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Collaborative members regularly provide presentations, lectures, and workshops on HIA, as well as provide technical support to practitioners nationally and mentor graduate student applied HIA research projects. UC Berkeley faculty teaches the only masters-level HIA course in the United States and also conducts evaluations of HIA practice. SFDPH teaches a four day HIA mini-course geared to prospective practitioners, and HIP regularly conducts HIA workshops and trainings to help stakeholders initiate new HIA projects.
Below we list our major HIA training and mentorship opportunities, including brief descriptions of each as well we where to go for more information.
Training and Mentorship Opportunity
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HIA Action Training: How to conduct and use HIA
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HIP |
The overall goal of HIP’s HIA Action Training is to provide participants with experience and knowledge about procedures and tools available to effectively conduct HIA and use HIA findings. Over two days, the HIA Action Training covers the HIA process and essential steps; offers facilitated group exercises to practice moving through the steps of an HIA in the context of a case study example; provides information about HIA tools and methodologies for analysis; discusses the importance of collaboration and the variety of roles for stakeholders in each of the steps of an HIA; discusses intervention points in land use, planning, regulatory and policy-setting processes where HIA can be applied; and helps strategize about participants’ needs and challenges as they consider conducting HIAs. The HIA Action Training provides a unique opportunity to engage community advocates with health experts, decision-makers and other diverse stakeholders in the process of identifying and characterizing health effects resulting from a proposed policy or project.
See examples of training materials here. Contact HIP for more information about how to schedule an HIA Action Training.
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Jennifer Lucky
(510) 740-0143
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UC Berkeley School of Public Health HIA Course
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UC Berkeley |
This graduate level course is jointly provided by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Department of City and Regional Planning to students enrolled at UC Berkeley. The goal of this course is to expose students to the rationale, practice and potential of HIA with a focus on its application to California’s land use and transportation policy-making. In this course, students consider the reasons for doing HIA, review a range of HIA case studies and analytic methods, and consider the potential of HIA as well as the needs and challenges for practice development. As a class project, students also critically evaluate a local, regional, or state policy, project, or plan, identifying health benefits and consequences, potential approaches to quantify or qualify how the project may change health determinants, and recommendations for alternatives or improvements.
See course syllabus here. The UCB course is offered the spring semester of each academic year. |
Rajiv Bhatia
(415) 252-3931
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Jason Corburn
(510) 643-4790
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Edmund Seto
(510) 642-9219
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HIA Practitioners Summer Training Course
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SFDPH |
This 4-day course is provided annually in San Francisco, CA. The overall goal is to provide current and future practitioners of HIA experience with the procedures, regulations, and tools available to implement HIA practice. The course provides an overview of the HIA process and essential steps; explains the regulatory environment for HIA in the United States; explores case studies that reflect a range of practice types and policy contexts; facilitates group exercises in screening and scoping; provides hands-on experience with specific HIA tools and methodologies; considers obstacles and opportunities for the growth of the field; and strategizes needs for field development and practice in participant jurisdictions.
See examples of training materials here. The training course is generally provided in the early Summer. |
Megan Gaydos
(415) 252-3919
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HIA internship opportunities
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HIP, SFDPH, UC Berkeley |
All Collaborative members hire student interns to support various HIA efforts.
Many internships are facilitated through UC Berkeley's Center for Public Health Practice. Internships arranged outside of this process are also available. |
HIP: Kim Gilhuly,
(510) 740-0142,
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SFDPH: Megan Gaydos
(415) 252-3919
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UC Berkeley: Edmund Seto, (510) 642-9219,
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