Dear colleagues and friends,
Please see the announcement below on our new dates for the 2nd CARTEEH symposium on Transportation, Air Quality and Health which will now be held entirely online. Please help us spread the word by sharing with your networks.
With many thanks and my best wishes for the holidays and the new year.
Haneen.
On behalf of symposium co-chairs, Joe Zietsman and Matt Barth, we are pleased to announce the 2nd Transportation, Air Quality, and Health Symposium <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/carteeh.us19.list-manage.com/track/click…> will be held entirely online on our new dates: May 18-20, 2021. Registration rates for the virtual symposium will be reduced. Please visit the symposium website<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/carteeh.us19.list-manage.com/track/click…> for more information.
In the following weeks, the symposium planning committee will reach out to speakers with accepted abstracts with more information regarding updated program times and presentation slots.
Thank you for your continued patience, flexibility, and understanding as we plan to safely host the symposium. The health and well-being of our participants is of utmost importance to CARTEEH, and we hope you are staying safe and healthy during these uncertain times. If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Kristen Sanchez at k-sanchez(a)tti.tamu.edu<mailto:k-sanchez@tti.tamu.edu> or Haneen Khreis at h-khreis(a)tti.tamu.edu<mailto:h-khreis@tti.tamu.edu>.
This grant opportunity may be of interest some. apologies for not
finding it sooner
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
are partnering to award a maximum of $50,000 to up to 50 community
multi-sector partnerships and/or coalitions who have successfully
implemented strategies in the five SDoH domains. Applications are due by
December 8th.
https://www.naccho.org/uploads/downloadable-resources/SDOH-RFP_-FINAL1.pdfhttps://www.naccho.org/programs/
Ed Christopher
Transportation Planning Consultant
708-269-5237
