Making Places for Thriving People

Frumkin, Howard

Title:

Making Places for Thriving People

dc.contributor.author	Frumkin, Howard
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	University of Washington. School of Public Health	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-17T14:31:07Z
dc.date.available	2014-06-17T14:31:07Z
dc.date.issued	2014-06-02
dc.description	Presented at the Frederick Law Olmsted Symposium on June 2, 2014 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.	en_US
dc.description	Howard Frumkin is Dean, and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, at the University of Washington School of Public Health. Dr. Frumkin is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist, who has worked in academia and public service. From 2005 to 2010 he held leadership roles at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, first as director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), and later as Special Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health. During his tenure NCEH/ATSDR created programs in in Climate Change and in Healthy Community Design; launched training programs for college students, doctoral students, and post-docs; expanded its Biomonitoring and Environmental Public Health Tracking programs; and launched its NationalConversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures. From 1990 to 2005, he was Professor and Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Emory Medical School. Dr. Frumkin currently serves on the Boards of the U.S. Green Building Council, the Bullitt Foundation, the Children and Nature Network, the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute, and the Washington Global Health Alliance, on the Executive Committee for the Regional Open Space Strategy for Central Puget Sound, on Procter & Gamble’s Sustainability Expert Advisory Panel, and on Advisory Boards for the Yale Climate and Energy Institute, the National Sustainable Communities Coalition, Green Chemistry Center Northwest, the Partnership for Active Transportation, and the Center for Design and Health at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. He previously served on the national Board of Directors of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), where he co-chaired the Environment Committee; as president of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC); as chair of the Science Board of the American Public Health Association (APHA); on the National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors; on the Board of the National Environmental Education Foundation; on the National Research Council Committee on Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government, on the Washington Department of Ecology Toxics Reduction Strategy Group, and on Seattle’s Green Ribbon Commission. As a member of EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee, he chaired the Smart Growth and Climate Change work groups. A graduate of the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership, he was named Environmental Professional of the Year by the Georgia Environmental Council in 2004. His research interests include public health aspects of the built environment, climate change, energy policy, and nature contact; toxic effects of chemicals; and environmental health policy. He is the author or co-author of over 200 scientific journal articles and chapters, and his books include Urban Sprawl and Public Health (Island Press, 2004, co-authored with Larry Frank and Dick Jackson; named a Top Ten Book of 2005 by Planetizen, the Planning and Development Network), Emerging Illness and Society (Johns Hopkins Press, 2004, co-edited with Randall Packard, Peter Brown, and Ruth Berkelman), Environmental Health: From Global to Local (Jossey-Bass, 2005 and 2010), Safe and Healthy School Environments (Oxford University Press, 2006, co-edited with Leslie Rubin and Robert Geller), Green Healthcare Institutions: Health, Environment, Economics (National Academies Press, 2007, co-edited with Christine Coussens), and Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability (Island Press, 2011, co-edited with Andrew Dannenberg and Dick Jackson). Dr. Frumkin received his A.B. from Brown University, his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. from Harvard, his Internal Medicine training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Cambridge Hospital, and his Environmental and Occupational Medicine training at Harvard. He is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and in Environmental and Occupational Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Collegium Ramazzini and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He is married to radio journalist Joanne Silberner, and has two children, Gabe (26), a political campaign worker, and Amara (21), a Yale undergraduate. Urban River Parkways as Routes to Health. An Olmsted legacy reviving from 20th Century coma.
dc.description	Runtime: 20:22 minutes
dc.description.abstract	This symposium is a celebration of the creation of the Frederick Law Olmsted Chair in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It serves as a special opportunity to gather in one place leading experts in the area of sustainable urban infrastructure for a discussion of state of the art research and practice as it relates to the theme of this unique Endowed Chair. Each speaker will touch upon topics that are different, yet complementary in the following thematic areas: Public Health, Urban Ecology, Transportation, Risk & Resilience, and Public Policy.	en_US
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dc.format.extent	20:22 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52002
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Frederick Law Olmsted Symposium
dc.subject	Evidence-based design	en_US
dc.subject	Happiness	en_US
dc.subject	Health	en_US
dc.subject	Olmsted symposium	en_US
dc.title	Making Places for Thriving People	en_US
dc.title.alternative	The Frederick Law Olmsted Symposium (2014)	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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