About

TRB Staff

Katherine Kortum, Senior Program Officer

James Manning, Associate Program Officer 

Rhonda Levinowsky, Associate Program Officer

Committee Contacts

Chair

Ipek Nese Sener, Texas A&M Transportation Institute


Secretary

Eleni Christofa, University of Massachussets Amherst


Research coordinator

Lisa Losada Rojas, University of New Mexico


Paper review coordinator

David Ederer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Communications coordinator

E. Owen Waygood, Polytechnique Montréal

Committee Members


Abdullahi Abdulle , Minnesota Department of Transportation 


David Berrigan , National Cancer Institute 


Sean Co , StreetLight Data 


Andrew Dannenberg , University of Washington 


Preston Elliott , Tennessee Department of Transportation 


Marlon Flournoy , California Department of Transportation 


Cassandra Gascon , Massachusetts Department of Transportation 


Faith Hall , Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) 


Stephen Hargarten , Medical College of Wisconsin 


Lisa Losada-Rojas , University of New Mexico 


Theodore Mansfield , StreetLight Data 


Carolyn McAndrews , University of Wisconsin, Madison 


Rebecca Naumann , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 


Keshia Pollack Porter , Johns Hopkins University 


Kelly Rodgers , Streetsmart Planning LLC 


Daniel Rodriguez , University of California, Berkeley 


Ann Steedly , Planning Communities, LLC 


Megan Wier , Oakland Department of Transportation 


James Woodcock , University of Cambridge 


Anna Zivarts , Disability Rights Washington 

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.