About
Committee Contacts
Co-chairs
Leslie Meehan, Tennessee Department of Health
Ed Christopher, Independent Consultant
Secretary
Eleni Christofa, University of Massachussets Amherst
Research coordinator
Daniel Rodriguez, University of California, Berkeley
Paper review coordinator
Ipek Sener, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Communications coordinator
E. Owen Waygood, Polytechnique Montréal
Committee Members
Alina Baciu (Special NASEM Liaison), Health and Medicine Division
David Berrigan, National Cancer Institute
Eleni Christofa, University of Massachussets Amherst
Ed Christopher, Independent Consultant
Andrew L. Dannenberg, University of Washington
David Ederer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Preston Elliott, Tennessee Department of Transportation
Marlon Flournoy, Caltrans
Lauren Gardner, Johns Hopkins University
Cassandra Gascon Bligh, Massachusetts Department of Transportation
Faith Hall, Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
Stephen Hargarten, Medical College of Wisconsin
Melissa Kraemer-Badtke, East Central Wisconsin RPC
Theodore Mansfield, RSG Inc.
Carey McAndrews, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Leslie Meehan, Tennessee Department of Health
Jennifer Mindell, University College London
Mark Nieuwnjuijsen, Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Keshia Pollack Porter, Johns Hopkins University
Daniel Rodriguez, University of California, Berkeley
Kelly Rogers, Portland State University
Ipek Sener, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
E. Owen Waygood, Polytechnique Montréal
Geoffrey Whitfield, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Megan Wier, City of Oakland Department of Transportation
James Woodcock, University of Cambridge
About TRB committees
TRB standing committees serve as communities of transportation professionals who have knowledge and interest in the areas included in the committee’s scope. Each committee operates within a scope approved by the Executive Director of TRB. (TRB Technical Activities Leadership Guide, 2015)
History
In January 2020, TRB approved a new committee structure that created AME70, a new standing committee on health. This was welcome news for the joint Subcommittee on Health and Transportation, which formed in March 2012.
Since its inception in 2012, the Health and Transportation Subcommittee was highly productive. Actually, it functioned more like a standing committee and sponsored paper calls, submitted research proposals, reviewed papers, organized and conducted sessions and workshops, and took on special initiatives.
To understand what makes a health committee in TRB unique, consider the situation in which the subcommittee was formed. Starting around 2005, TRB staff began to see annual meeting paper submissions with health-related topics but without a corresponding committee capable of leading the reviews. Behind the scenes, TRB staff established a group of three committee chairs to lead a team of reviewers that served as an ad-hoc review team. This is an example of how the the transportation community recognized that health was emerging as topic that should be considered within the framework of TRB.