CDC's Healthy Community Design Initiative works to improve public health by: Linking public health surveillance with community design decisions; Improving community design decisions through tools such as Health Impact Assessment; Educating decision makers on the health impact of community design; and building partnerships with community design decision makers and their influencers. To increase the capacity of professional planners and planning departments to address today's public health issues this cooperative agreement will develop strategies and initiatives designed to provide evidence based guidance that planning professionals can use to create health promoting communities.
Deadline: May 15, 2015, 11:59 pm ET.