Training on Health Impact Assessment (HIA)

Human Impact Partners invites you to participate in a training on Health Impact Assessment (HIA) for community advocates on April 21 and 22 in Oakland, California. Come learn how to use HIA to increase the power of your advocacy.

Who should attend?
This training will be for community organizers, representatives of neighborhood organizations, community leaders, and worker advocates who are interested in using HIA in their advocacy, but who do not have much experience with it. (As an aside, this summer, the San Francisco Department of Public Health will probably be hosting a training on HIA for people who want to learn how to carry out HIA analyses. That training will be more technically focused.)

Curriculum
This two day training will cover Health Impact Assessment in general, but will use Land Use examples and exercises specifically. We will cover the following topics:

o Connections between land use policies, plans or development projects and health
o Issues that can be addressed by the HIA approach and health-related questions that activists could be asking
o Intervention points in the land use planning process where HIA and/or other health-based tools can be inserted (e.g., within the General Plan, Specific Plan, or EIR processes).
o Advocacy strategies using HIA
o “Doing HIA” -- processes, methods, data, resources, and results
o Working with additional stakeholders including public ealth agencies, planners, developers, and elected officials

We will be doing extensive hands-on exercises to get people familiar with how to be part of conducting HIAs and how to use HIAs as an advocacy tool.

Space is limited, so please RSVP to Jonathan Heller at jch (at) humanimpact (dot) org as soon as possible and before April 1, 2008. Please include your name, affiliation, contact information and a few sentences about what you do and why you are interested in Health Impact Assessment.

Cost
Participants are being asked to contribute $85 to cover the costs of food (lunch and snacks) and the facility.

Additional details regarding the exact location and times will follow. We expect the training to take place in Oakland and to run from approximately 10am to 5pm on Monday April 21 and 9am to 4pm on Tuesday April 22.