| #e.22464 | Tuesday 8:30AM to 4:30PM
February 5,
2013 | CM | 6.50 |
Expanding Health Impact Assessment Practice in the Pacific NorthwestAPA Oregon ChapterPortland, OR Over the past few years, planners and the broader public have become increasingly aware of the many connections between the built environment and health. As a result, many communities are calling for plans, policies, and projects to be developed with health in mind, and planners have begun to work with public health professionals to develop and implement practices and procedures for including public health information and expertise into planning processes.
An increasingly popular approach in Oregon and elsewhere has been the use of health impact assessment (HIA), a structured process that has been developed and promoted by public health professionals for integrating health data and expertise into a wide variety of decision-making processes. There have been a few planning-related HIAs conducted in Oregon and southwest Washington in the past few years. As a result of these projects and of increased public interest and concern about how planning decisions might impact health, planners in both the public and private sector are hearing more requests from community members and elected officials for their work to also include an HIA.
The primary purpose of this workshop will be to provide planners with a firm, detailed understanding of key HIA concepts, processes, inputs, outcomes, and core competencies so that they can determine when HIA is appropriate, and know how to conduct or participate in an HIA and integrate an HIA into standard planning processes such as comprehensive plan updates, scenario planning, and the preparation of environmental impact statements. Workshop participants will also learn about local resources for public health data and expertise, and about strategies other than HIA for integrating public health data and expertise in a planning project in cases where conducting a full HIA is not feasible or appropriate.
Because many planning-focused conferences and publications have begun including discussions of the relationships between planning and health, this workshop will assume that participants will come with a basic understanding of the connections between the built environment and health, and will focus more on HIA methodology, inputs, and outcomes, and related nuts-and-bolts issues such as resource requirements, data sources, and project management issues. In addition to hearing presentations by public health professionals, participants will also hear from planners who have worked on projects with an HIA component, and will “learn by doing” by taking planning case studies through some key HIA steps.
The agenda involves the following schedule, yielding a total of 6.5 CMs for the day:
8-8:30 Refreshments
8:30-10:00 Workshop Part 1 (1.25 CM)
10:00-12:00 Workshop Part 2 (1.75 CM)
12:00-1:00 Workshop Part 3 (0.5 CM)
1:00-4:30 Workshop Part 4 (3.0 CM)
More Instructors: Steve White Steve White, MURP, is a project manager for Oregon Public Health Institute’s Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and Healthy Community Planning Initiatives. His work at OPHI focuses on assessing and improving the connection between the built environment and health, primarily through the use of HIA. Steve has completed multiple HIAs on plans and projects in the housing, land use, and transportation sectors. His works brings together a diverse group of partners representing land use and transportation planning, urban design, affordable housing, natural resources protection, local and state decision makers, academic researchers, and numerous community organizations. In addition to conducting HIAs, Steve also provides training and technical assistance to other organizations conducting HIA, and has presented on HIA at numerous local and national planning conferences. Prior to joining OPHI, Steve worked on a GIS project to assess and improve food access in Portland and conducted research on active transportation behavior and Safe Routes to School programs. Steve received his Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University, with a dual focus on land use and transportation planning. Noelle Dobson Noelle Dobson, MPH, is Associate Director for Oregon Public Health Institute. Her work focuses on policy and environmental change strategies that address the connection between the built environment and health, with an emphasis on promoting active living and healthy eating. She is currently involved in integrating health into Portland’s Comprehensive Plan Update and developing a set of tools to measure progress on health and equity indicators. Ms. Dobson also directs OPHI’s Health Impact Assessment Initiative that is examining the health impacts of transportation, land use, and housing policies and projects. Ms. Dobson received her Masters in Public Health from Portland State University’s School of Community Health, with a focus on Advocacy and Social Change. Prior to her work with Oregon Public Health Institute she coordinated a community-based research project to assess environmental health hazards for low-income residents in North Portland. (11 Ratings)
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