Featured Course: Developing Healthy Communities

Developing Equitable, Inclusive Community Environments for Physical Activity (NUTC 212) will teach students about key elements of the built environment that support routine activity, such as land use plans and zoning, and transportation networks and funding. Students will explore how inequitable distribution of these policies and infrastructures have adversely impacted disadvantaged segments of the population often based on race, age, disability, income, and other demographic factors, and how these may be remedied. The result will be a broad understanding of the evidence- and best practice-based approaches to healthy and equitable community development.

Adjunct Associate Professor Mark Fenton and Adjunct Instructor Rebecca Boulos, PhD, MPH teach several courses at Tufts, including NUTC 212. Mark Fenton is a national public health, planning, and transportation consultant and former host of the "America's Walking" series on PBS television. He's author of numerous books including the best selling "Complete Guide to Walking for Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness." 

Having earned her Doctorate at the Friedman School, Rebecca Boulos has worked across industry developing cross-sector partnerships to promote community health, specifically nutrition, physical activity, and obesity prevention for children and families. She is the Executive Health Director of the Maine Public Health Association.

Watch student Trilety Wade discuss her takeaways from Developing Equitable, Inclusive Community Environments for Physical Activity (NUTC 212):