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.