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Land Use HIA Tools


Connections between Health and Place: a Review of the Evidence Base for Health Impacts of Planning Projects.  This is a searchable database of the peer reviewed public health literature that includes important findings regarding the built environment and health and references.



Health Impact Assessment: A Toolkit for Community Based Planning
A toolkit developed by HIP in association with TALC and with funding from the California Endowment.




A rapid HIA worksheet for community meetings



A list of data sources that are helpful in conducting HIAs.


Training Materials
Click on the links below to download the slides and other materials from our trainings.

    Los Angeles Training Slides and other materials (Jan 12 & 13, 2009)

    Oregon Community Group Training Slides (April 20 & 21, 2009)

   Oregon Department of Health Services Training Slides and  SFDPH's Traffic Tools Slides
    (April 22 & 23, 2009)


   Healthy Eating Active Communities Training Slides (May 13 & 14, 2009)


HIA Links The San Francisco Department of Public Health's Program on Health Equity and Sustainability
The Program's mission is to support San Franciscans working together to advance urban health and social and environmental justice through ongoing integration of local government and community efforts and through valuing the needs, experiences and knowledge of diverse San Francisco Residents.  Many of the tools HIP uses have been developed by SFDPH's PHES or are based on their work.

University of California at Berkeley's Health Impact Assessment Group
UCBHIG is a non-partisan, independent collective that emerged from a graduate seminar on HIA at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in 2006.  The mission of UCBHIG is to promote the field of HIA through advocacy, education, research and community outreach.  HIP is collaborating with UCBHIG on HIAs.


The HIA blog.

HIA Connect at University of New South Wales and their list of HIA Links.

The HIA Gateway

IMPACT - the International Health Impact Assessment Consortium

The Centers for Disease Control's HIA website