Greetings,
We've had to reschedule our event, From A to B: Employee Wellness and Our Environment. The event will now take place on May 2nd!
Green Action Centre and the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ present
FROM A TO B: EMPLOYEE WELLNESS AND OUR ENVIRONMENT
Featuring Keynote Speaker Dr. Larry Frank
Wednesday, May 2nd | The Alt Hotel
Dr. Frank is a Professor in Sustainable Transportation and Public Health at the University of British Columbia and President of Urban Design 4 health, Inc. which builds software tools and documents health impacts of transportation and land development actions. He specializes in the interaction between land use, travel behavior, air quality; and health; and in the energy use, and climate change impacts of urban form policies. He coined the term “walkability” in the early – mid ’90s; his work led to WalkScore and has been cited over 24,000 times making him one of the 2 most cited planning academics. Thompson and Reuters lists him in the top 1% globally as a highly cited researcher. Dr. Frank has published over 150 peer reviewed articles and reports and co-authored two of the leading books – Heath and Community Design and Urban Sprawl and Public Health on which helped to map out the field emerging at the nexus between built, natural, and social environments and health. Dr. Frank works directly with local, regional, provincial or state, and federal agencies and developers to help translate results from leading edge research into practice based tools.
