Footprints & Bike Tracks Conference
Bicycling & Walking: Transportation for this Millennium
Call for Abstracts - Due May 8
Washington State's
biennial conference devoted to increasing awareness of walking and bicycling
will be October 10 -12, 2001 at the WestCoast Olympia Hotel. Conference planners
are seeking abstracts for presentations for this year's workshop tracks:
· Advocacy for Social Change
· Planning & Design
· Implementation & Promotion
Conference attendees will include citizen advocates, non-profit organizations,
public health and workplace wellness professionals, and local elected officials.
A special effort is being made to increase participation by developers,
investors and financial institutions.
Brief abstracts (500 words or less) are due May 8, 2001. Include a separate
title sheet attached to the abstract with the following information: title of
the presentation, your name, title, company or agency affiliation, address, and
phone number. Send these to Barbara Culp, Executive Director, Bicycle Alliance
of Washington, P.O. Box 2904, Seattle, WA 98111, (206) 224-9252 or FAX (206)
224-9254 or bculp@bicyclealliance.org. Selection will be based upon relevance to
the conference theme and tracks, originality, and the number of abstracts
received.
Teach a Feature
Using the H.E.R.E. Listserves
Listserves can be a great
resource for networking and sharing information. They are a kind of group email
for people with the same interests. H.E.R.E. has compiled a list of established
local, regional and national listserves that can be useful in your health
education practice. We provide a short description, who hosts the service, and
instructions on how to subscribe—they’re all free, but you have to send your
name to the “list administrator.”
While regional and national listserves focusing on health education are
available, we have heard from a number of people in Washington’s public health
agencies that they would like a list devoted specifically to health education in
Washington’s state and local public health settings.
Reader’s Poll: If we set up a listserve for staff in local health
departments/districts and DOH who conduct health education activities, would you
sign on? To vote, use this form Reader's Poll.
If you’ve never been part of a listserve, check out the H.E.R.E. “netiquette”
page—a kind of Ms. Manners for online discussion groups. There is also a page of
Q and A’s about listserves. As always, if you know of a listserve that others
would find useful, drop us a line at
HERE@doh.wa.gov.
Mentor of the Month
Dan Moran
Dan is dedicated to working for a future of healthier people and healthier
communities. His advice to professionals entering into public health is,
"Don't be afraid to test many pathways within public health service. Don't
feel the need to follow a certain prescribed career trajectory." He
encourages people to talk with a variety of public health professionals from
a variety of disciplines, hear their stories, and learn from their mistakes
and successes. Dan stresses, "Once you commit to a particular path, engage
in change with resilience and optimism." Dan sees our future challenge in
public health as coping with ever broadening mandates with fewer dollars and
staff to accomplish them. He suggests we will need to become even better at
using epidemiological and environmental data to refocus current programs and
advocate, when necessary, for new programs or resources.
Dan's outside pleasures include raising his three daughters (ages 11, 8 and
6), taking them to YMCA camp-outs, skiing and camping. He finds himself
dreaming of tropical beach vacations— and gets there every once in awhile.
His expertise includes environmental health practice, policy and planning.
Specific topics he has experience with include solid waste and hazardous
materials management, indoor air quality, asthma management, and lead
poisoning prevention. Dan can be reached by email
dan.moran@metrokc.gov or
by phone 206-296-4731.
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