Incorporating Health Impact Assessment into Community Design and Transportation Decisions
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Description
The design of the built environment, including land use and transportation decisions, affects health in many ways, including its impacts on physical activity, air quality, motor vehicle and pedestrian injuries, social capital, mental health, and environmental justice. Health impact assessment is a new tool that can improve communication between public health professionals and urban planners, transportation planners, and other decision makers so that health issues are more likely to be considered in decisions about community design.
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Presenter
Andrew Dannenberg, MD, MPH, is Team Lead of the Healthy Community Design Initiative in CDC's National Center for Environmental Health, where he oversees activities related to examining the health aspects of community design including land use, transportation, urban planning, and other issues related to the built environment. His current research includes a focus on the use of health impact assessments. He holds faculty appointments at Emory University and at the University of Washington School of Public Health and College of the Built Environments. Previously, Dr. Dannenberg was director of CDC's division for public health training programs, served as Preventive Medicine Residency director and as an injury prevention epidemiologist while on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and worked as a cardiovascular epidemiologist at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Dannenberg received an MD from Stanford University and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University.
Learner Objectives
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
- Define the term health impact assessment (HIA)
- Describe examples of HIAs conducted in the United States
- Recognize opportunities where HIA could be used to promote health in community design and transportation planning decisions
- Define the policy challenges and opportunities associated with these changes
Target Audience
This session would be appropriate for the following audiences:
- Local and state public health practitioners
- Public health nurses
- Local and state emergency management staff
- Local decision makers including boards of health, city/county councils, zoning boards
- Public health students
Slides and Related Resources
Healthy Places - Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Web site
Planning for Health Places with Health Impact Assessments free online course
