According to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act will reform and streamline programs, cut red tape in the project approval process, increase states' flexibility in determining their most critical transportation needs, and encourage private sector participation in financing and rebuilding infrastructure. David Goldberg will discuss this new bill and its implications for health and safety.
The Northwest Center for Public Health Practice and the Department of Urban Design and Planning invite you to attend the monthly meeting of the Seattle Healthy Places Research Group (HPRG). This group welcomes public health and planning faculty, researchers, students, practitioners, and others interested in exploring the relationship between the built environment and the health of communities.
David A. Goldberg has been a leader in the movement for smarter development, sustainable communities and transportation reform for over a decade. As communications director for Smart Growth America, David assisted dozens of organizations at the national, state and local levels in developing winning messages and building a movement around those issues. A nationally recognized journalist, he is the author of Choosing Our Community's Future: A citizen's guide to getting the most from development, and Rethinking the American Dream, a popular handbook for journalists covering planning issues. David helped to write the groundbreaking book Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, and he has testified before Congress. David is currently the communications director for Transportation for America.
]]>NWCPHP researchers will present on "Confronting Climate Change Health Risks in the Pacific Northwest."
]]>In the January Hot Topics session, Joplin Police Chief, Lane Roberts, recounts the events of the storm from the early warning signals to the community’s recovery. Roberts also discusses the details and decisions that made this a successful coordinated response between state and local emergency management staff. At the end of the session, participants will be able to recognize the characteristics of a tornadic event and compare the nature and success of this response to other disasters.
These monthly Web-conferencing events, sponsored by the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, provide an authoritative hour-long forum for discussing topics that are important to the public health practice community and the tribal health units in the six Northwest states: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
]]>Make your reservations now for the annual joint meeting of the University of Washington / University of British Columbia / Simon Fraser University Occupational, Environmental & Public Health Conference at the Semiahmoo Resort. This meeting is a great opportunity to get together with our cross border colleagues to discuss current health and safety, research, and practice issues. This is an “intimate” conference – small enough to allow conversations between researchers and students from both sides of the border.
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The focus of January 5 and 6 will be on Environmental Health and will feature Dr. Kirk Smith from the University of California at Berkeley. The Public Health portion will take place on January 6 and 7 and will feature health economist Dr. Bob Evans. Attendees can register for the full conference or for part of the conference (the environmental health or public health portion).
]]>It’s hard to think of a more controversial child health topic than immunizations. Although 70% of parents report no concern about recommended vaccines, exemptions from school entry are rising at a rate that startles many long-time public health workers. In the past decade, the proportion of parents who are vaccine hesitant has increased from 22% to 39%. While input from the scientific community shapes the US Immunization schedule, vaccine coverage must be achieved and sustained at the local level with each year’s birth cohort. In the December Hot Topics session, you will learn about the origins, nature, and scope of vaccine hesitancy and strategies to address parents' concerns. How do we balance the state’s duty to protect a community's health with an individual’s right to choose?
Dr. Edgar Marcuse, MD, MPH, FAAP, will discuss these and other ethical issues underlying the current immunization debate. He will offer examples of effective risk communication techniques to assist parents to cope with the morass of conflicting information they may encounter. In this session, you will also learn how Washington State, which leads the nation in school-based exemptions, is tackling the issue.
These monthly Web-conferencing events, sponsored by the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, provide an authoritative hour-long forum for discussing topics that are important to the public health practice community and the tribal health units in the six Northwest states: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
]]>In 2000, NWCPHP created the Regional Network Steering Committee (RNSC) with representatives from our partner states: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. The Committee acts as a sounding board and planning group for our regional training activities and provides a forum for creating a regional strategy for public health workforce development. In October 2003, the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB), which represents all 43 federally recognized tribes in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, became a formal member of the Committee.
The Committee's membership includes a broad representation of workforce development professionals in order to ensure integration among all workforce development activities performed by both the distance learning coordinator and the preparedness education and training coordinator in each state.
]]>A generation ago half of schoolchildren walked or biked to school, yet less than 13% do so today. This talk will discuss the public health ramifications of this change, and the policy and urban planning decisions that led to it. John will discuss the safe routes to school framework for reversing this trend, focusing on his work with cities and school districts in low-income suburban communities under Public Health - Seattle & King County's Communities Putting Prevention to Work grant.
John Vander Sluis is an urban planner with the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, an advocacy and educational non-profit working towards a bike-friendly state. John earned master’s degrees in urban planning and public administration from the University of Washington.
The Northwest Center for Public Health Practice and the Department of Urban Design and Planning invite you to attend the monthly meeting of the Seattle Healthy Places Research Group (HPRG). This group welcomes public health and planning faculty, researchers, students, practitioners, and others interested in exploring the relationship between the built environment and the health of communities.
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