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The Public Health Dimensions
of the 3 Revolutions
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Thursday, September 24
10:30 am - 12:00 pm PDT
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Transportation is a key factor influencing people’s health and the health of communities, particularly for those facing inequities. Health impacts include
those related to traffic safety, air quality, physical activity, and accessibility to health care services and daily needs. Automation and shared mobility could potentially improve public health and safety, or create new (or exacerbate existing) health inequities.
This esteemed panel will discuss the public health dimensions of the 3 Revolutions, and how transportation policy could be steered to enable safer and more equitable travel, promote supportive environments for physical activity, reduce air pollution and carbon
emissions, and increase community resilience in the face of COVID-19, climate change, and other health threats.
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Dan Woo,
MPH, MS, serves as a Health Program and Policy Specialist with the California Department of Public Health’s Climate Change and Health Equity Program. He leads the Program’s work on transportation policy, climate change, and health equity. Dan holds a B.S.
in Design and Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning, an M.S. in Community Development, and a Master of Public Health degree, all from the University of California, Davis.
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Alex Ghenis
is a disability rights consultant and the founder of Accessible Climate Strategies. His personal experience with a spinal cord injury, combined with his growing interest in climate change in the mid-2000s, led him to focus on how people with disabilities must
plan for a changing world. He believes we must build a fully accessible future - including for green infrastructure, clean transportation, and climate adaptation.
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Dr. David Rojas-Rueda
is an assistant professor in epidemiology at Colorado State University. David's primary research focuses on promoting a healthy urban design, supporting
mitigation, and adaptation to climate change. David has over ten years of experience evaluating the health impacts of urban and transport planning policies related to air pollution, traffic noise, green spaces, heat island effects, physical activity, and traffic
accidents. He has worked in several countries around Europe, Africa, Latin, and North America. David specializes in methods such as health impact assessment, populational risk assessment, the burden of disease, and citizen science. His research actively involves
citizens, stakeholders, local and national authorities. He is also a member of the university’s Partnership of Air Quality, Climate, and Health (PACH). He has active collaborations with the World Bank and United Nations agencies, such as the World Health Organization
(WHO), the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), and UN-Habitat.
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Mollie Cohen D'Agostino's work
focuses on the 3 Revolutions in Transportation: vehicle sharing, electrification and increased automation. These forces are profoundly changing how we travel and may cause unknown changes to traffic congestion, equity, air pollution, and energy use. Maximizing
net positive social and environmental impacts of these revolutionary forces is the mission of the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility (3R) Program. Ms. D'Agostino leads the policy outreach component of the 3R Program, and her work aims to provide an independent
foundation of knowledge to decision makers. She leads the annual policy conference, legislative briefings, and other outreach events, as well as leading in the publication of policy briefs and issue papers. She has also spoken at dozens of external events
and conferences to represent the 3R Program.
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