学术报告 Seminar
报告人：Jonathan Patz
报告题目：Public Health and the Urban Built Environment
Abstract: In both China and the United States, there has been a steady increase in chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and strokes. These stem, in large part from unhealthy behaviors including poor diet, smoking, and urban design-especially with regard to transportation by vehicles with the internal combustion engine and urban sprawl’s greater distances required to travel. These factors make “active transport”(by walking or biking)less convenient, and as a result, promote unhealthy sedentary lifestyles. This presentation will review some examples of poorly designed urban features, and detail a case studies of how low-carbon transportation in the Midwest US and other parts of the world can yield tremendous benefits to human health and cost savings for local government.
时间: 10月21日（周日）上午10:30-11:30
地点：教学楼315教室
Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, is Professor& Director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, He Co-chaired the health expert panel of the US National Assessment on Climate Change and was a Convening Lead Author for the United Nations/World Bank Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. For the past 15 years, Dr. Patz has been a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-the organization that shared the 2007Noble Peace Prize with AI Gore.
资源与环境学院
College of Resources & Environment
