Health Impact Assessments CoP

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Health Impact Assessments CoP

Interested in learning more about Health Impact Assessments (HIA), getting help with conducting your first HIA, or collaborating to build the HIA field? All are welcomed. Join now!

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Latest Activity: May 1

Introduction, Ground Rules, and Guiding Documents

Welcome from the Creator

As someone who has been studying Health Impact Assessments (HIA) for a little over a year now, I find it amazing the number of people from different fields interested in HIAs and working together to conduct HIAs. I also find it unbelievably overwhelming to weed through all the different documents, partnerships, and methodologies attached to HIA.

 

I formed this community in April 2011 as an ORISE Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity as a way to provide technical assistance to communities and states wanting to learn more about HIA. Since then I have moved on from the CDC to work on HIAs in North Carolina. I could have left this Community of Practice behind as I transitioned to a new position, but I thought it is too valuable of a resource to leave behind and that I could contribute to it even better from this new perspective of someone doing HIAs on a local and regional level- in the trenches so to speak.

 

It is my sincere hope that this community of practice (CoP) will serve the needs of the full spectrum of HIA understanding from those just beginning their journey to those who have been serving on the HIA frontier for years. Using the communication tools included within phConnect, we can work together to troubleshoot problems we run into, share our successes, and co-create a common understanding of HIA. I look forward to getting to know each and every one of you better and welcome to the community.

 

Katherine Hebert, MCRP

 

P.S. If you need tailored CDC technical assistance on HIA I recommend contacting Dr. Candace Rutt at crutt@cdc.gov.

 

Ground Rules

  1. Foster open and friendly conversation on HIA.
  2. Focus on HIA- although we will be expanding the conversation to talk about topics that directly relate to HIA (such as an introduction to the fields of public health and planning and developing a common language between the two) lets keep irrelevant announcements to a minimum.
  3. Forming other HIA communities- Go for it! I realize that there will come a time when you say I really just want to talk about this with people from my state/school/organization/field/etc. If so a couple of requests- 1) let me know you are intending on doing this as there are resources I can direct you to that will make this easier and more likely to be successful 2) occassionally report back to the larger community of practice what you find out, develop, etc.
  4. Invite others to join the community using the following template and documents: Email Invitation Template, Brief Document on phConnect and the HIA CoP, and Instructions for Joining phConnect and the HIA CoP.

 

Guiding Documents

The following documents provide additional information on the goals and organization of the HIA CoP:

Community Discussions and Documents

First HIA Advise & Recomendations 4 Replies

Maine Health Impact Assessment Initiative (MeHi) is proposing to a community of 25,000 here in Maine that they allow us to perform an HIA on their proposal to create a multi grade school mega campus.  This would close several smaller neighborhood…Continue

Tags: Consolidation, School, HIA, Intermediate

Started by Douglas S. Beck. Last reply by Rebecca Drewette-Card Apr 27.

Help Me Help You 3 Replies

I am part of a collaboration looking at developing quantitative models and tools to be used within the HIA process to put number estimations to some of the physical activity, nutrition, and obesity health impacts many HIAs look at. For example a…Continue

Tags: Assistance, Tools, Quantitative

Started by Katherine Hebert. Last reply by Alyssa Auvinen Oct 28, 2011.

National Research Council Releases a Report on the Role of HIA 1 Reply

Important report coming from the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science on HIAs and their role in improving health. To view the press release go to: …Continue

Started by Katherine Hebert. Last reply by Katherine Hebert Sep 27, 2011.

Working with Planners: Post 3

This is the third and last increment of my conversation with Mitchell Silver, AICP. I would also like to bring to your attention three more resources that look at planning, public health, and HIAs. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) for Planners: What…Continue

Started by Katherine Hebert Jul 28, 2011.

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Comment by Katherine Hebert on February 29, 2012 at 9:00am

Hi everyone,

 

I apologize for the hiatus...what can I say my work in Davidson has kept me really busy. A couple of things you might want to know about. There are two new HIA documents available- HIA a comparison of 45 local, national and international guidelines available from the Environmental Impact Assessment Review http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195925512000042 and HIA of the Atlanta BeltLine in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(11)00909-3/abstract

Also if you plan to attend the Inaugural National HIA Meeting in DC in April let me know!

 

Katherine

Comment by stephanie n roach on November 22, 2011 at 3:58pm

We need mentors!! We need you!!

 

Dear Friends & Colleagues:

Here’s your chance to make a difference!!

As you may already know from your past participation or support, Project IMHOTEP is an outstanding program that has helped tremendously to change the face of public health.  Project:  IMHOTEP students have gone on to medical and/or graduate level public health careers; several are currently working at CDC as FTE employees or contractors.

Project:  IMHOTEP is a program for undergraduate juniors, seniors and recent graduates supported under a CDC cooperative agreement with Morehouse College/ Public Health Sciences Institute (PHSI).  The 11-week training program is designed to increase knowledge and skills of underrepresented students in the 5 core disciplines of public health. 

Each year, PHSI works to identify researches to mentor students who will be participating in the program this summer.  If you have a summer project and can mentor a student starting the first week of June through final presentation in early August, please get involved.  The 2012 Student Project Proposal is attached along with the Project IMHOTEP flyer that provides you with a snapshot of the program.

Contact Mr. Shaun Moon, MPH-Data Center Manager/Informatics Specialist-Morehouse College, Public Health Sciences Institute via email or telephone at smoon@morehouse.edu or 404-522-3365 for all inquiries.

If space is a problem at your location, please indicate that on the form as we can work with you to secure office space.

There is NO cost involved, but your voluntary investment of time in the professional development of a student is invaluable.

Please feel free to forward this message widely to CDC or other Public Health colleagues that might also be interested, and thank you very much for your support.

 

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Cynthia E. Trawick, Ed.D, MA

Director

Public Health Sciences Institute

Morehouse College

830 Westview Drive, SW

Atlanta, GA 30314

Office:  (404) 653-7860

Fax:  (404) 222-2594

ctrawick@morehouse.edu

www.morehouse.edu

www.morehouse.edu/phsi

The mission of the Public Health Sciences Institute (PHSI) at Morehouse College is to support the training of students to diversity the public health sciences workforce.

 

 

 

 

Comment by Keshia Pollack on November 18, 2011 at 11:17am

Congrats Katherine! I wish you well with your new endeavor. - Keshia

 

Comment by Katherine Hebert on November 18, 2011 at 11:01am

Hi everyone. I just wanted to post a quick announcement to let everyone know that I am leaving the CDC in order to do HIA work in North Carolina. I will continue to communicate with everyone using the Community of Practice and I am hoping to get even more support from this community as I transition to local and regional HIA work. With this in mind anyone want to share their lessons learned from their first HIA? Particularly pitfalls to avoid!

Comment by Katherine Hebert on October 24, 2011 at 4:21pm
HIA of the Americas Conference was excellent last week. Wanted to share with you some resources I found mainly SOPHIA- the Society of Practitioners of HIA. They just launched their website and are looking for members. To join go to www.hiasociety.org. Really has some excellent leaders in the HIA field organizing this so check it out.
Comment by Katherine Hebert on October 7, 2011 at 1:29pm

Hi everyone. Just wanted to let yall know that I'll be at the HIA of the Americas Conference in Oakland October 17-18 if anyone would like to meet up and talk in person.

 

Comment by Aaron Wernham on September 27, 2011 at 11:07am

Hi, everyone.  I wanted to let you know that the Health Impact Project is hiring.  We are looking for a seasoned HIA practitioner, or an experienced professional in a related discipline such as regulatory impact assessment, with excellent public health and analytic skills.  This person will take the lead on our HIA work.  See the position description at: https://intranet-pct.icims.com/jobs/2662/job.

Aaron

 

 

Comment by Katherine Hebert on September 1, 2011 at 10:26am

I could definitely see the tracking network being useful in developing the community profile at the beginning of the HIA. Depending on how regularly it is updated and the geographic scale that the information is available and the level of the HIA (aka is it a state policy or a local project etc.) it could also be helpful with a broad impact evaluation piece as well.

 

Anyone else have experience using this tool or are from Maryland or the surrounding region and would like to connect with Cliff?

Comment by Clifford S. Mitchell on August 31, 2011 at 12:31pm

Thanks, Christina.  Katherine, if you go to the main CDC tracking page at: http://ephtracking.cdc.gov/showHome.action, you will also be able to access all of the state portals (including Maryland's). 

 

Cliff

Comment by Christina Dahlstrom on August 31, 2011 at 11:17am

Hi Katherine,

I assisted with developing the community design indicators for CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network.  They can be found at: ephtracking.cdc.gov/showCommunityDesign.action

 

I am not aware of whether/how these indicators have been used for HIAs, but I would be very interested to know as well since that is an intended use.

 

For those who are attending the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Conference in Atlanta, I will be presenting on the community design indicators.  My presentation is during Track 1 - Session 5 on September 14, 1:30 - 3:00 PM.  The title of my presentation is "Data for community action: Developing community design indicators for National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network." 


Christina

 

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