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Customizing the Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse to meet Community Needs

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Nisha Botchwey, MPH, MCRP, PHD , School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
This presentation will describe the evolution of the Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse and highlight its approach to addressing needs at the intersection of planning, architecture, transportation engineering, health impact assessment, and public health academic training and professional development. The current workforces in public health and community design need new and expanded types and means training and cross-training in order to address such emerging challenges to community health and quality of life as the obesity epidemic and the aging of the population.

Learning Areas:

Public health or related education

Learning Objectives:
Identify the key public health-related knowledge skills and abilities that community design professionals do and will need in the future. Identify the key community design-related knowledge skills and abilities that public health professionals do and will need in the future.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to give this presentation on this material because I direct the Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse. Representing Georgia Tech, I also am part of the institutional partnership on the Building Bridges grant with the American Planning Association and the American Public Health Association.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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