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Free Webinar – Building Bridges between Transportation and Health

May 27, 2015 Building Bridges between Transportation and Health Meeting Description: This webinar will discuss the connection between transportation and health and give insight into the specific process one community used to fund programs and how the programs are implemented … Continue reading

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Research Associate post in transport and health at University College of London

Applicants are invited for a Research Associate position in an exciting cross-faculty research project: Street mobility and accessibility: developing tools for overcoming older people’s barriers to walking to develop tools to measure and model community severance. The main responsibility will … Continue reading

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An exciting new MSC in Transport, health and policy at University College London from Autumn 2015

  The strong links between transport and health are becoming better understood and, in April 2013, they were given formal recognition through the transfer to English local authorities of responsibility for public health.  For the first time in decades, there … Continue reading

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Womens National Cycling Convention 30 April 2015 York Racecourse York

  This event in York will focus on addressing the perceived barriers and obstacles to cycling in Britain: featuring presentations, roundtable workshops and discussion about the current projects, campaigns and research. Those in involved in the promotion, design and delivery … Continue reading

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Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for cycling and walking

World Health Organisation (WHO) Health Economic Assessment Tool for Walking and Cycling are running free online training courses on the 1st (in English) and 9th (in German) of April – sign up click here To facilitate evidence-based decision-making, WHO has … Continue reading

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International Conference on Transport & Health, London, 2015: early registration now open

The 1st International Conference on Transport and Health is designed as a direct participatory experience. Policy-makers, practitioners and academics from multiple disciplines involved with transport planning and engineering, public health, urban planning, spatial and architectural design, environmental planning, economics and … Continue reading

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ESRC Bloomsbury DTC CASE Studentships Bloomsbury DTC for the Social Sciences

A rare opportunity to do a PhD based in both a leading public health university and a world-class transport authority is currently being advertised. The Bloomsbury DTC for the Social Sciences is a consortium of four institutions located in Bloomsbury, … Continue reading

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Air Pollution and Public Health

2 Febuary 2015, Birmingham Public health England has organized a free one-day seminar on Air pollution and Public Health. Public Health England (PHE) are to develop a programme in support of national and local government to reduce the 25,000 deaths … Continue reading

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Health impact assessment of traffic noise in Madrid (Spain)

Environmental Research volume 137  February 2015, Pages 136–140 Highlights The results obtained tend to question the WHO health protection threshold values. This study highlights the importance of traffic noise to the health in large cities. These results serve to highlight … Continue reading

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Evidence by the THSG to the Health Select Committee Inquiry into Physical Activity.

The promotion of active travel is one of the most effective ways to promote physical activity because it can be built into people’s daily lives. There is evidence from around the world, reviewed in Health on the Move 2 
that people … Continue reading

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