Promoting Equity through Health, Transportation, and Collaboration
Promoting Equity through Health, Transportation, and Collaboration
The purpose of this project was to catalyze a community of practice that brought together infrastructure, environment, and public health professionals and community stakeholders to better address health equity through infrastructure planning. It included multisectoral design and delivery of a session at the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2017 Annual Meeting, a networking event and bus tour, and a capacity-building component. The APHA session, Promoting Equity Through Health, Transportation, and Other Infrastructure Collaborations, was jointly planned and organized by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Georgia Health Policy Center. The session was followed by a bus and walking tour of multisector infrastructure projects in Atlanta that have impacted health equity. Finally, working with community partner ECO-Action, the project assessed capacity development for community-based organizations and identified funding practices to increase collaboration between the public health, environment, and infrastructure sectors and stakeholders and to integrate health and equity into infrastructure decision-making.