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San Francisco Department of Public Health
Program on Health Equity and Sustainability HIA Practitioners Summer Training CourseJune 22-25, 2010 San Francisco, CA
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*HIA Practitioners Summer Training Course
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What: |
Health Impact Assessment Practitioners Summer Training Course |
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When: |
June 22 – 25, 2010 (attendance all four days is mandatory) |
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Where: |
1 South Van Ness Avenue Atrium Conference Room San Francisco, CA
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Instructors: |
HIA practitioners at the San Francisco Department of Public Health and community, academic, and local government partners |
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Cost: |
$960 (includes the cost of course materials, breakfast and lunch; accommodations and travel not included)*
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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.
Understand roles for community members, public agencies, decision-makers and other stakeholders.
Day 2Understand 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 3Continue 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 4Learn 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.
The HIA Course Outline 2010 describes the course in more detail. Additional course information will be forthcoming for those who enroll.
Please complete and submit the HIA Course Registration Form to enroll. Enrollment is limited, and priority will be given to early registrants. Limit two people per organization. Please note however that if there is more demand than space, we may ask you to reduce your organization’s participation to only one person.
As we are committed to ensuring that the training is a good fit for all participants, based on your responses to registration questions we may contact you to discuss your registration and goals in attending the training.
We will send an email confirming your participation as well as course prep materials by mid-May. Please note that to confirm your space in the course, the full payment of $960 must be received Friday, May 28, 2010. Upon enrollment, staff will contact you regarding payment options.
The training will take place near Civic Center/City Hall in San Francisco.
Please contact hiacourse.dph@sfdph.org or call 415-252-3919 with any questions.