Transport networks in the UK contribute to a number of health hazards and health inequalities in both urban and rural areas. Poverty and disadvantage is strongly correlated with air pollution, noise and road collisions. Vulnerable groups such as children, the elderly, people with mental disability or long-term illnesses are also more exposed to the health-related externalities of the transport system.
However, transport and spatial planning can be powerful tools for improving the conditions that influence health. Using these tools effectively requires engagement with the public health evidence base, the technical aspects of planning and integrated community development approaches that promote active travel and well-connected places.
WHY ATTEND?
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Environmental pollution and physical inactivity are key health risks, yet recent research outcomes remain hopeful. Studies show that the evidence for positive impacts related to increasing physical activity is encouraging, especially for town and city-wide interventions.
Addressing health in communities means ensuring that all professionals involved in shaping the built environment, and the embedded transport options that help people go about their daily activities, are working towards promoting healthy lifestyles.
This event is for:
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Transport and urban planners
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Population and public health professionals
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Public transport professionals
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Highways and transport engineers
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Active travel professionals
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Data and modelling experts
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Marketing and behaviour change professionals
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Directors of strategy and services
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Academics and researchers
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Community groups and campaigners
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Transport technologists
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New mobility pioneers
PROGRAMME
Please note programme is currently in development
08.45
Registration
Tea and coffee served in the exhibition area
09.45
Room
OPENING PLENARY
The healthy places agenda – delivering better in a devolved – and newly different – political landscape
Welcome from Sir Peter Soulsby, City Mayor, Leiecester City Council
Greg Fell, President, Association of Directors of Public Health and Director of Public Health, Sheffield City Council
Followed by a panel discussion and audience Q+A - panellists to be announced
11.15
Morning break
Tea and coffee served in the exhibition area
11.45
Room
BREAKOUT SESSION 1
From mode-based transport planning to place-based policymaking
Addressing major
cross-sector challenges: identifying win-win-win solutions
Peter Jones, Professor, Centre for Transport Studies, University College London
Developing a Regional Health and Transport Framework for the West Midlands
Nancy Towers, Senior Policy Officer, West Midlands Combined Authority
People before projects: a new approach to Integrated Transport
Oli Davey, Urban Movement
Room
BREAKOUT SESSION 2
Reducing transport inequality
Low cost and high impact steps to boost active travel
Eleanor Roaf, Deputy Chair of the Climate Change Committee, Faculty of Public Health
Disability: impacts for transport policy
Jenny MIndell, Emerita Professor of Public Health, University College London
Room
BREAKOUT SESSION 3
Integrated transport and SEND
Digital innovation in health and SEND transport: exploring how technology and digitisation can improve non-emergency patient transport, SEND journeys and accessibility, including:
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Digitisation of transport booking and coordination
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Improving passenger experience and quality of life
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Supporting carers and families through journey visibility and tracking
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Integration with NHS systems and services
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Data, efficiency and operational outcomes
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NHS case studies and practical delivery examples
13.15
Lunch break
Refreshments served in the exhibition area
14.15
Room
BREAKOUT SESSION 4
Spatial planning, health, and transport
Led by Michael Chang, Associate Town Planner (Healthy Planning Lead), NHS Property Services and Visiting Professor, University of the West of England WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments
Room
BREAKOUT SESSION 5
Poster expo
Room
BREAKOUT SESSION 6
How health and SEND transport will change: case studies
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Shared transport services across health, social care and SEND – Total Transport revisited: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/total-transport-feasibility-report-and-pilot-review
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Flexibility and convenience: Personal Travel Budgets, voucher schemes, Independent Travel Training
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Focus on safeguarding, standards and the future regulatory framework (regulation, safety and accountability within vulnerable passenger transport)
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Public trust, accessibility and passenger confidence
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Perspectives from operators, local authorities, carers and service users
15.30
Afternoon break
Tea and coffee served in the exhibition area
16.00
Room
CLOSING PLENARY
Aligning visions when political perspectives widen
17.00
Event close
SPEAKERS
Confirmed speakers will appear here
Sir Peter Soulsby
City Mayor
Leicester City Council
Eleanor Roaf
Deputy Chair of the Climate Change Committee
Faculty of Public Health
Rob Howard
Director of Public Health
Leicester City Council
Peter Jones
Professor of Transport and Sustainable Development
University College London
Greg Fell OBE
President, Association of Directors of Public Health and Director of Public Health
Sheffield City Council
Belen Zapata-Diomedi
Senior Researcher Associate
University of Cambridge
Nancy Towers
Senior Policy Officer
West Midlands Combined Authority
Oliver Davey
Co-Founder + Projects Director
Urban Movement
Jenny Mindell
Emerita Professor of Public Health
University College London
Michael Chang
Associate Town Planner (Healthy Planning Lead)
NHS Property Services
James Woodcock
Professor of Public Health and Simulation
Loughborough University
Jon Sandford
Senior Manager,
MasterPlanning
Design and Development
Homes England
EVENT SUPPORTERS
The Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) is the membership body for Directors of Public Health (DsPH) in the UK. It represents the professional views of all DsPH as the local leaders for the nation’s health.
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The Transport and Health Science Group (THSG) is an independent group of global public health and transport practitioners and researchers. It is committed to understanding and addressing the links between transport policies and health and promoting a healthy transport system.
Its aim is to identify and promote the evidence base for policy and advocacy objectives that will enable a healthier and sustainable transport system.
Membership of THSG is open to anyone interested in the effects of transport and health. See the benefits of joining THSG, and how to join here.
