Dear TRB health and transportation subcommittee friends,

APHA and the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) have scheduled a free webinar that will explore what health impact assessments are and how they can be used to connect bicycle and pedestrian safety and health. Registration is now open. It is scheduled for Tuesday July 24th starting at 3:30 PM Eastern.

http://www.walkinginfo.org/training/pbic/lc_webinar_07-24-2012.cfm

More details: Bethany Rogerson, senior associate for the Health Impact Project, a collaboration of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, will provide an overview of HIA programs and how they can add value to a decision-making process. Her presentation will be followed by two case studies of how HIAs were successfully used. Brendan Haggerty, a planner within Clark County, Wash. public health department, will discuss how HIAs were used in the Clark County Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan in 2010 and the lessons learned from that process. The county’s HIA was recognized as a model practice by the National Association of County and City Health Officials and won the 2012 Translating Research to Policy Award from Active Living Research. Finally Jim Skoog, Community Health Specialist with St. Louis County Public Health and Human Services in NE Minnesota, and Ellen Pillsbury, Senior Planner with the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission (ARDC) Regional Planning Division, will discuss how HIAs have been used within St. Louis County.