Faculty Lightning Talks on Future of Healthy Cities | Michigan Public Health presents The Exchange

Four University of Michigan School of Public Health faculty members provided 10-minute presentations on emerging scholarship in creating healthy and equitable cities.
Rick Neitzel, professor of Environmental Health Sciences: Addressing environmental injustice in Detroit: Noise before and after a freeway redesign
Alison Miller, professor of Health Behavior and Health Education: Place-Based Approach to Healthy Ypsi: Redesigning the Community-Based Ypsilanti Health Center Pediatric Clinic
Jiyeon Song, research fellow in Biostatistics: Developing a Spatio-Temporal Model to Assess the Impact of Greening Projects on Crime Reduction
Paul Fleming, associate professor of Health Behavior and Health Education: Improving urban health with unarmed non-police response programs: The CARE in Cities Project
The Exchange: Critical Conversations with Michigan Public Health debuted in the Fall of 2023 by exploring the topic of The Future of Healthy Cities.
The programming was created with Lu Wang, professor of biostatistics, and Roshanak Medhipanah, associate professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, who co-lead Public Health IDEAS for Creating Healthy and Equitable Cities. Public Health IDEAS is a research initiative at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, with IDEAS representing Interdisciplinary Discovery, Engagement + Actions for Society.
Read more about The Exchange at publichealth.umich.edu/the-exchange.
Read more about Public Health IDEAS at publichealth.umich.edu/ideas