Healthy Places Coalition

The Healthy Places Coalition advances public health involvement in land-use and transportation planning. The coalition, which consists of practitioners from the planning, public health, parks and recreation, community advocates, and academics, strives to ensure that all neighborhoods in California promote the opportunity to live a healthy life. The coalition recognizes that local conditions and neighborhood design greatly impact community and personal wellbeing. The coalition strives to identify the ways in which land use, transportation and the built environment influence health, quality of life, physical activity, nutrition, substance abuse, injuries, mental health, violence and environmental quality. By identifying these factors, land use can be transformed in ways that increase overall health and wellbeing in the community. The Healthy Places Coalition designs and facilitates initiatives across California to connect public health to land use and transportation planning. The coalition is focused on providing solutions and effective tools that will mitigate undesirable health outcomes in the community.

The goal of the Healthy Places Coalition is to advance public health involvement in land-use and transportation planning in order to ensure that all neighborhoods in California promote the opportunity to live a healthy life.

The Healthy Places Coalition is currently involved in numerous initiatives across the state of California. These initiatives connect public health to land use and transportation planning and include Quantitative Assessment and Forecasting Tools, Health Impact Assessments, and the Integration of Health Analysis in Environmental Impacts Reports.