HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT SUMMER TRAINING COURSE July 16 – 19, 2012 | Oakland CA Health impact assessment (HIA) is most often defined as “a combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, program or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population” (World Health Organization, 1999). Widely recognized as one method to consider “health in all policies,” HIA has been used in the United States on land use, transportation, education, criminal justice, labor, agriculture, energy, budgeting, and other decision-making areas to inform policymakers about the health impacts of proposed policies, projects and plans. Over the past decade, SFDPH has emerged as one of the leading practitioners of HIA in the United States. This year, SFDPH will conduct our fifth annual summer training course for HIA practitioners. The overall goal of the course is to provide current and future practitioners of HIA experience using available procedures, regulations, and tools to implement an HIA. About the SFDPH HIA Training What: Health Impact Assessment Practitioners Summer Training Course Where: TCE Oakland Conference Center, 1111 Broadway, 7th floor, Oakland, CA When: July 16-19, 2012 (attendance all four days is mandatory) 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). A limited number of scholarships are available to support attendance by non-profit organizations, students, and others. To Register: Please complete the entire online application form, available at: http://tinyurl.com/SFDPH-HIA-Training-2012 Registration will close on Friday June 29th, however enrollment is limited, and priority is given to early registrants. To ensure diversity of participants, limit two people per organization. More information about the course, including course objectives, a sample agenda, past participant evaluations, and information about travel, lodging, financial aid and more are available at: http://www.sfphes.org/HIA_Training.htm. Please contact hiacourse.dph(a)sfdph.org or call 415-252-3919 with any questions. Past participants have given glowing reviews of the course: · "Will recommend this course!.. These tools are all useful to our work, and I feel confident now in writing grants to support integration of HIA in our public health capacity building efforts…." · "Thank you for an amazing conference. Extremely well organized and facilitated. Content expertise was well presented and facilitated valuable discussion that cannot be replicated in other forums (such as webinars or one day sessions)." · "I have learned an awful lot about HIA. In many instances, the most informative statements, are those that have been made 'between the lines,' by which I means the comments on how things don't always go to plan, and how that is dealt with by HIA practitioners, or how they solved problems that came up." · "Overall this training has done a very impressive job of packing in a lot of info in an engaging/hands on way… SFDPH has developed impressive qualifications and depth of knowledge and makes the process of HIA looks very doable."