*HIA Practitioners Summer Training Course
June 23 – 26, 2009 -- COMPLETE
Oakland, CA *

Our second annual health impact assessment training course was held in Oakland, CA from June 23 - 26, 2009. The training was a resounding success with over 30 participants from around the country. We thank all the participants for joining us in a rigorous multi-day training. We will continue to provide this course annually.

See the HIA Training Course outline for details about the course, and check out the course reading list.

Please contact hiacourse.dph@sfdph.org or call 415-252-3919 with any questions.

Course Details:

What:

Health Impact Assessment Practitioners Summer Training Course

When:

June 23 – 26, 2009 (attendance all four days is mandatory)

Where:

The California Endowment

1111 Broadway, 7th Floor

Oakland, CA

Instructors:

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

Cost:

$960 (includes the cost of course materials, breakfast and lunch; accommodations and travel not included)*

Training objectives include:

Day 1:

Review and discuss the value and purpose of HIA as a healthy public policy tool.

Learn the steps and tasks of a typical HIA.

Discuss successes and lessons learned from HIA case studies.

Gain experience in the screening and scoping stages of HIA.

Day 2

Understand the tasks and goals of the assessment stage in HIA, and about the range of methods that have been used in various HIAs.

Learn about existing conditions tools that can be used in the assessment stage.

Learn about the Healthy Development Measurement Tool (HDMT) and gain experience exploring and accessing HDMT community health indicators.

Learn about and apply spatial tools to assess community conditions that promote health, and understand the importance and limitations of GIS in applying these tools.

Discuss principles for ethical use of evidence in decision-making and implications for HIA practice.

Day 3

Continue to learn about approaches that can be used in the assessment stage of HIA, including forecasting tools and health risk assessment and modeling.

Understand a general approach to evaluating and utilizing epidemiologic evidence and health risk assessment to predict and quantify health impacts of public policies.

Develop skills for utilizing epidemiologic evidence for health impacts assessment through problem solving exercises.

Through problem solving, understand sources of uncertainty and limitations of evidence. Understand a general approach for identifying recommendations and analyzing alternatives and mitigations.

Day 4

Learn about the communication and monitoring stages of HIA.

Understand roles for community members, public agencies, decision-makers and other stakeholders.

Discuss the opportunities provided by environmental impact assessment for integrated health/social/environmental analysis.

Collectively explore opportunities to advance HIA in practitioners’ jurisdictions.

Consider lessons for successful HIA applications including stakeholder and decision-maker buy-in and inter-agency communication.