Programming note: The Honolulu City Council Transportation Committee is holding a special meeting this morning starting at 9:30 a.m.

This is the only agenda item:

1. PRESENTATION BY DR. RICHARD JACKSON ON “YOUR HEALTH AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT.”

Jackson, it seems is a professor and chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA‘s School of Public Health. Here’s his official bio:

While in California he helped establish the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program and state and national laws to reduce risks from pesticides, especially to farm workers and to children. While at CDC he established the national asthma epidemiology and control program, oversaw the childhood lead poisoning prevention program, and instituted the federal effort to “biomonitor” chemical levels in the US population. In the late 1990s he was the CDC leader in establishing the US National Pharmaceutical Stockpile to prepare for terrorism and other disasters—which was activated on September 11, 2001. He has received the Breast Cancer Fund’s Hero Award, as well as Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Public Health Law Association, and the New Partners for Smart Growth. Dick Jackson lectures and speaks on many issues, particularly those related to built environment and health. He co-authored two Island Press Books: Urban Sprawl and Public Health in 2004 and Making Healthy Places published in August, 2011. He will host a 2012 public television special Designing Healthy Communities which links to a separate book by the same name published by J Wiley & Sons in October, 2011. He has served on many environmental and health boards, as well as the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects. He was the 2005 UCLA SPH commencement speaker: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/staging/finalsite/students_keynote.html