Author Archives: Steve Watkins

UCL MSc Transport, Health & Policy

Posted on 28 May 2014 by Steve Watkins

Aim: To create leaders who can implement and assess policy across the essential services of transport and health. A new approach: The MSc in Transport, Health and Policy deliberately breaks from a technical topic-per-module approach, instead focussing on stages within … Continue reading →

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Survey Request: Need for a Responsive Expert Evidence Service

Posted on 13 May 2014 by Steve Watkins

With colleagues from the University of the West of England Dr Adrian Davies, Visiting Professor and Public Health Support to Bristol City Transport, undertaking a scoping study as to the viability of a Responsive Expert Evidence Service addressing healthier places. The … Continue reading →

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Health Impact Assessment of High Speed 2 Meeting – Updated

Posted on 28 February 2014 by Steve Watkins

A meeting on the potential health and wellbeing impacts of HS2 will be held at the House of Commons on: Tuesday 25th March 2014 at 2:00-4:00pm in Room CR6, at The House of Commons Everyone is welcome. Please contact Liz Davies, thsgchair … Continue reading →

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Annual THSG seminar

Posted on 24 August 2011 by Steve Watkins
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Health Select Committee review of public health

Posted on 31 May 2011 by Steve Watkins

The THSG is currently preparing a document on public health, and particularly on the need to consider the wider determinants of health (especially transport, of course).  If you wish to contribute, please email Dr Stephen Watkins by 2nd June 2011.

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Second announcement: Policies and practice for promoting pedalling, Conference Wednesday 13th April 2011

Posted on 6 March 2011 by Steve Watkins

A conference on cycling was held on Wednesday 13th April 2011. The aim of the conference was to identify barriers to ambition for investment in cycling and consider the value of some recent relevant investments and ideas, including the superhighways … Continue reading →

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