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Dear colleagues As part of our Cycling@Lunchtime series, on Tuesday 12th May at 12.45pm, Lucy Saunders will offer her ten reasons why ‘Public Health’ doesn’t seem to be championing the cycling agenda. Details and booking are here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/transport-institute/events. Public Health staff, budgets and responsibilities returned from the NHS to Local Authorities in March 2013. It was widely expected this would make it much easier to implement Active Travel policies with Public Health putting their weight behind a step-change in activity to meet the physical inactivity challenge. But so far transport planners and advocates have been disappointed. Lucy has worked in both public health teams and transport teams and will offer ten possible factors (personal, structural, cultural and political) that are contributing to the current situation. Lucy Saunders FFPH works for both TfL and the GLA as Public Health Specialist (Transport & Public Realm). You may also be interested in another lecture taking place this Friday (1st May) at 4pm for which some spaces remain – High visibility and cycling - balancing safety and culture, given by Dr Glen Koorey of University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Details and booking are here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/transport-institute/events. Best wishes Tom Tom Cohen PhD │ Deputy Director │ UCL Transport Institute University College London Chadwick Building Gower Street London WC1E 6BT 020 7679 2276 (internal: 32276) 07504 402113 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.ucl.ac.uk/transport-institute<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transport-institute> @UCLTI<https://twitter.com/uclti>