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[H+T--Friends] APHA 2014 Annual Meeting in New Orleans: call for abstracts now open

by Eloisa Raynault

The American Public Health Association’s Call for Abstracts for the 142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition is now open! The 2014 Annual Meeting will take place in New Orleans from Nov. 15-19. The theme of the meeting is Healthography: How Where you Live Affects Your Health and Well-being. Abstracts can be submitted online between now and the second week of February. Visit https://apha.confex.com/apha/142am/oasys.epl<https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapha.confex.com%2Fapha%2F142…>.

12 years, 1 month

[H+T--Friends] FYI: Active Living Coordinator Position Posted in North Carolina

by Ray, Renee

FYI. RENEE AUTUMN RAY, AICP | Senior Associate | 404.908.2286 NEW MOBILE NUMBER (m) | renee.ray(a)icfi.com<mailto:renee.ray@icfi.com> | icfi.com<http://www.icfi.com/> ICF INTERNATIONAL | 3 Corporate Square NE, Suite 370, Atlanta, GA 30329 | 404.592.2241 (o) Connect with us on social media<http://www.icfi.com/social>. From: Blackburn, Lauren A [mailto:lablackburn2@ncdot.gov] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 9:41 AM To: NCPlan mailing list Subject: [ncplan] FW: Active Living Coordinator Position Posted The North Carolina Community Transformation Grant Project is searching for an Active Living Coordinator. The position will provide technical assistance, create resources and build partnerships to increase physical activity through built environment initiatives. Emphasis is placed on efforts that support comprehensive planning and shared use of physical activity facilities. Duties include * Develop and maintain statewide partnerships supporting comprehensive planning and shared use policies; identify key contacts that can be introduced to funded communities as technical resources. * Inform state and local staff of technical advances, effective interventions and opportunities available for building capacity and expanding state and community-based physical activity programs in the area of comprehensive planning and shared use policies. * Serve as a liaison between the Community Transformation Grant Project and the Community and Clinical Connections for Health and Prevention Branch. * Provide technical assistance to communities on developing and implementing comprehensive plans and shared use policies. * Work with the CTG Project Consultants to determine technical assistance and training needs of funded communities. * Facilitate the development of state level health practices to increase access to and opportunities for the physical activity through changes to the built environment by focusing on comprehensive plans and shared use policies. Experience or knowledge in the following areas is preferred: * built environment and physical activity; * joint use agreements, * comprehensive planning, * health impact assessments, * city and regional planning, * transportation and land use; and * parks and recreation Candidates must have the ability to: * develop and execute project plans with a variety of partners * interpret and understand information concerning physical activity, public health and active living * communicate effectively orally and in writing with leadership from internal and external partners * analyze data and information concerning program operations in order to evaluate effectiveness * work with diverse groups Minimum Education and Experience: Master's degree in Public Health, social work, psychology or related field and one year of experience in a related human services program; or graduation from a four year college or university and three years of administrative, consultative, or counseling experience in a related human services program. This full-time position will be hired through Temporary Solutions and housed at the NC Division of Public Health. Applications will be accepted until January 31, 2014. Interested candidates should contact Sharon Nelson, Sharon.boss.nelson(a)dhhs.nc.gov<mailto:Sharon.boss.nelson@dhhs.nc.gov> or 919-707-5207. ________________________________ Email correspondence to and from this sender is subject to the N.C. Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. You currently are subscribed to ncplan . To unsubscribe send email to listserv(a)unc.edu<mailto:listserv@unc.edu> with the subject line "unsubscribe ncplan "

12 years, 2 months

[H+T--Friends] Global Road Safety Subcommittee events at TRB

by Phyllis ORRICK

This may conflict with some Health and Transportation events, but I thought some might want to know about these as well. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TRB Global Road Safety Subcommittee < trb-globalroadsafety(a)lists.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:28 AM Subject: [ANB10(8)] TRB 2014 Activities To: trb-globalroadsafety <trb-globalroadsafety(a)lists.berkeley.edu> Dear Friends of the TRB Global Road Safety Subcommittee ANB10(8), Please find attached the agenda for the THURSDAY morning Global Road Safety Workshop about Pedestrian Safety (Session 869 January 16, 2014, 8:00AM-12:00PM, Marriott, Maryland B). Also, please join us on WEDNESDAY morning for the Global Road Safety Subcommittee Meeting (January 15, 2014 10:15AM-12:00PM). We will have an interesting and diverse set of briefings and time for you to give your update about global road safety activities in your country, or countries, in which you work. We also want to draw your attention to Session 535 - International Benchmarking on Road Safety (TUESDAY, January 14, 2014 10:15AM - 12:00PM Marriott, Maryland B, Fred C. M. Wegman, SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research, Netherlands, presiding). We hope to see you next week and look forward to having your invaluable input! Sincerely, Bella Dinh-Zarr, PhD, MPH (Chair) Kim Kolody (Co-Chair) Lori Mooren (Co-Chair) Offer Grembek, PhD (Research Coordinator) TRB Global Road Safety Subcommittee ANB 10(8) -- Phyllis Orrick Communications Director Safe Transportation Research and Education Center<http://www.safetrec.berkeley.edu/> (SafeTREC) University of California Transportation Center <http://www.uctc.net/> (UCTC) Institute for Urban and Regional Development <http://www.iurd.berkeley.edu/> (IURD) California Active Transportation Safety Information Pages<http://catsip.berkeley.edu/> (CATSIP) 2614 Dwight Way UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720-7374 510-643-1779 @transsafe <https://twitter.com/#%21/transsafe> @californiaUTC <https://twitter.com/#%21/CaliforniaUTC> @IURDBerkeley <https://twitter.com/#%21/IURDBerkeley> @trbhealth <https://twitter.com/#%21/trbhealth> Skype: pmorrick

12 years, 2 months

[H+T--Friends] December 2013 newsletter

by Phyllis ORRICK

Hi All, At the risk of sounding redundant, I wanted to make sure everyone knew that our new newsletter was posted on the subcommittee website. As Ed Christopher noted, it has just about everything to do with the transportation-health intersection happening at TRB 2014 Annual Meeting. Here's a link to the newsletter. http://www.trbhealth.org/newsletter/december-2013 Thanks as always to everyone who helped put it together. Be sure to add to the discussions via the subcommittee's listserv and social media outlets for those of us who can't attend the annual meeting in person. Cheers, Phyllis -- Phyllis Orrick Communications Director Safe Transportation Research and Education Center<http://www.safetrec.berkeley.edu/> (SafeTREC) University of California Transportation Center <http://www.uctc.net/> (UCTC) Institute for Urban and Regional Development <http://www.iurd.berkeley.edu/> (IURD) California Active Transportation Safety Information Pages<http://catsip.berkeley.edu/> (CATSIP) 2614 Dwight Way UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720-7374 510-643-1779 @transsafe <https://twitter.com/#%21/transsafe> @californiaUTC <https://twitter.com/#%21/CaliforniaUTC> @IURDBerkeley <https://twitter.com/#%21/IURDBerkeley> @trbhealth <https://twitter.com/#%21/trbhealth> Skype: pmorrick

12 years, 2 months

[H+T--Friends] Fwd: [ANB10(8)] TRB 2014 Announcements

by Phyllis ORRICK

Hi everyone, This might be of interest to some of you. Phyllis ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TRB Global Road Safety Subcommittee < trb-globalroadsafety(a)lists.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:54 AM Subject: [ANB10(8)] TRB 2014 Announcements To: trb-globalroadsafety <trb-globalroadsafety(a)lists.berkeley.edu> Dear Friends of the TRB Global Road Safety Subcommittee ANB10(8), We hope you are well and hope to see you in Washington, DC, in January 2014. If you haven't already done so, you can register for TRB at: http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting2014/AM2014Registration.aspx TRB ANNUAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS: Please mark your calendar for our Wednesday Subcommittee meeting and our Thursday, Global Road Safety free workshop (it is no longer Sunday as in past years). Please plan to stay through Thursday because the Workshop on Pedestrian Safety Across the Five Pillars of the Decade of Action will be an interesting, useful one. The information for the Subcommittee meeting and the workshop are below: 1) Global Road Safety Subcommittee Meeting - Wednesday, January 15, 2014 Event Type: Published Meeting - Committee (M) Event Title: Global Road Safety Subcommittee, ANB10(8) Event Date: 01/15/2014 10:15 AM-12:00 PM Event Location: Marriott, Park Tower Suite 8212 Sponsored By: Transportation Safety Management (ANB10) 2) Global Road Safety Workshop (Pedestrian Safety) - Thursday, January 16, 2014 Session 869 Thursday, January 16, 2014, 8:00am-12:00pm, Marriott, Maryland B Pedestrian Safety Across the Five Pillars of the United Nations Decade of Action Kim Kolody Silverman, CH2M Hill, presiding Sponsored by Committee on Transportation Safety Management (ANB10); Subcommittee on Global Road Safety (ANB10(8)) Pedestrians account for 22% of the 1.24 million traffic deaths a year, with the burden falling most heavily on low- and middle-income countries. This workshop is designed for practitioners and researchers to provide an understanding of challenges and solutions for the pedestrian safety problem. Experts present the latest research on pedestrian safety across the Five Pillars of the UN Decade of Action: safety management, safer roads, safer vehicles, safer road users, and postcrash response. Overview and WHO Report (P14-6975) Ann M. Dellinger/David Sleet, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pillar 1 - Safety Management (P14-6976) Offer Grembek, University of California, Berkeley Pillar 2 - Safer Roads (P14-6977) Charles V. Zegeer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Pillar 3 - Safer Vehicles (P14-6978) David Ward, Global NCAP Pillar 4 - Safer Road Users (P14-6979) David Shinar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Pillar 5 - Post Crash (P14-6980) Dia Gainor, NASEMSO ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1) Please visit our subcommittee website, which includes photos from past subcommittee activities and additional information: https://sites.google.com/site/trbsubcommitteeanb108/ 2) Below is a link to a new report by Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle that might be of interest to the friends of ANB10(8): Road safety in 170 low-, middle-, and high-income countries http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/100256/102973.pdf We thank you for your interest in global road safety and look forward to seeing you in January. Sincerely, Bella Dinh-Zarr, PhD, MPH (Chair) Kim Kolody (Co-Chair) Lori Mooren (Co-Chair) Offer Grembek, PhD (Research Coordinator) TRB Global Road Safety Subcommittee ANB 10(8) -- Phyllis Orrick Communications Director Safe Transportation Research and Education Center<http://www.safetrec.berkeley.edu/> (SafeTREC)

12 years, 2 months

[H+T--Friends] Health Transportation Resource by WHO

by Eloisa Raynault

Season's greetings everyone! This new WHO resource may be of interest to you. Eloisa ________________________________ The World Health Organization just released a new health benefits report entitled Health in the Green Economy - Transport Sector. The cost is $36. Visit http://www.whopress.us/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=313310 to learn more. "This report makes an important contribution to the transport, planning, health and climate change literature by sign-posting the need to assess co-benefits and co-costs of transport and land use planning interventions. With reference to the IPPC work, many of the implications of a technology-linked transport sector emissions mitigation agenda for public health - considered very broadly - were identified." - Ryan Falconer, Agitator for better transport outcomes , ARUP Cycling, walking and rapid transit systems are associated with a wide range of health benefits that need to be reflected more systematically in transport and development policies. Health benefits may include: reduced risk of heart disease, some cancers, type 2 diabetes, and some obesity-related risks from more physical activity; reduced health risks from urban air pollution; reduced traffic injury risks and less noise stress. Rapid transit, walking and cycling systems also improve access to vital jobs, services and opportunities and ease the mobility of vulnerable groups, such as children, people with disabilities, and older adults, enhancing health equity. This report, part of the Health in the Green Economy series, considers evidence regarding health co-benefits, and risks, of climate change mitigation strategies for transport, as reviewed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

12 years, 2 months

[H+T--Friends] New resources available: Community Speed Reduction

by Megan Wier

Please see below re: new resources of potential interest to our list - Best, Megan > Health Resources in Action is pleased to be releasing a new series of Community Speed Reduction resources. We hope that you find the resources to be useful and informative. To access them, please visit - http://hria.org/resources/reports/community-speed-reduction/2013-resources-… > > Included in the series are the following documents: > > Public Health Impact: Community Speed Reduction (http://hria.org/uploads/catalogerfiles/2013-speed-reduction-resources/Impac…) > Speed Reduction Fact Sheet: Opportunities to Improve Current Practice (http://hria.org/uploads/catalogerfiles/2013-speed-reduction-resources/Speed…) > Community Speed Reduction and Public Health: A Technical Report (http://hria.org/uploads/catalogerfiles/2013-speed-reduction-resources/TechR…) > Case Studies: > > Chicago, Illinois: Child Safety Zones (http://hria.org/uploads/catalogerfiles/2013-speed-reduction-resources/Chica…) > Columbia, Missouri: Lowering The Posted Speed Limit On Residential Streets (http://hria.org/uploads/catalogerfiles/2013-speed-reduction-resources/Colum…) > New York City: Neighborhood Slow Zones (http://hria.org/uploads/catalogerfiles/2013-speed-reduction-resources/NYCCa…) > Portland, Oregon: Neighborhood Greenway Initiative (http://hria.org/uploads/catalogerfiles/2013-speed-reduction-resources/Portl…) > Seattle, Washington: A Multi-Faceted Approach To Speed Reduction (http://hria.org/uploads/catalogerfiles/2013-speed-reduction-resources/Seatt…) > Washington, DC: Automated Speed Enforcement (http://hria.org/uploads/catalogerfiles/2013-speed-reduction-resources/DCCas…) > The documents were written by a team of individuals from Health Resources in Action (www.hria.org), a Boston-based public health institute, and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (www.mapc.org), a Boston-based regional planning organization, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Network of Public Health Institutes.

12 years, 2 months

[H+T--Friends] FYI: Urban Land Institute report: Intersections -- Health and the Built Environment

by Ray, Renee

I've just come across a report ULI released last month and thought some of you might be interested. http://www.uli.org/report/intersections-health-and-the-built-environment/ >From the ULI press release<http://www.uli.org/press-release/10-principles-for-building-healthy-places-…>: The reports mark the start of a two-year body of work ULI is devoting to its Building Healthy Places Initiative, which will examine how urban design and development can contribute to living environments that are conducive to active lifestyles, social interaction, and prosperity. Through the initiative, ULI is leveraging the power of its global networks to shape projects and places that improve the health of people and communities. Intersections: Health and the Built Environment makes the case that we can build our way to better health, by providing an indication of the scale of the challenges facing communities worldwide, and it outlines the opportunities and benefits for improving global health through intelligent urban design. Ten Principles for Building Healthy Places provides practical steps that communities can adopt to have a positive impact on the health of their population. It is based on recommendations from a workshop of multi-disciplinary experts convened this summer, which distilled findings from three ULI advisory panels conducted last spring in Colorado to recommend strategies for fostering active living. The Colorado Health Foundation funded those panels, and is a partner of the Building Healthy Places Initiative. Healthy Places also looks like it was co-authored with the Colorado Health Foundation. RENEE AUTUMN RAY, AICP | Senior Associate | 404.908.2286 NEW MOBILE NUMBER (m) | renee.ray(a)icfi.com<mailto:renee.ray@icfi.com> | icfi.com<http://www.icfi.com/> ICF INTERNATIONAL | 3 Corporate Square NE, Suite 370, Atlanta, GA 30329 | 404.592.2241 (o) Connect with us on social media<http://www.icfi.com/social>.

12 years, 2 months

[H+T--Friends] APHA call for abstracts now open!

by Eloisa Raynault

The American Public Health Association is now accepting abstracts for the 142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition. The theme of the meeting is Healthography: How Where you Live Affects Your Health and Well-being. Abstracts are due between February 10-14. To learn more, visit https://apha.confex.com/apha/142am/oasys.epl?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_campa… See the website for specific deadlines. Deadlines will not be extended. All authors will be notified via email of abstract status on Monday, June 2, 2014. Please make sure your email address is correct and up-to-date. You do not have to be an APHA member to submit an abstract. However, if your abstract is accepted for presentation, the presenting author MUST become an APHA Individual member and MUST register for the Annual Meeting by the September pre-registration deadline (APHA Learning Institute faculty and Speakers of invited sessions are excluded). Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | 800 I Street NW, Washington DC 20001 | 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]

12 years, 3 months

[H+T--Friends] AUTO: Dan Wu is out of the office (returning 01/02/2014)

by Dan Wu

I am out of the office until 01/02/2014. I am out of the office until 01/02/2014. I'll be out of office with no access to email, but will respond to your email immediately upon my return. Happy Holidays! Note: This is an automated response to your message "[H+T--Friends] Health Transportation Resource by WHO" sent on 12/17/2013 5:47:27 AM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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