National HIA Meeting 2013 - HIA 101 Track

Scoping 101: Defining, Redefining, and Designing your HIA

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This session will focus on the scoping step of HIA and how to identify the health impacts upon which your analysis, findings and recommendations will be focused. Facilitators will describe key points and tools that can be used to generate an HIA scope. The session will also highlight an example of how an HIA project team developed their own HIA scope.

Moderator:

Jimmy Dills, Georgia Health Policy Center

Scoping 101: Defining, Redefining, and Designing your HIA (PDF)

Presentations:

Jimmy Dills, Georgia Health Policy Center

Ruth Lindberg, Health Impact Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Lauren Adkins, CSS‐Dynamic (Contractor to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

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