Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Income and racially-based inequities are among the biggest urban public health challenges in Canada. These inequities have their roots in structural barriers to being healthy. One example is poor active transportation. Winnipeg Manitoba has one of the worst rates healthy inequities between it'srichest and poorest citizens. Many of these citizens are Indigenous people that have suffered from past on-going structural barriers to well-being/health. Winnipeg has committed $13M to improving active transportation infrastructure in poor neighbourhoods but need a plan for how to spend this budget. Attending the the Healthy Cities Workshop provides a unique opportunity for our team to combine Scandinavian best practices with local and Indigenous knowledge to envision a unique AT plan designed to reduce health inequities in our city. The main objectives of our proposal are to (1) learn from Copenhagen on how they prioritized chnages in active transportation AT within structurally disadvantaged neighbourhoods, and meaningfully engaged citizen of those neighbourhoods in the plan; (2) develop a set of plans to maximize the benefits of new investment in active transport to meet the needs of citizens in structurally disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Winnipeg and (3) bring this information to leaders and community champions within these neighbourhoods to co-develop an active transportation plan for their neighbourhood and a grant to study the impact.