|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Story Archive by Date Added
- Vitamin D Update
by Rufus Greenbaum - My Time At St Heliers Hospital
by Mohammed Hasan - Judy Mbuthia-First Heart2Heart Beneficiary
by Christine Simon - Pensioners' playground opens at Hyde Park
by Ana Gomes - Oral Health, General Health?
by Azam Sandhu - Have a sugarless vacation with diabetclub for your
by Diabet Club - GDA NO WAY - your help is needed
by Morten Strunge Meyer - The Heart & Stroke Foundation SA's Tuck Shop Progr
by Shan Biesman-Simons - VAT on Junk Food
by Parveen Bhalla - District Nursing 150th
by Matthew Bradby - Sandile Sibeko
by Sandile Sibeko - Workshop for Healthy workplaces
by Parveen Bhalla - World Heart Day Celebrations
by Parveen Bhalla - Conference on Promoting Healthy Interventions
by Tammy Boyce - Promoting Healthy Interventions
by Tammy Boyce - A Son Takes Action to Fulfill a Final Promise to
by David Fajgenbaum - British American Tobaccos African footprint
by Debbie Millward - International Information Exchange
by Sara Karrar - The Isfahan Healthy Heart (IHHP) Course
by Sara Karrar - Air pollution control in IHHP
by Mehrdad Yazdani - Toolkits for Change
by Zoe Stanton - Healthy Living Lab
by Mary Cook - South Africa: Drive to Stub Out Smoking Among the
by Samia Omar - Nigeria: Tobacco Companies Don't Deserve Tax Waive
by Samia Omar - Mozambique: New Tobacco Regulations Take Effect
by Samia Omar - Cigarette smoking in Kampala and Malawi
by Samia Omar - My field of interest in health/urban design; my fi
by Randa Abu-Youssef - Public Health Planner
by Lindsey Cox - about me
by Zdravko Trivic - Flip flopped
by Lisa Sykes - my introduction
by Gao Xiangyang - THE URBAN DIMENSION OF HOLISTIC AND SUSTAINABLE EN
by JOSHUA NDOLI - cherry what you have got
by ENOMAH DAVID - A Foolish Thing
by Tetyana Bohdanova - My 1st Day in DCE
by Saurabh Rustagi - IHHP/Harvard Video Conference on Healthy Nutrition
by Mehrdad Yazdani - International Training Course on NCD
by Mehrdad Yazdani - Lagos State Initiative to Fight Chronic Disease
by KINGSLEY AKINROYE - Youth for Health: Global Health Promotion for Yout
by Saurabh Rustagi - Lecture to Kolkata Institute of Chemical Biology a
by Justin Zaman - Code Blue: Baby Boy
by Jedilou Alip - Motivation vs. information
by Gregers Rosdahl - Who I Am and What I Do in OxHA
by Eva Olhoff - Nairobi Middle Class' Secret to 'Eternal Youth'
by Ogova Ondego - Youth Advocacy Workshop
by Anja Nielsen - Breaking the silence: a video
by Karen Siegel - A different point of view...
by Dale Wightman - The Miracle of the Crab Pot
by Susan Raines - Smoking, Dieting and Childhood Trauma
by Barbara Whitfield - Tribute to chronic disease victim
by Nawi Ng - Does smoking add to my health?
by Zablon Kenga Munga - Yo Girls
by Carolyn Vicencio - There is Nothing Wrong With Me
by Christi Nielsen - The Beautiful Woman
by Rukayatu Ibrahim - A Foolish Thing
by Tetyana Bohdanova - Going Green
by Stephanie Sta. Maria - Malnutritition in urban East Africa
by Ogova Ondego - Cigarette Smoking in Kenya
by John Muchangi - World’s Apart
by Jennifer Leal - Island Fast Food Health Crisis – Can It Be Helped?
by Jayda McTyson - Grieving for an Old Friend
by John Irvine - You are You, a peephole to Infinity
by Celeste Onorati - Earl Collins' Unangry Ways
by Richard Walton - Dr Atkins Forever!
by John Irvine - Dirty Secrets
by Vanessa Johnson - The Real Reason for Mental Hospital Corridors
by C Rogers - Diet... You Can Lose Weight
by Chin Pen Len - A Loyal Customer
by Angelina Davydova - Ah Guinness
by C May - A Slap on Smoking!
by Mohinder Bhatnagar - A Choc off the Old Block
by Maureen Irvine
Public Health Planner
by Lindsey Cox, United States of America
I grew up in Elk Grove, California, which was deemed America's fastest
growing city of more than 100,000 people in 2006. Witnessing rapid
urbanization led to my interest in sustainable community design. My
undergraduate academic experiences understanding the public’s health
through a Human Biology minor, and learning how to guide sustainable
community growth through an Urban Studies major further sparked my
interest in how to design healthy communities. Throughout university
and after graduation, I worked for the California Center for Physical
Activity, a program of the California Department of Health Services,
coordinating the Center's Walk to School, Walkable Community Workshops
and Home Zones projects to promote safe and active lifestyles through
community design.
Seeking to build upon my professional experiences promoting community
design principles that provide opportunities for physical activity, I
am currently a Masters student in the Department of Society, Human
Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Through
the masters degree, I am learning how to analyze health behavior and
develop methods to promote healthy community design. I am currently
working on a case study on childhood obesity prevention, and also
conduct research with the Harvard Prevention Research Center on federal
transportation funding and health.
My research interests focus on how to make residential environments
healthy, using the example of the woonerf model developed in the
Netherlands. Utilizing unique design features such as gateways, shared
surfaces, traffic calming measures, landscaping, and visual evidence of
neighborhood living can help slow traffic and increase residential
social interaction in neighborhoods.
Back to the stories home page | Send to a friend
Post your Comments
Please note: if this is your first time posting comments on the website you will be required to register on this site before your comments are made live.
If you find any comments on this page offensive or unsuitable please email us and let us know.