Human Impact Partners

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 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

HIA Training Materials

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

Getting Started

• 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

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
• 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 Monitoring and Evaluation Resources

• 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

Framing and Media:

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

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