Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is formally defined as a combination of procedures, methods and tools that systematically judges the potential effects of a proposed project, plan or policy on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population.  HIA also identifies appropriate actions to manage those effects.  This workshop will cover the basic steps in conducting HIA, and examples of HIAs that include the assessment of impacts on physical activity with a focus on active transportation.  We will include time for discussion of policies, projects or programs of interest to participants and potential data sources and methods for use in predicting health impacts, in addition to other HIA resources and future training opportunities.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the key steps in conducting Health Impact Assessments.
• Increase understanding of HIA methods and potential data sources to estimate the health impacts of proposed policies or projects on physical activity.
• Gain an understanding of potential co-impacts of policies that shift transportation from driving to walking and biking, and how to utilize pathway diagrams to understand those additional health impacts.
• Develop an increased awareness of when health impact assessment is most useful as a policy decision tool, and future training opportunities in HIA practice.