Tools & Resources

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
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
Best Practices in Stakeholder Participation in HIA - DRAFT

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

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 Questions – Questions to consider with prospective HIA partners to determine their preparedness for launching a HIA
Principles of Collaboration example – A template for principles and ground rules for collaboration in HIA
Roles for Collaborators – Examples of roles for collaborators in the HIA process
Collaboration Worksheet – A blank worksheet to complete to understand roles for collaborators in 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

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

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
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Collins J and Koplan JP. Health Impact Assessment: A Step Toward Health in All Policies. JAMA. 2009;302(3):315-317.

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

HIA Monitoring Sample Questions – Sample questions to include in a HIA Monitoring Plan
HIA Sample Monitoring Plan – A Sample Monitoring Plan
HIA Evaluation Sample Questions – Sample questions for evaluating a HIA process

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