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Dr. Rajiv Bhatia on "The Struggle for Sustainable Transportation: What Can Public Health Contribute?"

Friday, March 7. Noon in 601A Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley. Open to the public, and free.

Dr. Rajiv Bhatia, M.D., M.PH., Director of Occupational & Environmental Health for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and an assistant clinical professor of medicine at UCSF, will describe his department's Program on Urban Health and Place. Bhatia believes that public health thinking and methods can make important contributions to transportation and land use planning and policy making, helping to simultaneously achieve environmental, social, and health goals. Since 2003, the Program on Urban Health and Place at the San Francisco Department of Public Health has been pursuing inter-disciplinary strategies to evaluate and shape local land use and transportation policy to meet the needs of human health. Bhatiawill share the Program's efforts on two strategic objectives, the assessment and mitigation of vehicle-pedestrian collisions and reform of conventional transportation performance metrics. Bhatia will also describe how new analytic tools being developed at the Department such as the San Francisco Pedestrian Collision Model can support healthy transportation goals. Download PDF of flyer.

Directions: Wurster Hall houses the College of Environmental Design. The Noon Traffic Safety Seminar is an informal, brown bag lunch event, open to all interested transportation and planning students. Take the main elevator to the sixth floor, go through room 601 and walk all the way to the back to 601A.

If you have a traffic safety-related research project you'd like to present at one of this season's seminars, or you'd like more information or materials on a previous seminar, please contact us.