Shaping Healthy Environments

Shaping Healthy Environments

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Panelists:

Victor Colman, JD, Senior Policy Advisor, Community and Family Health, Office
of the Assistant Secretary, Washington Department of Health, Seattle, WA
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David Goldberg, MS, Director of Communications, Smart Growth America; Adjunct, Journalism Faculty, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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Delores Pluto, , PhD, Associate Director, Prevention Research Center, Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
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Moderator: Angela McGowan, JD, MPH, Public Health Law Fellow, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, Atlanta, GA
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Learning Objectives:

Outline legal and policy issues related to encouraging a healthy environment and that focus on the built environment and smart growth, school policies and nutrition and physical activity policies and laws;
Describe legal tools and policies that can be also used to create environments that stimulate research activity; and
Identify and address obstacles to developing and using such tools.

Resource Material:

TBD

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