Webinar: Health Impact Assessment and the Built Environment

October 21 from 10:30-12:00 

The Oregon Public Health Division will hold a free webinar introducing the connections between health and the built environment, the basics of planning in Oregon, and the use of health impact assessment to support the consideration of health in built environment decisions in communities throughout Oregon.

Register for the webinar at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/308480242

Trainers:

Brendon Haggerty is an epidemiologist for the Oregon Health Authority's Health Impact Assessment and Climate & Health programs. He has been an author and collaborator for several health impact assessments and served as mentor for the National Association of City and County Health Officials HIA mentorship program. Trained as an urban planner, much of his work focuses on the built environment and the spatial distribution of demographic groups.

Andrea Hamberg has coordinated the Oregon Public Health Division’s Health Impact Assessment Program since 2011. She acted as project manager and co-author for four HIAs for the Division including the most recent, the Climate Smart Strategy HIA. Andrea has provided technical assistance to county health departments throughout the state conduct excellent rapid HIA projects.