Professor Botchwey to Present at GIS and Health Symposium

The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), in partnership with the American Public Health Association (APHA) is hosting the 2016 GIS and Health Symposium “Mapping the Way to Healthy Communities”. Dr. Nisha Botchwey and Ph.D. candidate, Carla Jones were accepted to present at symposium on work related to the Sustainable Research Network. They will be presenting on the development of the Health, Environment, and Livability Platform for Fulton County, GA and on a project with Morehouse School of Medicine examining the relationship between cardiovascular disease, physical activity, and the built environment.

For more information about the event, please see http://www.urisa.org/URISAHealth.

Related to the Health, Environment, and Livability Platform, on May 5th, Dr. Botchwey and Ms. Jones will begin training all of the districts within Fulton County, Georgia on the Health Impact Assessment process and how they can use the Health, Environment, and Livability Platform to assist in identifying areas of need. Results from those trainings will be available shortly thereafter.

Paper Published in Journal of Infrastructure Systems

SRN Director, Anu Ramaswami, and researcher, Mark Reiner, recently published a paper in the Journal of Infrastructure Systems on What is Remedial Secondary Infrastructure? Implications for Infrastructure Design, Policy for Sustainability, and Resilience

Read More: http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000285

Virtual Forum: Elliott, Motzny and Foster discuss Water-Wastewater and Stormwater-Green Infrastructure, Pt. 2

Join us Friday, 4/21, for a discussion on: Water-Wastewater and Stormwater-Green Infrastructure, Pt.2: Research on Environment, Health, and Well-Being for Urban Green Infrastructure

Led by: Robert Elliott and Amy Motzny (Columbia University, Advisor: Dr. Patricia Culligan) & Alec Foster (University of Michigan, Advisor: Josh Newell)

Friday April 21, 2:30 to 4:30 PM Central

To view or join the discussion on Friday: Join Here, Access Code: 383-419-437.

These lectures and discussions are part of a course offered by the MSSTEP Program and the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable Healthy Cities: Design and Policy.