[PBIC News Brief -- News from the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center]
May 21, 2012
PBIC and APHA Offer Free Webinar on Health Impact Assessments and Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety
CHAPEL HILL, NC — The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) in conjunction with the American Public Health Association announces the next free webinar in its Livable Communities Webinar Series:
Using Health Impact Assessments to Connect Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety and Health
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
3:30 p.m. — 5:00 p.m. EDT
To register, visit: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/416157994<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?UNCHighwaySafetyRese/b2c4a17893/9641ba9233/43cded55c7>.
Health impact assessments are a valuable tool for estimating the health impact of various projects and policies.
This webinar will explore what health impact assessments are and how they can be used to connect bicycle and pedestrian safety and health. 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.
This webinar is part of the PBIC's Liveable Communities webinar series and is being presented in conjunction with the American Public Health Association. It is the first of three webinars exploring health and pedestrian and bicycle safety.
PBIC offers free, public webinars approximately monthly. To register for upcoming webinars and to access archived presentations, please visit www.walkinginfo.org/webinars<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?UNCHighwaySafetyRese/b2c4a17893/9641ba9233/3e19b21233>.
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Since its inception in 1999, PBIC's mission has been to improve the quality of life in communities through the increase of safe walking and bicycling as a viable means of transportation and physical activity. The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center is maintained by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center with funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration.
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Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
730 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
Campus Box 3430
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3430
Phone: 1.888.823.3977
Fax: 919.962.8710
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