Upcoming Events
Feb. 3-5: 10th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference (Charlotte, NC). The program will include new research, implementation tools and techniques, best practices, model projects, policies and codes, coordinated networking activities, and interactive learning experiences.
April 3-5, 2011: Brownfields Conference (Philadelphia) is a national conference focused on environmental revitalization and economic redevelopment.
June 20-23, 2011: National Healthy Homes Conference (Denver) is a federally-sponsored event bringing together a wide range of sectors to better coordinate efforts in making housing healthy, safe, and environmentally sustainable.
June 26 - July 1, 2011: The Built Environment Assessment Training (BEAT-Plus) Institute (Seattle) is a week-long institute designed to train investigators and practitioners in tangible skills that can be used to measure many of the aspects of the built environment that are believed to have an effect on health.
In the last few years, a new understanding of the built environment’s impact on health has brought the public health community and planners together to develop a variety of innovative land use policies that promote health.