ADAPT

Association of Doctors for Advancing Physically-active Transportation

ADAPT is more of a networking tool than a specific program or project. It is a loose organization of 45 physicians with no formal governance structure. Members are like-minded physicians who care about the impact of the built environment on public health.

ADAPT’s priorities are:

• to emphasize publicly that physicians see environmental health as an integral part of personal health, specifically as environmental health pertains to the built environment and active transportation;
• to publicly promote active transportation as one of the top healthcare and environment-care initiatives; and
• to identify and address obstacles to active transportation.

ADAPT achieves these priorities through communication, education and advocacy. Specifically, ADAPT uses a list-serve to network and share best practices with fellow physicians and uses letter writing and media to achieve advocacy.