FitCity2 PHL is a full-day symposium designed to explore design strategies in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and cities that improve health by promoting physical activity and healthy eating. At this ground-breaking event, architects, developers, designers, landscape architects, planners, City officials, and public health professionals will connect to learn from one another and from panels of experts about how public officials are integrating health into policy and planning, hear about current active design projects around Philadelphia, learn what makes an initiative attractive to funders, and walk through a case study of a successful collaboration between the community and planners.

FitCity is a collaboration between, Health Promotion Council & Public Health Management Corporation, Ballinger, Community Design Collaborative, AIA Philadelphia, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Philadelphia Planning Commission, Philadelphia Dept of Public Health, Center for Architecture and Design, Drexel University, American Diabetes Association, and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation.

General Admission $30 | Students $15

This event is eligible as continuing education credit: 6.25 (HSW) AIA/CES LUs, 4.5 AICP/APA CM credits approved

Image Credit: Jeffrey Totaro

Please join MEDstudio@Jeff and the Thomas Jefferson University community as we welcome FitCity2 conference attendees for an evening of light refreshments at the Beacon, October 13, 2016 from 5 - 7pm

THE BEACON, making its debut at this year’s DesignPhiladelphia Festival, is an interactive ecosystem presented by MEDstudio@JEFF in collaboration with lead designer Jenny Sabin Studio, with the generous support of Provost Mark Tykocinski and the Department of Emergency Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. THE BEACON will immerse audience members into an exciting vision of how design will enhance the future of human health and wellness.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE…

Francine Axler, PHMC Community Health Database

Joyce Lee, President, IndigoJLD Green Health

Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley, Philadelphia Department of Public Health

Director Ann Fadullon, Planning and Development"

Deputy Managing Director Clarena Tolson, Office of Transportation & Infrastructure Systems

Anjali Chainani, Director of Policy, Office of the Mayor

Harris Steinberg, Drexel University

Shawn McCaney, William Penn Foundation

Rose Gray, APM

Bridget Palombo, APM

Rebecca Johnson, AIA Philadelphia and The Center for Architecture and Design

Aliana Havrilla, National Network of Public Health Institutes/County Health Rankings

Melissa Kim, LISC/CPTED

Diana Nicholas, RA, AIA, NCARB Drexel University

Donna Griffin, Locus Partners

Omar Woodward, Greenlight Fund Philadelphia

John Grady, PIDC

Amanda High, The Reinvestment Fund

Chris Linn, DVRPC

Patrick Morgan, Knight Foundation

Sarah Shrimplin, US Dept of Health and Human Services

Modesto J Bigas-Valedon, WRT

Yianice Hernandez, Director of Active Living

Beth Miller, Community Design Collaborative

Keri Salerno, PHMC