HPRG CALENDAR
The HPRG meets once a month (typically the first Tuesday of every month from September to May) to discuss issues and exchange information pertaining to health policy and impacts. Participation is open to anyone interested in exploring the characteristics and advancement of healthy places. If you would like to receive email notices about HPRG, contact CQGRD.
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dates marked with an * indicate meetings that do not take place on the first Tuesday of the month
Tuesday, September 11, 2007*
Speaker: TBA
Topic: HPRG, looking back and moving forward
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Speaker: Laura Case, Emory University
Topic: LEED - Neighborhood Design
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place:
Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor
1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
VIEW PRESENTATION entitled "The
USGBC, LEED, and Emory Sustainability"
Tuesday, November 13, 2007*
Speaker: Reagan Hammond, Atlanta Regional Commission
Topic: Atlanta Regional Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
VIEW PRESENTATION entitled "Atlanta Regional Bicycle Transportation and Pedestrian Walkways Plan"
Tuesday, December 11, 2007*
Speakers:
Tim Cash, Assistant Branch Chief, Chattahoochee and Flint River Basins, Watershed Protection Branch, Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD)
Betsy T. Kagey, Chief Epidemiologist – Environmental Health, Chronic Disease, Injury & Environmental Epidemiology Section, Georgia Department of Human Resources Division of Public Health
Topic: Georgia Drought
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
VIEW PRESENTATION entitled "Georgia Drought: Potential Public Health Impact"
Tuesday, January 8, 2008*
Speaker: Gaylon Rogers, Labor of Love Ministries, Inc.
Topic: Healthy Housing
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
[ DIRECTIONS,
CQGRD is a short distance from the North Avenue MARTA station, visitor parking
is available in the attached parking deck and bike parking is located directly
in front of the building]
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Speaker: Tom Weyandt, Director, Comprehensive Planning Division, Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC)
Topic: Regional Growth and Innovative Development
Mr. Weyandt presented the ARC's recently-released growth projections for the Atlanta region and the types of development projects recently-recognized by the ARC in their Developments of Excellence award program that are good models for future growth.
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor
1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
[DIRECTIONS,
visitor parking is available in the Michael Street Parking Deck]
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Speaker: Brian Stone, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech's City and Regional Planning Program
Topic:
Heat Stress in Hotlanta: How Large Cities are Amplifying Global Warming
Are large metropolitan regions of the United States warming at the same rate as the planet as a whole? This talk will explore the methods employed to measure warming trends inside and outside of urbanized areas and document the rate of warming within 50 of the most populous U.S. metros between 1950 and 2000. The distinction between the localized and global mechanisms of warming will be considered as part of a more general discussion of climate change adaptation in cities.
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
Articles: Land Use Planning and Surface Heat Island Formation, Urban and Rural Temperature Trends, Urban Heat and Air Pollution
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Speakers: Laura Biazzo and Candace Rutt, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
and Karen Mumford, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Topic:
A Multi-Method Assessment of Park Users and Physical Activity Behaviors in a Sample of DeKalb County, Georgia Parks
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor
1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
[DIRECTIONS,
visitor parking is available in the Michael Street Parking Deck]
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - Special Event
Speakers: Mayor Bill Floyd, City of Decatur, GA; David Green, AIA, LEED-AP, Georgia Tech College of Architecture and Lord, Aeck & Sargent; Mack Reese, partner, Gateway Development Services, Inc.; Alice Rolls, Georgia Organics
Topic: Making Healthy Places Happen
This special event of HPRG will offer real-life, local examples of how to make healthy places. While the Atlanta metro faces many challenges to maintain and enhance quality of life and community health, there are many beacons of hope and success that offer practical and realizable strategies to support healthy lifestyles for all. In a panel discussion we will hear about local government policies and plans to promote wellbeing; development practices to create livable places; and approaches to retrofit an auto-oriented urban area to support walking, biking and transit.
Time: 7:15-9:00 A.M. [to give enough time for our distinguished panel and to give you a chance to network with you colleagues we will be starting earlier than normal]
Place: Georgia Tech College of Management, 800 West Peachtreet Street NW, Atlanta
Presentations [in PDF]: David Green, Mack Reese, Alice Rolls
ARCHIVE of 2006-2007 Schedule of Meetings
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
HPRG Monthly Meeting - [VIEW PRESENTATION]
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer S Mindell, University College London
Topic: Health Impact Assessment of the London Congestion Pricing Program
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
[ DIRECTIONS,
visitor parking is available in the attached parking deck]
On September 6th, Dr. Jennifer Mindell from University College
London in the United Kingdom will be our speaker. She will talk about the Health Impact Assessment she helped conduct for the congestion pricing program in London. Initially opposed by many community leaders, the results of the HIA went on to weigh heavily in the decision making process for the program and played a role in the virtual institutionalization of the HIA in London.
Dr. Mindell is Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and
Public Health, University College London. Her main role is to lead the team from
UCL working on the Health Survey for England, the Scottish Health Survey, and
the UK-wide Low Income Diet and Nutrition Survey. She graduated from St Mary’s
Hospital Medical School with an intercalated BSc and MB BS. She trained in
general practice and in public health medicine and obtained a PhD from Imperial
College in 2002. She was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in
2005.
She was previously Deputy Director of the London Health Observatory, the
national lead regional public health observatory for inequalities, where she led
programs on health impact assessment, web-based knowledge management, and access
to and use of non-routinely available data, such as from private healthcare
providers. She was also an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College
London, where she worked on methods to quantify health impacts of policies
outside the health services. Earlier research experience includes working in the
Clinical Trials Unit in Oxford on a clinical trial of cholesterol reduction and
running a tobacco control program in Oxfordshire.
The main focus of her research for the past decade is in the field of health impact assessment (HIA). Her particular areas of interest are policies that
affect determinants of health and of inequalities, particularly transport and
air quality management; improving the evidence-base for HIA; quantifying health
impacts; and the use of path diagram analysis.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Speakers: John Maximuk, Program Director, Livable Communities Coalition
and Steve Sencer, Deputy General Counsel, Emory University
Topic: Emergence, Goals, and Objectives of the Livable Communities Coalition
and Emory University's Clifton Road Mixed Use Development
Time: 7:30-9:00 AM
Place: Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor
1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Speaker: Sally Flocks, President, PEDS (http://www.peds.org)
Topic: Atlanta's Mean Streets: How Are We Doing?
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
7:30-9:00 AM
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Speakers: Matt Falb, Jon Ducote and Sabrina Obasuyi, from the
Family Health Branch at Georgia's Division of Public Health and
Jimmy Dills, Rollins School of Public Health, at Emory University
Topic: Georgia's Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative. This is a great opportunity to learn about state-level efforts to address concerns related to nutrition, sedentary lifestyles, and the built environment.
Place: Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor
1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
7:30-9:00 AM
HPRG Monthly Meeting [VIEW PRESENTATION]
Speakers:
-Ken Powell, Public Health and Epidemiologic Consultant
-Matt Falb, Epidemiologist, Georgia Division of Public Health
-Tony Giarusso,
Center for GIS, Georgia Tech
Topic: Estimating the percentage of children in Georgia living within a safe
and reasonable walking distance from school using census and school data and
GIS and analytic software
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
7:30 - 9:00 AM
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Topic: CDC's Healthy Homes Activities: Policy
and Research
Speaker: Mary Jean Brown, ScD
Chief, Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch and Healthy Homes Goal Team,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Place: Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor
1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
7:30 - 9:00 AM
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Topic: Atlanta BeltLine Health Impact Assessment Survey Results - How Important is Health to Atlantans?
Speakers: CQGRD Researchers
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
7:30 - 9:00 AM
HPRG Monthly Meeting [VIEW PRESENTATION]
Topic:
Atlantic Station Study: Does moving to a mixed use residential setting influence travel, physical activity, and nutrition behaviors?
Speakers:
Dr. Karen Glanz, Ph.D, Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education and Director, Emory Prevention Research Center, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.
Jennifer Weissman, MPH, Senior Project Coordinator for the Atlantic Station Health Study, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Place:
Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor
1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
[DIRECTIONS,
visitor parking is available in the Michael Street Parking Deck]
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
7:30 - 9:00 AM
HPRG Monthly Meeting [VIEW
PRESENTATION]
Topic: Overview/Update of Applied Research Projects Concerning Outdoor and
Indoor Built Environments, and Urban Outdoor Air Quality
Speakers:
- Derek G. Shendell (D.Env, MPH), Georgia State University Institute of Public
Health
- Janet Weissman (MPH), DeKalb County Board of Health-Population Health Division
- MPH and MS students working on projects: Dr. Yuqi Huang, Ms. Dana Sanders,
Mr. Matt Johnson, Dr. Jianhua Yang, Ms. Ashley Snyderburn, Ms. Namrita Kumar,
Ms. Amber Johnson, Ms. Margo Witteveen.
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite 213,
Atlanta
[ DIRECTIONS,
visitor parking is available in the attached parking deck, bike racks available]
This talk and discussion will summarize the goals, designs and current
progress of multiple studies being led by the Institute of Public Health
(Prevention Sciences track) at Georgia State University, with internal and
external collaborators, concerning indoor and outdoor physical/built environment
factors and urban outdoor air quality. The studies being conducted
include:
1.) at public K-12 schools in DeKalb and Fulton counties, environmental health
education to enhance awareness, knowledge and skills of school nurses, clinic
assistants and teachers with process, impact and outcome measures including
average daily attendance and reasons for absence, tardiness and leaving early;
2.) at DeKalb County senior wellness centers regarding factors promoting or
inhibiting mobility;
3.) and, in conjunction with volunteer participants of a major endurance running/walking
event in March 2007, to examine for the first time among competitive recreational
athletes-- with qualitative and quantitative measurements-- environmental,
sociodemographic, nutritional, immunological, physical and/or cardiorespiratory
characteristics during training, the race, and planned post-race recovery.
ARCHIVE of 2005-2006 Schedule of Meetings
Tuesday, September 6, 2005, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Topic: "Healthy Places" at every scale...building, neighborhood, region,
nation, globe
Speakers: William "Buck" Baker (Atlanta Regional Health Forum), Andy
Dannenberg (CDC), Michael Gamble (Georgia Tech), Mine Hashas (CQGRD
and CATEA), Jude LeBlanc (Georgia Tech), Karen Mumford (Emory University),
Catherine Ross (CQGRD), Candace Rutt (CDC), Eric Sundquist (CQGRD)
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
Tuesday, September 27, 2005, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Topic: Aging and Livable Communities
Speakers: Scott Ball, president, Association for Community Design;
and Kathryn Lawler, director, Aging Atlanta
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Topic: Physical Activity and Health
Speaker: Bill Kohl, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Place: Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
Grace Crum Rollins Building, Room 729
1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
Tuesday, December 6, 2005, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Topic: Air Quality
Speaker: Stefanie Sarnet
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
Tuesday, January 10, 2006, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Topic: Health Impact Assessment of the Atlanta BeltLine
Speaker: Jason Barringer and Karen Leone de Nie, CQGRD
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street,
Suite 213, Atlanta
Tuesday, February 7, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Topic: Developing Measures to Evaluate the Nutrition Environments of Communities
Speaker: Karen Glanz, Ph.D., M.P.H., Emory University
Place: Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor
1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
Karen Glanz is Professor and Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Research Scholar at Emory University. Her research focuses on theories of health behavior, cancer prevention and control, ethnic differences in health behavior and determinants, and nutrition education and behavior. For more information about Dr. Glanz visit http://www.sph.emory.edu/bshe/KGlanz.php .
Tuesday, March 7, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Topic: The Role of Site Design and Building Design in Promoting Physical
Activity
Speaker: Prof. Craig Zimring, Georgia Tech College of Architecture (http://www.coa.gatech.edu/phd/faculty/zimring/biosketch.htm)
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
The designs of buildings and of the sites and campuses that surround them can play significant roles in promoting everyday physical activity. In this talk we discuss several projects in the College of Architecture that are underway or recently completed:
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Campus Design and Layout : a new CDC/NIEHS project looking at how the layout of paths and amenities impacts walking on corporate campuses (being conducted in collaboration with Dr Mine Hashas, Dr Phil Sparling, Dr Julie Gazmararian, Dr Mahbub Rashid, and others)
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Continuing Care Retirement Communities : a survey of 400 communities exploring their support for physical activity (conducted in collaboration with the American Association of Housing and Services for the Aged); an ALR-funded dissertation project by Anjali Joseph examining how path layout and characteristics predict route choice for instrumental and recreational walking by the older residents
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Stairs : a study of an innovative California office building that uses “skip-stop” elevators (being conducted in collaboration with Dr Bill Kohl, Dr Toni Yancey and Cheryl Fuller) and an ALR-funded dissertation by Gayle Nichol examining how stair design encourages everyday stair use
Tuesday, April 4, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Topic: Building Healthier Communities and Promoting Healthier Kids (National
Public Health Week)
Panelists: Sarah Martin, Ph.D., Health Scientist at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention; Amanda Thompson, Planning Services Officer of
the City of Decatur; other panelists invited
Place: CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite
213, Atlanta
Tuesday, May 2, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Topic: TBA
Speaker: Dr. Howard Frumkin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Place: Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
Grace Crum Rollins Building, Room 729
1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta,GA
ARCHIVE of ACADEMIC YEAR 2004-2005 Schedule of Meetings
Tuesday, September 7, 2004, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
HPRG Reception
Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
Grace Crum Rollins Building, Room 721/29
1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
Tuesday, September 14, 2004, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite 213, Atlanta
Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Presenter: Mike Dobbins, Georgia Tech Faculty
Topic: Regional Transportation Planning and Public Health
CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite 213, Atlanta
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Presenter: William G. Baker, Jr., MD, FACP
Topic: Atlanta Regional Health Forum
Southface, 241 Pine Street NE, Atlanta
Tuesday, December 14, 2004, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Presenters: Tom Weyandt, Atlanta Regional Commission, and Candace
Rutt, Centers for Disease Control
Southface, 241 Pine Street NE, Atlanta
Tuesday, January 18, 2005, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Presenters: Jon Sanford, Center for Assistive Technology & Environmental
Access, and Tina Butterfield, Georgia Tech, Ph.D. Student
Southface, 241 Pine Street NE, Atlanta
Tuesday, February 1, 2005, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Presenters: TBA
CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite 213, Atlanta
Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Topic: Neighborhood Parks and Active Living
Presenters: Dr. Howard Frumkin and Dr. Karen Mumford, Emory University
Topic: The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth
Presenter: Dr. Robert Kirkman, Georgia Tech
CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite 213, Atlanta
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Presenters: TBA
CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite 213, Atlanta
Tuesday, May 3, 2005, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
HPRG Monthly Meeting
Presenters: Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director of Architecture Program,
Georgia Tech
CQGRD, Technology Square, ED Building, 760 Spring Street, Suite 213, Atlanta
