The TPH Link is excited to partner with the University College London to host the 1st International Conference on Transport & Health
Karyn Warsow, Founder & Executive Director of the TPH Link and Jenny Mindell, UCL (University College London) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transport and Health will co-host the 1st International Conference on Transport & Health to be held in London, England, 6-8 July 2015.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller
The 1st International Conference on Transport and Health has been 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 beyond will convene on the UCL (University College London) campus to share their stories of success and failure; build world-wide collaborative friendships; but most importantly, leave inspired!
Throughout this three-day conference experience, interactive ‘Hot Topic Workshops’ will kick-off delegate oral and poster sessions. Each workshop will be led by a cross-disciplinary team of international experts to demonstrate how non-traditional thinking can lead to creative problem solving. There will also be a series of business-related workshops that are meant as a twist to the traditional transport or health conference proceedings. In these sessions, you will learn that to be an effective innovator of change, you MUST think like an entrepreneur.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller
The 1st International Conference on Transport and Health has been 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 beyond will convene on the UCL (University College London) campus to share their stories of success and failure; build world-wide collaborative friendships; but most importantly, leave inspired!
Throughout this three-day conference experience, interactive ‘Hot Topic Workshops’ will kick-off delegate oral and poster sessions. Each workshop will be led by a cross-disciplinary team of international experts to demonstrate how non-traditional thinking can lead to creative problem solving. There will also be a series of business-related workshops that are meant as a twist to the traditional transport or health conference proceedings. In these sessions, you will learn that to be an effective innovator of change, you MUST think like an entrepreneur.
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The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking.
It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
- Albert Einstein
University College London
UCL (University College London) is a research university in London, England. Founded in 1826 as London University, UCL was the first university institution established in London and the first in England to be entirely secular, to admit students regardless of their religion, and to admit women on equal terms with men. The philosopher Jeremy Bentham is commonly regarded as the spiritual father of UCL, as his radical ideas on education and society were the inspiration to its founders, although his direct involvement in its foundation was limited. UCL became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London in 1836. It has grown through mergers, including with the Institute of Neurology, the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, the Eastman Dental Institute, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and the School of Pharmacy.
UCL is regarded as one of the world's most prestigious universities. There are 28 Nobel Prize winners and three Fields Medalists amongst UCL's alumni and current and former staff. UCL alumni include the "Father of the Nation" of each of India, Kenya and Mauritius, the inventor of the telephone, and one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. All five of the naturally-occurring noble gases were discovered at UCL by William Ramsay. UCL is part of three of the 11 biomedical research centres established by the NHS in England and is a founding member of the Francis Crick Institute and UCL Partners, the world's largest academic health science centre. UCL has hundreds of research and teaching partnerships, including a strategic alliance with the Institute of Education and a major collaboration with Yale University, the Yale UCL Collaborative. For more information, please visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk
UCL (University College London) is a research university in London, England. Founded in 1826 as London University, UCL was the first university institution established in London and the first in England to be entirely secular, to admit students regardless of their religion, and to admit women on equal terms with men. The philosopher Jeremy Bentham is commonly regarded as the spiritual father of UCL, as his radical ideas on education and society were the inspiration to its founders, although his direct involvement in its foundation was limited. UCL became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London in 1836. It has grown through mergers, including with the Institute of Neurology, the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, the Eastman Dental Institute, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and the School of Pharmacy.
UCL is regarded as one of the world's most prestigious universities. There are 28 Nobel Prize winners and three Fields Medalists amongst UCL's alumni and current and former staff. UCL alumni include the "Father of the Nation" of each of India, Kenya and Mauritius, the inventor of the telephone, and one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. All five of the naturally-occurring noble gases were discovered at UCL by William Ramsay. UCL is part of three of the 11 biomedical research centres established by the NHS in England and is a founding member of the Francis Crick Institute and UCL Partners, the world's largest academic health science centre. UCL has hundreds of research and teaching partnerships, including a strategic alliance with the Institute of Education and a major collaboration with Yale University, the Yale UCL Collaborative. For more information, please visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk
A Heart-Felt 'Thank You' to Our Sponsors!! |
Delegates will be welcomed to the 1st International Conference on Transport & Health by a London Double-Decker Bus parked outside of the main entrance.
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Transportation Public Health Link
The Transportation Public Health Link (TPH Link) is a global company based on a systematic problem solving approach; this process has the flexibility to account for individual determinants of health acting at different levels. In this manner, an upstream perspective is used to understand the impact of a proposed transportation project on quality of life. Thus, decisions regarding the planning and development of a project, whether it is a complete street to promote walkability and community place making, an Interstate or non-Interstate highway, a public-private partnership toll facility, a protected bike path or an intermodal facility connection, all result in changes to social (health), political, economic and environmental sustainability. These elements of sustainability should not be addressed individually, but in synergy by way of evidence-based science; funding allocations, project delivery alternatives and performance metrics of accountability to ensure a multi-dimensional process that places people first.
The TPH Link supports the inclusion of a cross-disciplinary team of professionals in the design, planning and development of proposed and rehabilitated transportation infrastructure project. In this way, quantitative and qualitative research, performance metrics, and strategic management methodologies from multiple disciplines are implemented to effectively evaluate the health impact of a proposed transportation project in the affected community. As funding streams continue to shrink and the demand for accountability and improvements in operational efficiencies increase, it is imperative for transportation to partner with nontraditional disciplines to devise innovative ideas that meet the health and transportation needs of a growing population. Join us on LinkedIn http://goo.gl/Asjkao and on Twitter @TPHLink
The Transportation Public Health Link (TPH Link) is a global company based on a systematic problem solving approach; this process has the flexibility to account for individual determinants of health acting at different levels. In this manner, an upstream perspective is used to understand the impact of a proposed transportation project on quality of life. Thus, decisions regarding the planning and development of a project, whether it is a complete street to promote walkability and community place making, an Interstate or non-Interstate highway, a public-private partnership toll facility, a protected bike path or an intermodal facility connection, all result in changes to social (health), political, economic and environmental sustainability. These elements of sustainability should not be addressed individually, but in synergy by way of evidence-based science; funding allocations, project delivery alternatives and performance metrics of accountability to ensure a multi-dimensional process that places people first.
The TPH Link supports the inclusion of a cross-disciplinary team of professionals in the design, planning and development of proposed and rehabilitated transportation infrastructure project. In this way, quantitative and qualitative research, performance metrics, and strategic management methodologies from multiple disciplines are implemented to effectively evaluate the health impact of a proposed transportation project in the affected community. As funding streams continue to shrink and the demand for accountability and improvements in operational efficiencies increase, it is imperative for transportation to partner with nontraditional disciplines to devise innovative ideas that meet the health and transportation needs of a growing population. Join us on LinkedIn http://goo.gl/Asjkao and on Twitter @TPHLink
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Additional Information (Please refer to the individual conference webpages for details) Every effort is being made to ensure that there are plenty of opportunities to make this nontraditional conference affordable in addition to being a wonderful networking and learning experience! For example (subject to change based on availability):
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