Session: Built Environment Institute III: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Creating a Model for Public Health Involvement In Brownfield and Other Land Redevelopment Sites

APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

4212.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Oral

Built Environment Institute III: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Creating a Model for Public Health Involvement In Brownfield and Other Land Redevelopment Sites

This full panel session will describe a model for increasing the involvement of public health professionals (state and local) into the brownfield and other land redevelopment process. Redevelopment needs to be collaboration between public planners, developers, the community, and public health professionals. Public health professionals can play an active roll in protecting and promoting the health of a community, increasing public confidence in redevelopment, and advocating for environmental justice while also promoting land reuse and meeting developers' needs. There are four steps in the model for public health involvement in brownfield and land redevelopment sites: Assessing the Sites, Communicating Risk, Evaluating the Overall Health Status of a Community, and Advocating for Built Environment planning. For each of these steps, a different speaker will describe the competencies needed for the step and present data gathered from previous experiences working with communities on issues of land redevelopment. The final presentation will give examples of “the good, the bad, and the ugly” redevelopment sites and how public health involvement can help change the course of a site.

Learning Objectives: Describe four steps in the model for public health involvement in brownfield and other land redevelopment sites. List the competencies a public health professinoal needs in each step of the model.

Moderator(s):

Marianne Seifert

2:30 PM

Importance of public health involvement in brownfields and land redevelopment