This upcoming webinar may be of interest…(apologies if you receive this multiple times).

Gabe

Gabe Rousseau, Ph.D.

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Human Environment

    Livability Team Leader and

    Bicycle & Pedestrian Program Manager

     (202)-366-8044

From: Schweizer, Christian (DCE-CEH) [mailto:csc@euro.who.int]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 5:54 AM
To: training@heatwalkingcycling.org
Subject: Announcement: Online training for the WHO/Europe Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for Walking and Cycling

Dear interested HEAT users

WHO/Europe’s Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for walking and cycling is an online resource to estimate the economic savings resulting from reductions in mortality as a consequence of regular cycling and/or walking (see www.heatwalkingcycling.org). HEAT can be used by walking and cycling campaigners, researchers and policymakers alike. It enables users to estimate the value to health of new infrastructure, policies or programmes. These can be used to make the case for new investment, or as inputs to comprehensive health impact assessments.

To help people in the use of this tool, WHO/Europe is now offering online training sessions on the following dates:

· 30 November 2012

· 14 December 2012

· 14 January 2013

· 22 February 2013

· 15 March 2013

All sessions will start at 15:00 Central European Time, and will last approximately one hour. During this time you will be walked through an example of HEAT, and be able to ask questions online to experts on HEAT.

Please register by sending an e-mail to training@heatwalkingcycling.org stating:

· The date of the session you wish to join

· Any details of ways that you have used HEAT

· Any specific questions you would like addressed during the training

We will then send you details of how to log on and access the training session in due time.

Please feel free to forward this message to other colleagues or mailing lists of possibly interested HEAT users.

Kind regards,

Christian Schweizer

Technical Officer, Transport and Health
Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security and Environment
World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe
Scherfigsvej 8
2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel. +45 39 17 1386, Fax. +45 39 17 1818
Skype: who-schweizerc
E-mail: csc@euro.who.int