Human Impact Partners

• HIA Guides and Steps
• Equity and Stakeholder Engagement
• HIA Training Materials
• Getting Started
• HIA Scoping
• HIA Research and Assessment Resources
• HIA Reporting Resources
• HIA Monitoring and Evaluation Resources
• Framing and Media
• New Rapid HIA Model 

HIA Guides and Steps

• A Health Impact Assessment Toolkit: A Handbook to Conducting HIA- Developed by HIP, this toolkit introduces and defines HIA, describes each step of the HIA process, and discusses other aspects of HIA such as collaboration and when to use HIA
• HIA A Guide for Practice - Developed by Dr. Rajiv Bhatia, this guide describes the key tasks and activities for HIA as well as the issues and challenges that arise in the course of practice.
• HIA Practice Standards - Standards for application of HIA developed by the North American HIA Practice Standards Working Group
• HIA Summary Guides - Two-page summaries for each of the five steps of HIA, evaluation, and community participation in HIA
• Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment – Developed by the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science in 2011.
• Social Determinants and Health Tree Exercise - Exercise for discussing the determinants of health and HIA that can be used with anyone from community residents to foundation program officers
• Frequently Asked Questions about Integrating HIA into EIA - A guide to integrating HIA into Environmental Impact Assessment
• The Merseyside Guidelines for Health Impact Assessment - Guidelines for HIA from the United Kingdom

Equity and Stakeholder Engagement

• Promoting Equity Through HIA
• Guidance and Best Practices for Stakeholder Participation in HIAs (version 1.0)
• HIA Committees' Roles and Functions - Summary of the purpose, roles, and functions of the various types of committees involved in HIAs
• Roles for Collaborators - Examples of roles for collaborators in the HIA process
• Equity Strategies - Describes concrete actions that practitioners can take to ensure that the value of equity be meaningfully incorporated into HIA

HIA Training Materials

• HIP's Training Slides - Slides Human Impact Partners uses in our two-day HIA training

Getting Started

• Examples of HIA Project Management Tools - Includes examples of Goals Values and Participation Commitments, an HIA Work Plan, Template, and an HIA Practitioner Team Roles and Responsibilities Plan to assist project leaders to initiate, manage and track the progress of an HIA project 
• Screening White Paper - In-depth discussion of questions to address in choosing a topic for a HIA
• Screening Worksheet - Sample worksheet to guide HIA screening
• HIA Readiness Question Guide - Questions to consider with prospective HIA partners to determine their preparedness for launching a HIA
• Deciding if a Health Impact Assessment Is Required (Screening for HIA) - Offers HIA screening advice based on interviews with many HIA practitioners in the UK
• Health Impact Assessment: A Screening Tool for the Greater London Authority -Tool created by the London Health Commission that provides a systematic method of identifying key ways in which a particular policy or strategy may affect health

HIA Scoping

• Scoping Worksheet - Sample worksheet to guide HIA scoping
• Pathway Diagram Examples - Sample pathway diagrams connecting various issues to health for use in the HIA scoping step
• Example of an HIA Scope - Example of a completed HIA scope

HIA Research and Assessment Resources

• Evidence Base - Searchable database of peer-reviewed public health literature that includes important information regarding social determinants, the built environment, and health
• Data Sources - A list of commonly used data sources in HIA
• Impact Analysis Template - See HIA Report Guide for sample impact analysis table categories (see assessment section)
• Healthy Development Measurement Tool - Comprehensive evaluation metric to consider health needs in urban development plans and projects
• San Francisco Department of Public Health HIA Tools - Tools developed to assess environmental conditions that affect health and respond to urban health inequities and policy gaps
• Lock K. Health Impact Assessment. BMJ. 2000;320;1395-1398.
• Joffe M, Mindell J. Health Impact Assessment. Occup Environ Med. 2005;62:907–912.
• Collins J and Koplan JP. Health Impact Assessment: A Step Toward Health in All Policies. JAMA. 2009;302(3):315-317.

HIA Reporting Resources

• HIA Report Guide - A template and information on what to include in your HIA report

HIA Monitoring and Evaluation Resources

• Example HIA Monitoring Plan - An example of the HIA Monitoring Plan from the Kohala Center's Health Impact Assessment in Hawaii
• HIA Evaluation Sample Questions - Sample questions for evaluating a HIA process

Framing and Media

• The California Endowment’s Health Exchange Academy: Communicating for Change series
• The Praxis Project
• Berkeley Media Studies Group
• The Frameworks Institute

New Rapid HIA Model

Human Impact Partners recently developed and implemented a new model for conducting a rapid HIA.  This model aims to conduct an HIA within a short decision-making timeline, while maintaining a high level of stakeholder engagement in the process.  A more detailed description of the rapid HIA model can be found here.

Click here for links to materials used in one of HIP’s rapid HIA pilot projects.

For more information about Human Impact Partners’ Tools and Resources, or to add a resource, please contact us.