Lawrence Frank, PhD

Professor

Faculty of Medicine

School of Population and Public Health

Vancouver Campus

Fields

Climate Change, Public Health, Transportation, Urban Planning / Community Planning

Contact Information

lawrence.frank@ubc.ca

phone: 604-290-4260

http://health-design.spph.ubc.ca

http://spph.ubc.ca/person/lawrence-frank/

Media Contact

Erik Rolfsen

Media Relations Specialist

Tel: 604.822.2644

Cell: 604.209.3048

Email: erik.rolfsen@ubc.ca

Expertise

Health and environmental impacts of transportation and urban planning (land use) decisions, transportation, transit, public health, sustainability, sprawl, neighbourhood walkability, physical activity, urban planning, sustainable development, public transport, public transit

In the Media

• Federal government’s new subsidy will have home buyers ‘driving until they qualify’
• Vancouver’s bike lane greenways led to an uptick in physical activity: study
• The closer you live to an urban greenway, the more physically active you are, says UBC study
• Car2Go merges with BMW’s car-sharing service
• Separated bike lane in the works for Richards Street: City of Vancouver
• Vancouver politician calls for cheaper public transit passes ahead of election
• Urban greenways can reduce neighbourhood carbon emissions
• UBC experts on B.C. budget update
• UBC experts on transit plan
• Walkable neighbourhoods more desirable, produce better health outcomes
• UBC professors make 2014 list of highly cited researchers
• Four ways to fix mass transit in Metro Vancouver
• Transit investments lead to healthier people