Hello,

We would like to invite you to join us for the CHNET and CLASP webinar “Bringing Health into the Transportation Planning Process” – a presentation of some of the work undertaken in British Columbia and Quebec through the Healthy Canada by Design CLASP initiative. Following the 2 hour webinar, we’ll have an opportunity to spend half an hour discussing the implications for Winnipeg. We’ve had the opportunity to hear about this work in its earlier stages, and we’re excited to hear about the most recent lessons learned and how they can be applied here!

Please feel free to bring your lunch as the webinar does fall over our lunch hour. We will also try to have some snacks. RSVPs are appreciated but not necessary. Please feel free to contact me at sprows@wrha.mb.ca or 204 962-0403. Enjoy the puddles (or more snow!) this weekend J

Sarah

Bringing Health into the Transportation Planning Process

April 24, 2014, 12:00-2:30pm

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

490 Hargrave Street

Meeting Room 119*

*Enter through the Travel Health Clinic entrance at the corner of Hargrave St & McDermot Ave

Bike racks are available in front of the building at the corner of Hargrave and McDermot.

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Street parking (metered) is available in front of the building

CHNET-Works! is pleased to collaborate with the Healthy Canada by Design CLASP Initiative, funded by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, on this Fireside Chat.

Researchers from Simon Fraser University and the University of Montreal will present two projects directed at health and transportation planning. 

Join us to hear about:

·     What Simon Fraser researchers discovered, and recommend, about the data that is needed and available to bring health into transportation planning processes.

·     The approach that Montreal researchers have developed, and the data that is needed, to assess the health impacts associated with transportation options in Montreal.

Who should attend?
Professionals in public health, planning and transportation who are interested in weaving health considerations into the transportation planning processes in their communities. 

Advisors on Tap:

Meghan Winters is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She is an Epidemiologist interested in the link between health, transportation, and city design.

Audrey Smargiassi has a PhD in Environmental Sciences.  She is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Montreal.  She is a spokesperson for a team of researchers and practitioners from Montreal Public Health, the University of Montreal, and McGill University, including Patrick Morency, Louis Drouin, Céline Plante, Louis-François Tetreault, Sophie Goudreau, Marianne Hatzopoulou and Lise Gauvin.

Sarah Prowse

Physical Activity Promotion Coordinator

2nd floor - 490 Hargrave Street

Winnipeg, MB   R3A 0X7

Telephone 204 232 3297

Fax 204 940-2690

Email sprowse@wrha.mb.ca

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