Hello - I second Jenny's Congratulations to Adrian for this wonderful new
position! To add a bit of history - there are other positions and even
joint degree programs (e.g. UCLA, Portland State, U Michigan and others)
that
have at various levels integrated transportation and health for quite some
Time. This new one in Scotland contributes significantly to the ongoing
formalization of the links between transportation and health as a field
within academia.
My position directly linking planning and health at the University of
British Columbia has been cross appointed for well over
a decade between the School of Population and Public Health in the Faculty
of Medicine and the School of Community and Regional Planning in the
Faculty of Applied Science which is where Engineering and Architecture and
Landscape Architecture are located. It is partially funded through a
transportation endowment from the Bombardier Foundation currently managed
by a Faculty of Medicine. The sole purpose of my position over the last
decade is to research
(
http://health-design.spph.ubc.ca) and teach on the links between planning
and health.
I and others have worked at the nexus between transportation and
health for a long time now. For me it has been the entirety of my 30 year
Career starting with my dissertation research in Seattle
linking active transportation with land use mix and density which
eventually led to Walkscore after we published the results in the form of
the first "walkability map" in the Seattle Times newspaper. Susan Handy
And Ruth Steiner also had some work on this topic
around that time). I was told at the time by senior
planning colleagues that studying non-motorized travel was a bad idea and
too "pedestrian" and there would be no money or
resources in it. Five years later the U.S. Surgeon General came out with
the report on the population level health benefits of moderate physical
activity (aka walking) and the rest is history. I am happy I looked past
this well intended advice and have seen this field grow from literally
nothing to where it is today.
It is a true delight to see more and more of this type of formal
integration taking place between planning and health and I think there are
others out there with positions that make this connection directly through
their academic appointments. It is now timely that we share our
experiences and help one another navigate what is atrue interdisciplinary
experience - which has many important trade-offs to consider. These often
include having two homes in disparate parts of universities that otherwise
are often not well connected dealing with resources and funding,
accountability and service, promotions and raises, where you publish and
are visibility or not, and many other considerations. Universities tout
interdisciplinarity - yet are poorly equipped to help those that try.
Perhaps we can work together on ways to help maximize the success of these
early
efforts to make this linkage a success! It is not as easy as it
sounds ... but it is worthwhile.
Cheers,
Larry Frank, UBC
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Congratulations to Adrian Davis, new Professor of Transport and Health at
Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Adrian will be well known to most people in the transport and health
field, as he has combined transport planning and public health as both a
practitioner and an academic (truly multi- and inter-disciplinary work).
He will continue working with colleagues at the University of Western
England and his roles as Co-Chair (Science) of the Transport and Health
Study Group (THSG) and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport and
Health.
We think this is a world first and shows our 'niche' specialty is becoming
mainstream.
Jenny Mindell
Dr Jennifer Mindell
Professor of Public Health
Health and Social Surveys Research Group
Research Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health
UCL
1-10 Torrington Place
London WC1E 6BT
Tel: 020-7679-1269
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On 2018-09-12, 8:58 AM, "Mindell, Jenny" <j.mindell(a)ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
Congratulations to Adrian Davis, new Professor of
Transport and Health at
Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Adrian will be well known to most people in the transport and health
field, as he has combined transport planning and public health as both a
practitioner and an academic (truly multi- and inter-disciplinary work).
He will continue working with colleagues at the University of Western
England and his roles as Co-Chair (Science) of the Transport and Health
Study Group (THSG) and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport
and Health.
We think this is a world first and shows our 'niche' specialty is
becoming mainstream.
Jenny Mindell
Dr Jennifer Mindell
Professor of Public Health
Health and Social Surveys Research Group
Research Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health
UCL
1-10 Torrington Place
London WC1E 6BT
Tel: 020-7679-1269
Twitter: j_mindell
Web:
http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=JMIND63
Editor-in-chief Journal of Transport and Health:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-transport-and-health/
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