Nisha Botchwey in the News
Thursday, February 14, 2008
[From UVa News Services]: "The University of Virginia will hold a workshop on Feb. 21 and 22 to explore linkages between sustainability and community health in Charlottesville. The workshop is unique in that it includes multiple schools and disciplines from across University Grounds.
According to Nisha Botchwey, an assistant professor of urban and environmental planning, "today’s problems are too complex to be addressed or solved by any one discipline, so we have created a forum that brings together public health, community planning, law, design and environmental science to take a holistic view of the world...." [for complete article, see UVa News]
Thursday, February 7, 2008
[from U.Va. News Services, by Jane Ford}:"Charlottesville has a goal: to become America's healthiest city by 2015. To that end, city officials sought the assistance of two urban and environmental planning classes in the University of Virginia's School of Architecture. The students, led by assistant professor Nisha Botchwey, a specialist in community development and neighborhood planning with an emphasis on public health, recently made their recommendations to city officials, based on the work they did in the fall semester researching strategies that could help make the city’s goal a reality." [for complete article, please see UVa News website]
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Nisha Botchwey, Assistant Professor of Urban + Environmental Planning, presented her and her students' research on the correlation between diabetes treatment and community resources a the CDC's conference, "Healthy Places Leading to Healthy People:
Community Engagement Improves Health for All," on May 11th. The conference was broadcast to more than 1,400 professionals, including many designers and planners, in several countries including Australia, Micronesia, Canada, and Nigeria. Follow the link below to view the webcast.
Monday, September 27, 2004
Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning Nisha Botchwey has been awarded a grant of approximately $370,000 from the National Institutes of Health with her research partner, UVa School of Medicine Professor Viktor Bovbjerg, to establish a four-year study of the relationship between access to community resources and the effectiveness of treatment for patients with Type II Diabetes in several Virginia municipalities.
