Hot Topic Workshops
Slide decks and corresponding audio are available under each presenter profile. Due to technical difficulties, some presentations were not recorded. In this instance, a PDF or the original PowerPoint presentation is provided.
Cross-disciplinary Hot Topic Workshops will be led by teams of transport, urban planning and/or public health professionals. Each interactive workshop will be complemented by accepted delegate abstract presentations to facilitate lessons learned and best practices between cross-disciplinary policy-makers, practitioners, academics and students involved in the research and planning of transport infrastructure projects and quality of life impacts across the world.
Driving Health & Transport: The Origin, Status & Objective of Public Health in Planning
Andrew Buroni, PhD
Principal Consultant Environmental Planning & Development Group Leader HIA RPS Group United Kingdom Andrew is RPS' Health and Social Impact Assessment (HIA) Practice Leader with over 13 years of project experience on leading international health impact assessment in the energy (including nuclear power and national grid infrastructure), waste management, transport, civil aviation, spatial planning, regeneration and sustainable development sectors. Andrew provides clients with specialist advice on clarifying potential health outcomes, separating perceived impacts from actual risk, assessing the distribution, significance and likelihood of potential health outcomes and the provision of bespoke Health Action Plans geared to addressing existing burdens of poor health, inequality and improving community health. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, holds a PhD on international HIA methods and best practice, and is one of the few HIA practitioners with Public Inquiry experience. 
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Ronald Deverman, MA
Associate Vice President Environmental Planning HNTB Corporation United Kingdom Ron is Associate Vice President in Environmental Planning for HNTB, a national engineering, architecture and planning firm, managing environmental impact assessment projects for transportation infrastructure improvements such as transit, passenger and freight rail, roadways, and bridges. Ron has 28 years experience in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) with special expertise in community impact assessment, cumulative effects analysis, and federal environmental regulations, such as the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, National Historic Preservation Act, and Threatened and Endangered Species Act. Ron's education includes a BS in civil/environmental engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana, a MA in literature and creative writing from the University of Illinois in Springfield, and post-graduate studies in NEPA and related environmental studies. Ron is the Immediate Past President of the National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP). He has also chaired their national NEPA Symposium, NEPA Working Group, Transportation Working Group (co-founder), and 27th Annual Conference (Dearborn, Michigan). He is a Past President of IAEP, the Illinois chapter of NAEP. Ron is a regular contributor to the national journal, Environmental Practice, published by Cambridge University Press. ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=70dcedc29825 | ||
Global Road Safety & Injury Prevention
Sponsored by the FIA Foundation www.fiafoundation.org
Kavi Bhalla, PhD
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
United States
Kavi's research focuses on assessing the health effects (injuries, air quality, physical activities, others) of transport and urban policies. A substantial amount of his work focuses on road safety in low- and middle-income countries. Kavi develops analytical tools for estimating the burden of injuries in information-poor settings using existing data sources, including vital registers, mortuary and burial registers, hospital administrative records and trauma surveillance systems, household surveys, and verbal autopsy data. Application of these methods have included estimates of the national burden of road injuries in 18 countries, regional burden of injuries in Africa, and the global burden of injuries. Kavi has co-led the injury expert group of the 2010 revision of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD-2010) project. Information on this project is available at www.globalburdenofinjuries.org
Kavi was formally trained as a mechanical engineer. He earned a PhD from Cornell University with a thesis research focus on the mechanics of material failure, which was later applied to the study of injury biomechanics and vehicle crashworthiness. Kavi's research interest include the design of products, environments, and systems that are safe and have positive health impacts.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=208336fe1eb5
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
United States
Kavi's research focuses on assessing the health effects (injuries, air quality, physical activities, others) of transport and urban policies. A substantial amount of his work focuses on road safety in low- and middle-income countries. Kavi develops analytical tools for estimating the burden of injuries in information-poor settings using existing data sources, including vital registers, mortuary and burial registers, hospital administrative records and trauma surveillance systems, household surveys, and verbal autopsy data. Application of these methods have included estimates of the national burden of road injuries in 18 countries, regional burden of injuries in Africa, and the global burden of injuries. Kavi has co-led the injury expert group of the 2010 revision of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD-2010) project. Information on this project is available at www.globalburdenofinjuries.org
Kavi was formally trained as a mechanical engineer. He earned a PhD from Cornell University with a thesis research focus on the mechanics of material failure, which was later applied to the study of injury biomechanics and vehicle crashworthiness. Kavi's research interest include the design of products, environments, and systems that are safe and have positive health impacts.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=208336fe1eb5
Nicola Christie, PhD
Director of Research
Centre for Transport Studies
University College London
United Kingdom
Nicola is a psychologist with over 25 years of experience in road safety research, which includes 16 years at the Transport Research Laboratory, 10 years at the University of Surrey. Her research interests have focused on the causes and consequences of road traffic collisions and other unintentional injuries and the evaluation of interventions to reduce injuries. Nicola is particularly interested in the relationship between deprivation and road traffic injury and the wider social, economic and environmental determinants of injury. Most of her research has been used to inform policy making. Based on this perspective, Nicola is interested in understanding the relationship between policies which have cross cutting impacts on mobility, health and well-being, injury and sustainability.
Nicola is a member of the Miskin group - a collaboration of leading researchers in the fields of injury prevention http://www.miskin-group.org.uk/. She is also a member of Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety www.pacts.org.uk/ and is part of their Road User Behaviour Working Party and provides advice on their reports. Nicola was a contributing author for the WHO report on child and adolescent road traffic injury (2008) and on publications by the European Occupational Safety and Health Executive on work related road risk. In 2008, she was an expert witness for the House of Commons Transport Select Committee on the topic of road safety.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=b919f116fbdf
Director of Research
Centre for Transport Studies
University College London
United Kingdom
Nicola is a psychologist with over 25 years of experience in road safety research, which includes 16 years at the Transport Research Laboratory, 10 years at the University of Surrey. Her research interests have focused on the causes and consequences of road traffic collisions and other unintentional injuries and the evaluation of interventions to reduce injuries. Nicola is particularly interested in the relationship between deprivation and road traffic injury and the wider social, economic and environmental determinants of injury. Most of her research has been used to inform policy making. Based on this perspective, Nicola is interested in understanding the relationship between policies which have cross cutting impacts on mobility, health and well-being, injury and sustainability.
Nicola is a member of the Miskin group - a collaboration of leading researchers in the fields of injury prevention http://www.miskin-group.org.uk/. She is also a member of Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety www.pacts.org.uk/ and is part of their Road User Behaviour Working Party and provides advice on their reports. Nicola was a contributing author for the WHO report on child and adolescent road traffic injury (2008) and on publications by the European Occupational Safety and Health Executive on work related road risk. In 2008, she was an expert witness for the House of Commons Transport Select Committee on the topic of road safety.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=b919f116fbdf
Dinesh Mohan, PhD
Volvo Chair Professor (Emeritus)
Department Transportation Research & Injury Prevention Programme
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
India
Dinesh Mohan is one of the world’s leading experts on traffic safety issues and human tolerance to injury. His work has significantly advanced motorcycle helmet design, pedestrian and bicyclist safety and child restraint regulations, and helped develop safer ways for various modes of transportation to safely share the roadways. Concerned with mobility and safety of people outside the car, Dinesh is trying to integrate these issues within a broader framework of sustainable transport policies, urban transport options and people’s right to access and safety as a fundamental human right. He has co-authored end edited six books on safety, is the recipient of Distinguished Alumnus Award of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, the APHA International Distinguished Career Award, and the 1991 International Association for Accident & Traffic Medicine’s International Award and Medal for outstanding achievement in traffic safety.
Previously, Dinesh has has worked at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Washington DC (1975-1978) and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (1971-1975). He has been a consultant on safety related matters to government departments in India, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Iraq and Libya. A distinguished alumunus from IIT Bombay and a member of WHO advisory panel, Dinesh designed Bus Rapid Transit Systems (BRTS) in Delhi that provide a dedicated corridor for quicker bus movements (coupled with bus priority signaling system) and give a segregated and safe corridor for pedestrians and non-motorized transport like cycles and cycle rickshaw. The BRTS is successfully running in a number of cities across the world like, Curitiba, Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, LA, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul, Beijing, Johannesburg and Lagos.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=3798a054cb73
Volvo Chair Professor (Emeritus)
Department Transportation Research & Injury Prevention Programme
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
India
Dinesh Mohan is one of the world’s leading experts on traffic safety issues and human tolerance to injury. His work has significantly advanced motorcycle helmet design, pedestrian and bicyclist safety and child restraint regulations, and helped develop safer ways for various modes of transportation to safely share the roadways. Concerned with mobility and safety of people outside the car, Dinesh is trying to integrate these issues within a broader framework of sustainable transport policies, urban transport options and people’s right to access and safety as a fundamental human right. He has co-authored end edited six books on safety, is the recipient of Distinguished Alumnus Award of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, the APHA International Distinguished Career Award, and the 1991 International Association for Accident & Traffic Medicine’s International Award and Medal for outstanding achievement in traffic safety.
Previously, Dinesh has has worked at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Washington DC (1975-1978) and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (1971-1975). He has been a consultant on safety related matters to government departments in India, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Iraq and Libya. A distinguished alumunus from IIT Bombay and a member of WHO advisory panel, Dinesh designed Bus Rapid Transit Systems (BRTS) in Delhi that provide a dedicated corridor for quicker bus movements (coupled with bus priority signaling system) and give a segregated and safe corridor for pedestrians and non-motorized transport like cycles and cycle rickshaw. The BRTS is successfully running in a number of cities across the world like, Curitiba, Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, LA, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul, Beijing, Johannesburg and Lagos.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=3798a054cb73
Economic Modeling: Cycling, Strategy & Software
Stephane Larocque
Senior Vice President Consulting Practice Leader Impact Infrastructure Canada Stephane is an internationally recognized professional in the field of triple-bottom line economic analysis, which reflects the environmental, social and financial impacts of infrastructure investment. Stéphane was one of the original pioneers in the development of the Sustainable Return on Investment (SROI) Framework. By joining Impact Infrastructure CEO John Williams and Chief Economist John Parker, he completes the process of reuniting the original team that pioneered the development of SROI and introduced it into the public domain in 2009 through the Clinton Global Initiative. Over his nearly 20 year career, Stéphane established himself as a thought leader speaking at conferences for groups such as; the American Public Works Association, the US Green Building Council, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Transportation Research Board, the Canadian Society of Value Analysis, the American Planning Association as well as teaching Masters level workshops at Columbia University in New York. ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=c19c4e35bab9 |
Steve Watkins, PhD
Director of Public Health for Stockport Co-Chair, Transport & Health Study Group United Kingdom Steve is Director of Public Health for Stockport. He is one of the founding members of the Transport & Health Study Group (THSG) when it was launched in 1989 and became its chair a few years later. In 2013 when the role of chair was split in two, Steve became the Policy Co-chair. He was a co-author and editor of Health on the Move and of Health on the Move 2. Steve's interest in public health includes not only transport, but also the health effects of economic policy. He is a Council member of the British Medical Association and a former President of the Medical Practitioners Union (a UK body which describes itself as the medical organisation of the social movements of the people). Be the Change you want to see in the world -Mahatma Gandhi |
Health in All Policies: Research into Action
Roger Mackett, PhD
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
University College London
United Kingdom
Roger is Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies and Principal Research Associate in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London. (UCL) He is chair of the Transport Working Group of the Age Action Alliance and a member of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee. Roger has extensive experience in transport policy analysis. He has led research on the influence of car use on children’s physical activity and their use of the local environment using accelerometers and GPS monitors in the project CAPABLE (Children’s Activities, Perceptions and Behaviour in the Local Environment). Roger also led the UCL contribution to the project AUNT SUE (Accessibility and User Needs in Transport for Sustainable Urban Environments), which involved the development of methodologies for addressing social exclusion by improving accessibility. Currently he is involved in projects on Commuting and Health in Cambridge; health impacts of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway and children’s independent mobility around the world. Roger has produced reports on the links between transport, physical activity and health, the benefits of concessionary bus passes for older people, ways of overcoming the barriers to accessibility for older people and transport and poverty.
ICTH Presentation: .https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=e64561a74d3d
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
University College London
United Kingdom
Roger is Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies and Principal Research Associate in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London. (UCL) He is chair of the Transport Working Group of the Age Action Alliance and a member of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee. Roger has extensive experience in transport policy analysis. He has led research on the influence of car use on children’s physical activity and their use of the local environment using accelerometers and GPS monitors in the project CAPABLE (Children’s Activities, Perceptions and Behaviour in the Local Environment). Roger also led the UCL contribution to the project AUNT SUE (Accessibility and User Needs in Transport for Sustainable Urban Environments), which involved the development of methodologies for addressing social exclusion by improving accessibility. Currently he is involved in projects on Commuting and Health in Cambridge; health impacts of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway and children’s independent mobility around the world. Roger has produced reports on the links between transport, physical activity and health, the benefits of concessionary bus passes for older people, ways of overcoming the barriers to accessibility for older people and transport and poverty.
ICTH Presentation: .https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=e64561a74d3d
Lucy Saunders MA, MPH
Public Health Specialist
Greater London Authority
Transport for London
United Kingdom
Lucy leads the integration of transport and public health in London, working for the Greater London Authority and Transport for London (TfL). In 2014 TfL became the first transport authority in the world to publish a Health Action Plan. Lucy is responsible for the implementation of the Health Action Plan.
Previously, Lucy worked across a wide range of organisations from local to international including National Health Services, Department of Health, World Health Organisation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and private and voluntary sector organisations. She is a Fellow of the United Kingdom Faculty of Public Health, a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and an Academician for the Academy of Urbanism.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=585ad8c256e0
Public Health Specialist
Greater London Authority
Transport for London
United Kingdom
Lucy leads the integration of transport and public health in London, working for the Greater London Authority and Transport for London (TfL). In 2014 TfL became the first transport authority in the world to publish a Health Action Plan. Lucy is responsible for the implementation of the Health Action Plan.
Previously, Lucy worked across a wide range of organisations from local to international including National Health Services, Department of Health, World Health Organisation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and private and voluntary sector organisations. She is a Fellow of the United Kingdom Faculty of Public Health, a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and an Academician for the Academy of Urbanism.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=585ad8c256e0
Active Transport: Time for a New Mobility Paradigm
Zvi Leve
Urban Design Consultant Canada Zvi is a transport modeling expert with an educational background in economics, statistics, operations research and urban planning. His doctoral research on “Using parking pricing policy as a travel demand management tool” highlighted the importance of price signals in system performance. After many years of training professional planners and consultants, Zvi has decided to return to applied work. His interests focus on the linkages between transport and land use and how the transportation network influences travel behavior. When he is not spending his time evaluating the implications of large-scale infrastructure projects, he can be found promoting human-scaled cities and active transportation; specifically bicycling. He is active in numerous community groups dedicated to rethinking the role of transportation and the built environment. Zvi is Co-President of RuePublique, which is dedicated to "reimagining streets and advocating for better use of public spaces with an emphasis on community and on active, public and shared transportation alternatives." Additionally, he is a founding member of the Association of Pedestrians and Cyclists of Outremont (APC Outremont). 
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Geetam Tiwari, PhD
Coordinator - Transportation Research & Injury Prevention Programme Indian Institute of Technology Delhi MoUD Chair Professor for Transport Planning Department of Civil Engineering India Geetam has been working in the area of traffic and transport planning focusing on pedestrians, bicycles and bus systems. She has published over 75 research papers on transportation planning and safety in national and international journals and peer reviewed seminar proceedings. Edited four books on transportation planning and road safety. Received International Velocity Falco Lecture Prize, Barcelona, Spain, the Stockholm Partnerships award for local impact, innovative thinking and a potential for replication or transferability. Centre for excellence grant from Volvo Research and educational foundations(VREF), IRTE &Prince Michaels award for promoting road safety research and LMA(Lucknow Management Association) award for woman achiever, 2010. Geetam has been an advisor to Urban Age series of conferences coordinated by London School of Economics since 2005. Geetam is alsoeditor-in-chief of the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. She was Adlerbretska Guest Professor for sustainable urban transport at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2007-2010. Geetam earned a Bachelors degree in Architecture from the University of Roorkee and Masters of Urban Planning and Policy, and Ph.D. in Transport Planning and Policy, from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She has received the degree of Doctor of Technology honoris causa from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2012. | ||
National Propensity to Cycle Tool
Robin James Lovelace, PhD
Research Fellow
Consumer Data Research Centre
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
Robin is a Research Fellow at the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC), University of Leeds. His research is divided into methodological and applied work. In terms of methods, Robin is developing new methods in 'spatial microsimulation' that will make it easy to generate synthetic populations at the local level, by combining individual-level survey data with geographically aggregated count data from the Census. Robin is a skilled R user and has taught postgraduates and researchers at the national level based on his popular tutorial project 'Creating maps in R'.
During the final year of Robin's Geography degree in Bristol, he came to see climate change and energy issues as central to solving the 21st Century's intractable problems. Following the insight that energy is at the root of these issues, he completed a doctoral degree in energy and transport at the E-Futures Doctoral Training Centre in Sheffield. Since completion of his studies, Robin has been a Research Fellow in Leeds' School of Geography, working on new methods of analysing and modelling spatial data for policy evaluation with a specific aim to contribute to the evidence-base research needed to transition away from fossil fuels and towards a sustainable future.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=2fe0297d655c
Research Fellow
Consumer Data Research Centre
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
Robin is a Research Fellow at the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC), University of Leeds. His research is divided into methodological and applied work. In terms of methods, Robin is developing new methods in 'spatial microsimulation' that will make it easy to generate synthetic populations at the local level, by combining individual-level survey data with geographically aggregated count data from the Census. Robin is a skilled R user and has taught postgraduates and researchers at the national level based on his popular tutorial project 'Creating maps in R'.
During the final year of Robin's Geography degree in Bristol, he came to see climate change and energy issues as central to solving the 21st Century's intractable problems. Following the insight that energy is at the root of these issues, he completed a doctoral degree in energy and transport at the E-Futures Doctoral Training Centre in Sheffield. Since completion of his studies, Robin has been a Research Fellow in Leeds' School of Geography, working on new methods of analysing and modelling spatial data for policy evaluation with a specific aim to contribute to the evidence-base research needed to transition away from fossil fuels and towards a sustainable future.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=2fe0297d655c
James Woodcock, PhD
Senior Research Associate
Centre for Diet and Activity Research
Epidemiology Unit
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
James works as a public health modeller with particular expertise on modelling health in the transition to a low carbon transport system. James has been working at Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR) since 2011. He leads the Public Health Modelling Group at CEDAR, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. James’ work encompasses modelling health impacts and using models to help understand when we might get behaviour change. He is also the academic lead on the development of the National Propensity to Cycle Tool for the UK Department for Transport. The tool will allow users to make small area estimates of the likely uptake of cycling and corresponding health benefits under different assumptions.
James graduated with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Keble College, Oxford and then earned Master's degree in Science (MSc) in Public Policy at the University College London (UCL) where he developed an interest in public health. Following his masters he joined the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Group, working first as an editor on clinical evidence and then as an epidemiologist on a wide range of projects for external clients. During James’ time at the BMJ, he started a research degree at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). In 2009 James joined LSHTM as a lecturer in epidemiology, completing his PhD in 2010.
Senior Research Associate
Centre for Diet and Activity Research
Epidemiology Unit
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
James works as a public health modeller with particular expertise on modelling health in the transition to a low carbon transport system. James has been working at Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR) since 2011. He leads the Public Health Modelling Group at CEDAR, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. James’ work encompasses modelling health impacts and using models to help understand when we might get behaviour change. He is also the academic lead on the development of the National Propensity to Cycle Tool for the UK Department for Transport. The tool will allow users to make small area estimates of the likely uptake of cycling and corresponding health benefits under different assumptions.
James graduated with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Keble College, Oxford and then earned Master's degree in Science (MSc) in Public Policy at the University College London (UCL) where he developed an interest in public health. Following his masters he joined the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Group, working first as an editor on clinical evidence and then as an epidemiologist on a wide range of projects for external clients. During James’ time at the BMJ, he started a research degree at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). In 2009 James joined LSHTM as a lecturer in epidemiology, completing his PhD in 2010.
Out of the Tailpipe & into the Lungs
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, PhD
Research Professor Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology Spain Mark is an expert in environmental exposure assessment, epidemiology, and health risk/impact assessment. He has experience and expertise in areas of respiratory disease, cancer and reproductive health, and exposure measurement and modelling of indoor and outdoor air pollution, pesticides, green space, UV exposure, occupational allergens, chlorination by-products in drinking water and heavy metals, using new technology such as GIS, smartphones and remote sensing. Mark leads the international TAPAS study, examining the health impacts of active transport in six European cities and the EC funded PHENOTYPE (www.phenotype.eu) study, examining the relations between green space and health. He is a co-investigator in ICEPURE (www.icepure.eu), that examines exposure to and health effects of solar UV exposure, ESCAPE (www.escapeproject.eu) (and related (VE3SPA), that examines the long term health effects of air pollution, NIH funded CAVA which aims to validate smartphone based data collection methods, EC funded CITISENSE that aims to empower citizens using smartphone technology, HELIX, that’s examines the early life exposome and childhood diseases, and EC funded EXPOsOMICs that examines the air pollution and water exposome and health.
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Josias (Joe) Zietsman, PhD, PE
Division Head Environment & Air Quality Texas A&M Transportation Institute United States Joe is the Head of the Environment and Air Quality Division at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). Since joining TTI in the Spring of 1998 he has been principal investigator of numerous research projects covering the areas of air quality, sustainable transportation, performance measurement and transportation planning. He is also a member of the Graduate Faculty of Texas A&M University. In addition to his research experience, Joe has 3 years of highway construction experience and 7 years of metropolitan transportation planning experience. Joe has also written numerous technical papers and reports and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and meetings. He is also an active member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) where he Chairs the Transportation and Sustainability Committee and serves as member of the Performance Measurement and Air Quality Committee.
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Beyond the City: Transport Governance for Quality of Life
Alan Cunningham, LEED-AP, AICP
Urban & Transport Planner
Lea & Elliott Engineering
United States
Alan came to transportation planning through landscape ecology. He is a certified LEED & AICP planner with a research focus on cities that work in terms of real estate, nature and strategies to move from existing to better (not ideal or theoretical) conditions. His current work is a review of America’s transportation history and a proposal of how the US can improve its economy and transportation by allowing transit, walking and biking to affect land use as well as motor vehicle traffic. He is currently studying the political, economic and behavioral implications of this concept as a Ph.D student in transportation planning at Virginia Tech.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=49cb5be03466
Urban & Transport Planner
Lea & Elliott Engineering
United States
Alan came to transportation planning through landscape ecology. He is a certified LEED & AICP planner with a research focus on cities that work in terms of real estate, nature and strategies to move from existing to better (not ideal or theoretical) conditions. His current work is a review of America’s transportation history and a proposal of how the US can improve its economy and transportation by allowing transit, walking and biking to affect land use as well as motor vehicle traffic. He is currently studying the political, economic and behavioral implications of this concept as a Ph.D student in transportation planning at Virginia Tech.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=49cb5be03466
Luise Noring, PhD
Programme Director
Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics
Copenhagen Business School
Denmark
Luise is Programme Director for higher educational programmes focused on cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional and cross-cultural collaboration. She has built an extensive international network of universities collaborating on sustainable urbanisation research and education. Specifically, Luise has set up programmes coined Urban Challenges that are joint between CBS and a top university in a selected city. This allows teachers and students to do comparative analysis of critical urban challenges, such as air pollution, traffic congestion, cultural heritage conservation, social inclusion, etc. Learnings from one city are transferred to another and experiences are shared. A public or private stakeholder plays a key role in identifying the challenge and evaluating the project proposals. Thus, Luise is experienced in bridging and brokering between academia and business and working at the interface of the two. The most recent development is an international executive programme in Sustainable Urbanisation, which is a joint programme between Copenhagen Business School, Delft University of Technology, University of Oxford, Peking University, and INSEAD. Luise holds a Ph.D. in cross-industry partnerships and alliances from Copenhagen Business School. She has international experience with multi-cultural collaboration having spent 15 years abroad, including five years in France and four years in Argentina. Please visit: www.sustainableurbanisation.com and www.greeninnovationincities.com for further information.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=04c56139ba3b
Programme Director
Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics
Copenhagen Business School
Denmark
Luise is Programme Director for higher educational programmes focused on cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional and cross-cultural collaboration. She has built an extensive international network of universities collaborating on sustainable urbanisation research and education. Specifically, Luise has set up programmes coined Urban Challenges that are joint between CBS and a top university in a selected city. This allows teachers and students to do comparative analysis of critical urban challenges, such as air pollution, traffic congestion, cultural heritage conservation, social inclusion, etc. Learnings from one city are transferred to another and experiences are shared. A public or private stakeholder plays a key role in identifying the challenge and evaluating the project proposals. Thus, Luise is experienced in bridging and brokering between academia and business and working at the interface of the two. The most recent development is an international executive programme in Sustainable Urbanisation, which is a joint programme between Copenhagen Business School, Delft University of Technology, University of Oxford, Peking University, and INSEAD. Luise holds a Ph.D. in cross-industry partnerships and alliances from Copenhagen Business School. She has international experience with multi-cultural collaboration having spent 15 years abroad, including five years in France and four years in Argentina. Please visit: www.sustainableurbanisation.com and www.greeninnovationincities.com for further information.
ICTH Presentation: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/media/swatch?v=04c56139ba3b
Takin It to the Streets
Environmental Justice & Children: Open & Democratic Streets
Adrian Davis, PhD
Fellow with Distinction Faculty of Public Health United Kingdom Adrian is a founding member of the Transport & Health Study Group (UK). His work has focused on the health impacts of road transport, the understanding of the importance of health by transport planners, and the application of science in selecting which policies and practices most support health enhancing travel behaviours. This work has included periods in academia in public health and transport research departments, and a commercial transport consultancy. He authored the British Medical Association’s first Transport Policy report in 1997, and has drafted reports for WHO on active travel. In 2012/13 Adrian worked in London in the Department for Transport’s Sustainable Transport Directorate for 6 months to provide public health support on the economic evidence base for active travel. Adrian is the UK’s only health and transport specialist funded by a Public Health Directorate (since 2008) and placed in a Transport Department – that of Bristol City Council. He is an Assistant Editor of the Journal of Transport and Health, and a Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England.
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Jillian Roberts
Research Fellow Institute of Health Equity United Kingdom Jill is undertaking research on children’s health and development, health literacy and inequalities in the leading causes of early death. She is also the lead author of the 2014 Institute for Health Equity (IHE) report ‘Measuring what matters: a guide for children’s centres’. Before joining the IHE, Jill was a senior analyst at the NSPCC, specialising in child protection policy and research. Earlier in her career, Jill worked for Greater Manchester Police as a serious crime intelligence officer, with a focus on gun and gang crime, and later as a research officer in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Persons Unit. The UCL Institute of Health Equity is led by Professor Sir Michael Marmot and seeks to increase health equity through action on the social determinants of health, specifically in four areas: influencing global, national and local policies; advising on and learning from practice; building the evidence base; and capacity building. The Institute builds on previous work to tackle inequalities in health led by Professor Sir Michael Marmot and his team, including the ‘Commission on Social Determinants of Health’, ‘Fair Society Healthy Lives’ (The Marmot Review) and the ‘Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide for the WHO European Region’. www.instituteofhealthequity.org | ||