In cooperation with Tacoma's Downtown on the Go organization (which promotes environmentally-sound transportation alternatives that don't include you idling all alone in your Dodge Ram), Coalition for Active Transportation and the Transportation Choices Coalition, the University of Washington Tacoma will host a public health and transportation forum Friday from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Carwein Auditorium. According to hype, the forum will, "address the connection between public health and transportation and all of the momentum around this locally, in the legislature, and nationally." The forum will be moderated by Victor Colman, director of the Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition, and panelists will include Washington State Representative Andy Billig, urban planner Julia Walton and Tacoma Pierce County Health Department Prevention Program Coordinator Kirsten Frandsen.

[Carwein Auditorium, noon, free, Keystone Building, Room 102, University of Washington Tacoma, 1900 Commerce St., Tacoma, 253.627.2175]