Human Impact Partners

The overall goal of Human Impact Partners’ HIA Training is to provide participants with experience and knowledge about procedures and tools available to effectively conduct HIA and use HIA findings. While the HIA Training we offer is customized to suit the needs of our partners, our two-day training typically:

• Covers the HIA process and essential steps;
• Offers facilitated group exercises to practice moving through the steps of HIA in the context of case study examples;
• Provides information about HIA tools and methodologies for assessment;
• Includes a discussion about collaboration and the variety of roles for stakeholders in each of the steps of an HIA;
• Discusses intervention points in land use, planning, regulatory, and policy-setting processes where HIA can be applied; and
• Helps participants strategize about their needs and challenges as they consider conducting an HIA.

The HIA Training provides a unique opportunity to engage health experts, community advocates, decision-makers, and other diverse stakeholders in the process of identifying and characterizing health effects resulting from a proposed policy or project.

Click here to access a version of our General Training Slides. We typically provide trainings for groups of approximately 30-35 participants who: a) want to work together on a particular HIA or b) want to build local knowledge about HIA across diverse organizational partners with the goal of starting to conduct HIAs.

For more information about Human Impact Partners’ HIA Trainings, please contact Jennifer Lucky at jlucky(0)humanimpact.org.