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Steve Bevington

Director, Shape Your World
Physical Activity and Nutrition Branch
NC Division of Public Health

As the Shape Your World Director, Steve Bevington's primary responsibility is to manage the North Carolina Division of Public Health's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant on Physical Activity in the Built Environment. The purpose of this $3 million grant - of which $1 million is being spent to develop, implement and evaluate Shape Your World - is to support the research and development of sustainable efforts to address the health, economic and environmental burdens of physical inactivity. Steve supports the activities of the inter-departmental Healthy Environments Collaborative and leads State policy analysis efforts related to the health impacts of land use, zoning and planning. He also oversees Shape Your World's pilot community grant program, which engages 11 communities in policy change efforts.

Prior to Shape Your World, Steve worked with the East Coast Greenway, an effort to link communities along a 3,000-mile alternative transportation corridor from Maine to the Florida Keys. Steve also has extensive experience managing environmental projects with both environmental consulting firms and state government.

Steve is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds a master's degree in Environmental Management from Duke University. Steve lives with his wife and two children in Durham where they tend to a large garden and a few chickens. Steve enjoys being outdoors, especially mountain biking, windsurfing and kiteboarding.