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Resources for Health Impact Assessment

The section on Tools for HIA provides reviews of a number of manuals and guidelines on conducting health impact assessment along with links to them.

World Health Organisation HIA Website
International

A comprehensive website with network links, examples of HIAs, tools and methods along with an growing section on the use of evidence.


National Health Service HIA Gateway
England

The largest HIA site on the web.  It can be difficult to navigate but it provides invaluable information as well as listings of health impact assessment practitioners.


Health Impact Assessment Unit - Deakin University
Australia

An Australian HIA site with information on HIA training and research. The publications section contains a number of reports and papers.


International Health Impact Assessment Consortium - IMPACT
England

IMPACT is a multi-agency partnership dedicated to the development and practice of HIA.


European Centre for Health Policy
Denmark

Part of WHO Europe, the ECHP developed the Gothenburg Consensus Paper on HIA and has a useful section on health impact assessment.


Public Health Electronic Library
England

Provides information and reports on HIA and HIA-related issues.


Health Impact Assessment Research Unit - University of Birmingham
England

Established to support the development of HIA; provides some useful information.


Strengthening Capacity - The Institute of Public Health in Ireland
Ireland

Hosts several publications on HIA.


Health Impact Assessment - London Health Commission
England

Details extensive work done in developing a a framework and capacity to undertake HIA.


Human Impact Assessment - National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health
Finland

Information on Finnish attempts to integrate environmental and social impact assessment.


Welsh Health Impact Assessment Support Unit - University of Wales
Wales

Information and links on HIA.


Designing and Building Healthy Places
United States

This site was developed by the CDC to provide information and resources on creating healthy environments.


HIA Wiki

http://www.healthimpactassessment.info


Public Health Advisory Committee
New Zealand


Health, Wellbeing & Equity Impact Assessment Unit, Otago University
New Zealand


UC Berkeley Health Impact Group
USA


Human Impact Partners
USA


Monash University Social Health Impact Assessment Website

An Australian site with information on social health impact assessment (SHIA). They also put out a newsletter on SHIA.




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