Survey Request: Need for a Responsive Expert Evidence Service

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 idea of a Responsive Service is that practitioners working on issues addressing the built and natural environment would be able to register a specific question about the evidence of health impacts of particular urban planning issues and receive a fully evidenced response within a set time period. Such a Service could build up a stock of answers which could be made available to professionals working on aspects of the built and natural environment.

The study is being funded by Public Health England.

We would therefore like to know what the potential target audience of professionals think of the idea, its viability, and in what format any service might work best. The survey would take about 5 minutes to complete with just eleven questions, and we would appreciate your views.

Click through for the survey bit.ly/1uv0mhq

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Health Impact Assessment of High Speed 2 Meeting – Updated

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 (at) gmail (dot) com for more details.

UPDATE 1:

The HS2 debate will be hosted by Andrew Gwynne MP and there will be 4 speakers attending:

One speaker for HS2 – name to be confirmed
One speaker against – Sandra Macdonald
One neutral speaker outlining THSG views – Dr Stephen Watkins
One speaker presenting Health Impact Assessment from Derbyshire CC – Bruce McKenzie

Each speaker will have 15 – 20 mins presentation time and approximately 40 /60 minutes will be given to general discussion.

Please email THSGchair@gmail.com if you wish to attend in order that Parliamentary invites can be issued.

See also:

Derbyshire County Council’s HIA on THSG’s Evidence and Submissions page

HS2’s Health Impact Assessment

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Annual THSG seminar

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Health Select Committee review of public health

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

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 and cycle hire scheme in London. Speakers included politicians, civil servants, consultants and non-governmental organisations and there were participative workshops in the afternoon.
Further details may be found at www.lsbu.ac.uk/thelondoncyclingconference
London South Bank University

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