Health Impact Assessment Training
Aug 15 2008 - 09:00
Aug 16 2008 - 17:00
City:
Oakland Address:
Preservation Park, Oakland California Cost:
85Health Impact Assessment (HIA) training for community advocates.
When: September 15th and 16th, 2008
Where: Preservation Park, Oakland California
Learn how to use HIA to increase the power of your advocacy
Who should attend?
This training is designed for community organizers, representatives of
neighborhood organizations, community leaders, and worker advocates who are
interested in using Health Impact Assessment in their advocacy efforts, but
who do not have much experience with it.
Curriculum
This two-day training will focus on Health Impact Assessment, and will use
specific land use examples and exercises. Topics covered in the training
include:
· Connections between land use policies, plans or development
projects and health
· Issues that can be addressed by the HIA approach and
health-related questions that activists could be asking to
strengthen their advocacy efforts
· Intervention points in the Land Use Planning process where
HIA and/or other health-based tools can be inserted (for example,
General and Specific Plans, EIR processes).
· Advocacy strategies using HIA
· “Doing HIA” -- processes, methods, data, resources, and
results
· Working with additional stakeholders including public
health 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 HIA as an advocacy tool.
Space is limited, so please RSVP to Jennifer Lucky at
(jlucky at humanimpact dot org) as soon as possible (and before August 25, 2008).
In the email, please include
- your name
- organization/affiliation
- contact information, and
- a few sentences about what you do and why you are interested
in Health Impact Assessment.
Cost
$85 per participant
For more information contact Jennifer Lucky at (jlucky at humanimpact dot org) or at
510-740-0143.
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What is Health Impact Assessment (HIA)?
HIA is a set of methods and tools that can be used to judge the potential
health effects of a policy or project and the distribution of those effects
within the population. HIA aims to make decisions accountable for their
effects on health, where health is defined broadly as a state of complete
physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity. HIA brings together evidence for decision-makers to
understand how public decisions on projects, plans, or policies affect
health, positively or negatively. HIA also offers recommendations to
enhance the positive health impacts of policy-making and development
projects and to eliminate, reduce, or mitigate negative impacts on health.
HIA can:
Ø improve local conditions, as well as health and well-being, by
making health outcomes of proposed projects, plans and policies
explicit, and by proposing feasible mitigations to negative impacts;
Ø help decision makers to make more informed decisions;
Ø increase awareness/understanding of health and its connections to
public policy and the built environment;
Ø support long-term, interactive community engagement and voice;
Ø offer a transparent and comprehensive way to look at issues and
trade-offs;
Ø help build new, or strengthen existing stakeholder groups,
relationships and partnerships among groups interested in improving
health;
Ø advance equity and justice.
About Human Impact Partners (HIP)
HIP believes that health should be considered in all decision making. We
raise awareness of and collaboratively use innovative data, processes and
tools that evaluate health impacts and inequities in order to transform the
policies, institutions and places that people need in order to live healthy
lives. Through training and mentorship we also build the capacity of
impacted communities and their advocates, workers, public agencies, and
elected officials to conduct health-based analyses, and use them to take
action.
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