Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Trainings Overview
Design for Health (DFH) and other developers of HIA materials provide training on using HIA in communities. Below we have listed or linked materials from DFH trainings and elsewhere.
DFH Trainings for the Minnesota Department of Health
- Design for Health Training Presentations, November 9, 2009 (a very technical overview)
- Design For Health Training Presentations, January 19, 2010 (a more general overview)
- Arden Hills Healthy City Planning Workshop, April 16, 2010
Other Training Resources
- Key HIA Clearinghouses
- HIA and Other Healthy Planning Case Examples
- Useful Online Documents and Tools
- Design for Health Resources Mentioned in Training
- Other Training Materials
Key HIA Clearinghouses
- Centers for Disease Control HIA Resources
- Health Impact Assessment Clearing House Learning and Information Center—HIA-CLIC at UCLA
With fantastic training here. - HIA Connect in Australia
- HIA Gateway, UK
- Human Impact Partners, Oakland. Includes Rapid HIA worksheet
- RWJF/Pew Health Impact Project
- World Health Organization HIA
HIA and Other Healthy Planning Case Examples
- Bloomington, MN
- Carver County, MN
- Commerce City, Derby Redevelopment, CO
- Eden Prairie, MN
- London Olympics, UK
- Lowry Ave Phase 2, Hennepin County, MN
- Northeast National Petroleum Reserve EIS, AK
- Ramsey City, MN
- Rochester, MN
- Victoria, MN
- Washington/King County SR 520 Replacement Bridge and HOV Project, WA
Useful Online Documents and Tools
- Equality Impact Assessment Tool, UK Department of Health
- Health Impact Assessment Practical Guide from HIA Connect (312 KB)
- Ison, Erica ed. 2002. Rapid appraisal tool for health impact assessment – a task-based approach. Eleventh iteration.
- LEED-ND
- Policy Screening Tool
- San Francisco Health Development Measurement Tool
- Sustainable Sites Initiative
Other Web Sites Mentioned in Training
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
- Commercial Business Data
- Examples of Completed HIAs
- National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
- National Vital Statistics Reports
- Public Use Microdata Sample
- US Census
- US National Library of Medicine ad the National Institutes of Health
Design for Health Resources Mentioned in Training
- Case Studies of Minnesota and other communities that have integrated health into planning
- Comprehensive Plan Review Checklist
- Health Impact Assessment Tools by DFH
- Planning Information Sheets with information on model plan and ordinance language
- Research Summaries/Key Questions that summarize recent research
Other Training Materials
- Health Impact Assessment: U.S. Experience (2.52 MB)
Andrew Dannenberg
Associate Director for Science, Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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