*Health Impact Assessment Mini-Course – Complete!!!
July 22 – 25, 2008
San Francisco, CA *

Our inaugural health impact assessment mini-course was held in San Francisco from July 22 – 25, 2008. The mini-course was resounding success with over 35 participants from around the country. We thank all the participants for joining us in our first ever multi-day training on health impact assessment. We hope to provide this mini-course annually.

As promised, we plan to post course related materials on our website for members of the public to access freely. We anticipate posting these by the end of August.

Draft course outline describing the course in more detail. Please also check out the course reading list.

Please contact hiacourse.dph@sfdph.org or call 415-252-3988 with any questions.

Course Details:

What:

Health Impact Assessment Mini-Course

Where:

The California Endowment

101 Second St., 24th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105

Plan on arriving at the above location on Day 1. It is likely that break-out groups on days 2 and 3 will meet at SFDPH offices (1390 Market Street) - about a 20 minute walk from the TCE offices.

When:

July 22 – 25, 2008*

Instructors:

HIA practitioners at the San Francisco Department of Public Health and community, academic, and local government partners

Cost:

Cost: $300 (covers the cost of food and course materials; accommodations not provided)

Checks can be made payable to “San Francisco Public Health Foundation”. Please mail your payment by June 20 to avoid losing your registration.

Training topics include:

Day 1: Review and discuss the value and purpose of HIA as a healthy public policy tool; steps and tasks of a typical HIA; roles for community members, public agencies, decision-makers and other HIS process stakeholders; successes and lessons from HIA case studies; and opportunities provided by environmental impact assessment for integrated health/social/environmental analysis.

Day 2 and 3: Build experience with HIA analytic tools, including:

approaches to model and forecast the effects built environmental changes on hazardous exposures and health outcomes, including air and noise pollution and pedestrian injury collisions;

spatial assessments of community health based on environmental data, including pedestrian and bicycle environmental quality indices and a retail food availability survey;

the Healthy Development Measurement Tool, a comprehensive screening and evaluation instrument for urban development plans and projects; and,

mixed methods to analyze the health impacts of social and environmental policies.

Day 4: Apply lessons learned to scoping potential HIAs proposed by participants; consider lessons for successful HIA applications including stakeholder and decision-maker buy in and inter-agency communication; discuss politically relevant analysis, linkage with experiential knowledge, and use of existing institutional requirements; and collectively explore opportunities to advance HIA in practitioners’ jurisdictions