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[H+T--Friends] Early Registration ends soon for Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place 2014

by Kate Rube

Thought some of you might be interested in this conference. There are going to be many health and transportation-related sessions, including one featuring collaboration between 3 state DOH’s and state DOTs, one on the role of hospitals, and a session on opportunities for active transportation through the Affordable Care Act. --Kate *Early Registration ends soon for Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place® 2014Pittsburgh, PA | September 8-11, 2014* Registration is now open <http://www.pps.org/pwpb2014> for the largest walking, bicycling, and Placemaking conference in the U.S! There’s no better place to learn, network, and have fun with more than 900 of your peers in the active transportation world. Early registration ends on May 16 th, so act now for the best rate. Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place <http://www.prowalkprobike.org/> features: --More than 100 breakout sessions<http://www.pps.org/pwpb2014/2014/05/07/a-sneak-peek-at-our-breakout-session…>, panel discussions, and Pecha Kucha presentations focused on the latest trends, research, and best practices --Mentoring sessions with experts in the field --Mobile sessions by foot, bike, and kayak to see how active transportation has sparked a renaissance in Pittsburgh --Fun networking events *Register now for Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place 2014! <http://www.pps.org/pwpb2014>* ******************************** Kate Rube Transportation Program Manager Project for Public Spaces <http://www.pps.org/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/PPS_Placemaking> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/projectforpublicspaces> 419 Lafayette Street, Seventh Floor New York, NY 10003 212-620-5660 x326 krube(a)pps.org Click here <http://www.pps.org/making-places-newsletter/> to sign up for the PPS newsletter! ********************************

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[H+T--Friends] Extension of deadline for J Transp Health special issue on geography & spatial aspects of active travel

by Mindell, Jenny

Active Transport: why and where do people (not) walk or cycle? Guest Managing Editor: Seraphim Alvanides (Northumbria University, UK) S.Alvanides(a)Northumbria.ac.uk<mailto:S.Alvanides@Northumbria.ac.uk> Submission deadline: May 25th 2014, this is immutable; manuscripts submitted after 23.59 (UK time) on 25th May 2014 will be considered for general issues of the journal. The increasing emphasis on active forms of transport as a result of health threats and environmental concerns is slowly finding its way into policy initiatives. Yet, the modal shift from motorised to active transport is slower than expected and for some cities and countries it is stagnating. Clearly, more needs to be done to encourage walking and cycling, in recognition of the potential health and environmental benefits, but the evidence base for interventions is still relatively weak. Why and where do people choose to walk or travel and what constraints are facing those who do not? Do people walk and cycle because of the perceived health benefits, because it is seen as sustainable and environmentally friendly or is it simply a necessity for some people, especially in the current economic climate? For this special issue we seek submissions encompassing transport and health research on walking and/or cycling, with an emphasis on geographical and spatial perspectives. Much of the interest on active transport comes from outside of geography, with public health and built environment professionals and researchers exploring the role of non-motorised modes on health outcomes. We invite researchers and professionals from the fields of transport or health to consider a geographical perspective on active transport. We also invite colleagues from the fields of transport / social / health geography and spatial sciences to consider how we can influence public policy and more theoretically the role of geography. Topics of interest include all aspects of active transport with an emphasis on space. Notably, the social and spatial distribution of active forms of transport, the impact of walking and/or cycling on health outcomes, the constraints restricting further modal shift towards non-motorised transport, as well as theoretical considerations on the geography of active transport. All contributions will be peer reviewed according to the usual standards of the journal. Submission: Please submit your manuscript online via http://ees.elsevier.com/jth/default.asp When choosing Manuscript “Article Type” of the submission procedure, click “SI: Walking & Cycling” otherwise your submission will be handled as a regular manuscript. Dr Jennifer Mindell Clinical senior lecturer Health and Social Surveys Research Group Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health UCL 1-19 Torrington Place London WC1E 6BT Tel. 020 7679 1269 (Internal x41269) Survey doctor: 07770-537238 Fax 020 7813 0242 Email: j.mindell(a)ucl.ac.uk<mailto:j.mindell@ucl.ac.uk> Web: IRIS web page<http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal/index?upi=JMIND63> Journal of Transport and Health: www.elsevier.com/locate/jth<http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jth>

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[H+T--Friends] TRB Session Proceedings Now Available Online! Raising Public Health Issues to a Higher Level in the Transportation Sector

by Wier, Megan (DPH)

Dear Friends of the Health and Transportation Subcommittee - We are pleased to announce that the proceedings from the session "Raising Public Health Issues to a Higher Level in the Transportation Sector" from this year's TRB Annual Meeting are now available on our website (http://www.trbhealth.org/) : * Direct Link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14663201/2014_CEO_Session.pdf The session was a panel discussion where we heard the perspective from three senior state transportation officials and a state health commissioner on raising public health issues to a higher level in the transportation sector, moderated by our Subcommittee's own Ed Christopher. Panelists were: Richard Davey: Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, Massachusetts DOT Cheryl Bartlett: Commissioner, Massachusetts State Health Department Michael Lewis: Director, Rhode Island DOT Kathleen Davis: Director, Washington DOT Department of Highways and Local Programs Thank you! Best, Megan *** Please note that I work Tuesday - Friday. Thank you! *** ------------------------------------------------------------- Megan L. Wier, MPH Epidemiologist and Lead - Health, Transportation and Equity Environmental Health Branch, Population Health Division San Francisco Department of Public Health 1390 Market Street, Suite 210 San Francisco, CA 94102 phone: 415-252-3972, fax: 415-252-3964 Megan.Wier(a)sfdph.org<mailto:Megan.Wier@sfdph.org>; www.sfhealthequity.org<http://www.sfhealthequity.org> New Health Care Options under the Affordable Care Act Three easy ways for San Francisco residents to learn more and enroll: 1. Online www.CoveredCA.com 2. Call Covered California (800) 300-1506 3. Visit SF Benefits Net at 1440 Harrison Street. M-F 8am-5pm ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE** This email message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete or otherwise destroy the information.

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Re: [H+T--Friends] NEW! Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse

by Eloisa Raynault

It came to my attention that the Built Env. Clearinghouse link was faulty. This one ought to work: http://www.bephc.gatech.edu/. Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://apha.org/transportation Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ________________________________________ From: h+t--friends-bounces(a)chrispy.net [h+t--friends-bounces(a)chrispy.net] on behalf of h+t--friends-request(a)chrispy.net [h+t--friends-request(a)chrispy.net] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 10:00 AM To: h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net Subject: H+T--Friends Digest, Vol 37, Issue 1 Send H+T--Friends mailing list submissions to h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to h+t--friends-request(a)chrispy.net You can reach the person managing the list at h+t--friends-owner(a)chrispy.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of H+T--Friends digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Archived webinar: Preventing Deadly Distracted Driving (Eloisa Raynault) 2. NEW! Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse (Eloisa Raynault) 3. Call for papers on active transport (Eloisa Raynault) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 16:25:52 +0000 From: Eloisa Raynault <eloisa.raynault(a)apha.org> Subject: [H+T--Friends] Archived webinar: Preventing Deadly Distracted Driving To: "h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net" <h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net> Message-ID: <7FA4274DD2E4CD4EBDECF48340B7709507800E(a)APHA-mail2.apha.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear TRB H+T Subcommittee friends, This may be of interest to some of you: In honor of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, The Honorable Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, and Jay Winsten, Frank Stanton Director of the Center for Health Communication at Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Dean for Health Communication, explored how to keep Americans safer on the road through approaches such as education campaigns, smart technology, and law enactment and enforcement. See the webinar at http://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/preventing-deadly-distracted-driving/ Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://apha.org/transportation Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. [apha_logo] ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 16:37:54 +0000 From: Eloisa Raynault <eloisa.raynault(a)apha.org> Subject: [H+T--Friends] NEW! Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse To: "h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net" <h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net> Message-ID: <7FA4274DD2E4CD4EBDECF48340B7709507805E(a)APHA-mail2.apha.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" This new clearinghouse may also be of interest: The Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse<https://email.apha.org/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> has been in planning and coding for several months and we are now very excited to unveil our new home at www.bephc.gatech.edu<https://email.apha.org/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>. The Built Environment and Pubic Health Clearinghouse is home to training at the university and professional levels and as a source for relevant news at this critical intersection of health and place. Training, news and other resources are available for planning, architecture, transportation engineering and health impact assessment. * University training resources offer a full academic semester or individual modules instruction for planning and public health, architecture and public health and health impact assessment * Professional training resources direct individuals to primers, tools and other online resources to facilitate self directed learning including a multidisciplinary glossary of over 1000 public health and community design terms * Additional resources address current and emerging design and health issues through informative videos, news and topical conversations * Coming soon: an interactive map highlighting institutions, faculty and degree programs The Built Environment and Pubic Health Clearinghouse<https://email.apha.org/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> was supported by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's Office of the National Prevention Strategy<http://www.cdc.gov/policy/nps/> and Healthy Community Design Program<http://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/> and made possible through additional support from the American Public Health Association<http://www.apha.org/programs/cba/CBA/default>, the National Network of Public Health Institutes<http://www.nnphi.org/>, the American Planning Association's Planning and Community Health Research Cen<https://www.planning.org/nationalcenters/health/>ter<https://www.planning.org/nationalcenters/health/>, and the American Public Health Association<http://www.apha.org/>. Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://apha.org/transportation Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. [apha_logo] ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 16:39:12 +0000 From: Eloisa Raynault <eloisa.raynault(a)apha.org> Subject: [H+T--Friends] Call for papers on active transport To: "h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net" <h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net> Message-ID: <7FA4274DD2E4CD4EBDECF48340B7709507806B(a)APHA-mail2.apha.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The Journal of Transport & Health is calling for papers for a forthcoming special issue on 'Active Transport: why & where do people (not) walk or cycle?' Submit by 18 May. Learn more at http://ow.ly/w1mDa. Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://apha.org/transportation Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. [apha_logo] ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)chrispy.net https://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends End of H+T--Friends Digest, Vol 37, Issue 1 *******************************************

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[H+T--Friends] Call for papers on active transport

by Eloisa Raynault

The Journal of Transport & Health is calling for papers for a forthcoming special issue on 'Active Transport: why & where do people (not) walk or cycle?' Submit by 18 May. Learn more at http://ow.ly/w1mDa. Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://apha.org/transportation Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. [apha_logo]

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[H+T--Friends] NEW! Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse

by Eloisa Raynault

This new clearinghouse may also be of interest: The Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse<https://email.apha.org/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> has been in planning and coding for several months and we are now very excited to unveil our new home at www.bephc.gatech.edu<https://email.apha.org/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>. The Built Environment and Pubic Health Clearinghouse is home to training at the university and professional levels and as a source for relevant news at this critical intersection of health and place. Training, news and other resources are available for planning, architecture, transportation engineering and health impact assessment. * University training resources offer a full academic semester or individual modules instruction for planning and public health, architecture and public health and health impact assessment * Professional training resources direct individuals to primers, tools and other online resources to facilitate self directed learning including a multidisciplinary glossary of over 1000 public health and community design terms * Additional resources address current and emerging design and health issues through informative videos, news and topical conversations * Coming soon: an interactive map highlighting institutions, faculty and degree programs The Built Environment and Pubic Health Clearinghouse<https://email.apha.org/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> was supported by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's Office of the National Prevention Strategy<http://www.cdc.gov/policy/nps/> and Healthy Community Design Program<http://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/> and made possible through additional support from the American Public Health Association<http://www.apha.org/programs/cba/CBA/default>, the National Network of Public Health Institutes<http://www.nnphi.org/>, the American Planning Association's Planning and Community Health Research Cen<https://www.planning.org/nationalcenters/health/>ter<https://www.planning.org/nationalcenters/health/>, and the American Public Health Association<http://www.apha.org/>. Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://apha.org/transportation Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. [apha_logo]

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[H+T--Friends] Archived webinar: Preventing Deadly Distracted Driving

by Eloisa Raynault

Dear TRB H+T Subcommittee friends, This may be of interest to some of you: In honor of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, The Honorable Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, and Jay Winsten, Frank Stanton Director of the Center for Health Communication at Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Dean for Health Communication, explored how to keep Americans safer on the road through approaches such as education campaigns, smart technology, and law enactment and enforcement. See the webinar at http://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/preventing-deadly-distracted-driving/ Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://apha.org/transportation Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. [apha_logo]

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[H+T--Friends] April 2014 newsletter: TRB Health and Transportation Subcommittee

by Eloisa Raynault

The latest edition of the Subcommittee newsletter is now online! Read the latest news, stay up to date on events, and explore some new ways to get involved as a friend of the Subcommittee. Please visit our website to read the newsletter in full: http://www.trbhealth.org/newsletter/april-2014-newsletter Here are some highlights: * Help us write the TRB Circular, which will document what a transportation planner needs to know about health, what a public health professional needs to know about transportation and other connected issues. * Coming soon: the report documenting the Health and Transportation Subcommittee session at TRB’s Annual Meeting in January 2014.The session was organized as a panel discussion where we heard the perspective from three senior state transportation officials and a state health commissioner on raising public health issues to a higher level in the transportation sector. * The Subcommittee mid-year meeting this year will be held in Burlington Vermont in conjunction with the Tools of the Trade conference<http://www.trbtoolsofthetrade.org/conference/index.html>. Registration is now open and our meeting will be Wednesday afternoon (Eastern time), July 23, 2014. Do not worry if you cannot make it to Vermont, since we will host the subcommittee meeting virtually! * Help the subcommittee craft a recommendation that TRB establish a Task Force on Urban Arterials and Public Health. * The TRB paper submittal deadline is August 1. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter's development. Eloisa Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://apha.org/transportation Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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[H+T--Friends] What are DOTs doing in terms of Health?

by Ed Christopher

In 2013 the Volpe Center on behalf of FHWA published a report discussing several MPOs that were focusing on Health as part of their MPO responsibilities. Complimenting this report, FHWA just released a follow-up report focused on five state Departments of Transportation and how they are considering health in their transportation planning and activities. The report synthesizes trends, lessons, and opportunities based on the five states and translates them into insights for peer DOTs and partners. The DOTs featured are: The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT), Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). The report can be found on the FHWA Health in Transportation website at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/health_in_transportation/ The direct link to the PDF of the report is http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/health_in_transportation/resources/statewi… -- Ed Christopher

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[H+T--Friends] Two new reports on transportation and health

by Eloisa Raynault

Two new reports may be of interest: Transport for Health: The Global Burden of Disease from Motorized Road Transport: The World Bank has released a report that summarizes ways to quantify the health losses from road deaths and injuries worldwide. http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2014… Achieving Safety, Sustainability and Health Goals in Transport: The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety has released a report that considers efforts in the United Kingdom to align policy and practice across the road safety, sustainable transportation, and public health sectors. http://www.pacts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/Achieving-safety-sustai… Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://apha.org/transportation Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. [apha_logo]

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