The Public Health Side of Rural Transportation
July Webinar
Availability Status: Archived
- Created: Tuesday May 31st, 2016
- Source: El Paso County, CO, Clackamas County, OR, Injury Prevention Center, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth
- Provider: National Center for Rural Road Safety
- Topic: Education, EMS, Enforcement, Engineering, Road, Road User, Safety Culture
- Sub-Topic: Cross Jurisdictional Safety Planning, Enforcement Laws and Policies, Injury Prevention, Occupant Protection, Roles and Responsibilities for Elected Officials, Safety Plans
- Skill Level: Basic, Intermediate
- Sector: Local, State, Federal, Tribal
- Profession: Engineers, Educators, Enforcement, EMS, Planners, Politicians, Policy makers
- Training Format: Training Webinar
- Duration: 1.5 Hours
Description/Learning Outcomes:
The National Center for Rural Road Safety (Safety Center) hosted a FREE, 1.5 hour online training event.
This Safety Center sponsored webinar explored the public health side of rural transportation safety. In this unique webinar, the Safety Center hosted a question and answer roundtable with four experts that represented different facets of the public health side of rural transportation safety. These roundtable experts included:
- Joe Marek, Clackamas County, OR Engineer
- As a county engineer, he included public health in their local safety plan
- Sallie Clark, El Paso County, CO Commissioner and NACo President
- As a county elected official, she has developed NACo’s Safe and Secure Initiative which focuses on counties’ capacities to enhance public safety and public health
- Howard Hedegard, Highway Safety Specialist, Injury Prevention Center, Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth
- As a highway safety specialist, he has a lead role in NH’s teen driver peer to peer program including issues such as seat belt use and distracted driving
- Robert Morones, Injury prevention program at Indian Health Service
- As an injury prevention specialist at the Indian Health Service, he is an expert at assisting Tribes with their traffic safety and injury prevention programs
- Download: Webinar Slides View .PDF (625.52K)
- Download: McLoughlin Road Safety Audit View .PDF (1.77M)
- Download: Clackamas Health Impact Assessment Report View .PDF (5.95M)
- Download: Clackamas County Transportation Safety Action Plan View .PDF (6.19M)
- External Link: Webinar Recording
- External Link: Evaluation link (to receive CEUs or certificate of completion for this webinar, you MUST fill out this evaluation)