Stride Researchers Develop Graduate-Level Course on Public Health, Physical Activity & Design of the Built Environment

The leading causes of death in the United States include heart disease, obesity, cancer, stroke, and chronic respiratory diseases. Ensuring an environment that allows people to be engaged in physical activity to access grocery stores and daily community designations contributes to active mobility and increased overall public health outcomes.

“That’s why it is crucially important to consider essential built environment infrastructure supporting active transportation,” said Dimitra Michalaka, associate professor of civil engineering at The Citadel. “We created a novel graduate-level course to provide fundamental educational content at the convergence of public health, physical activity, transportation infrastructure, and the built environment.”

The course, established through a grant from the STRIDE Center, the 2016 U.S. Department of Transportation Regional (Southeast) University Transportation Center housed at the University of Florida Transportation Institute, home of the I-STREET Living Lab Initiative, focused on preparing graduate students and professionals to better address the consequential intersection of public health, land use and mobility.

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