Public Health and Land Use Planning

Land use and public health professionals develop a framework for understanding the public health impacts of land use decisions. Learn about the historic and present connections between planning and public health and the most recent efforts by public health to inform land use policy and practice. Delve into projects at the state and local public health department level and hear from practitioners at both levels. Examine new tools that local public health departments have devised to work collaboratively with land use and transportation planners. Apply your experience through the public health lens on specific project examples. 

This course is designed for land use planners, city managers and planning commissioners interested in improving the public health of their communities and working with their own public health departments. Public health and health professionals interested in reducing chronic disease through environmental policy, programs and design will also benefit.

This course is not currently scheduled.
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