Online course:
Introduction to health impact assessment of public policies

National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy – Canada

From May 1-June 1, 2013   -- Registration deadline: March 20, 2013

Website: http://bit.ly/TVQw3f

“….An online course on health impact assessment (HIA) of public policies has been developed by the NCCHPP and the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (Québec's public health institute - INSPQ)

This course aims to help participants to develop and improve their competencies for leading an HIA process relating to public policies, and to do this with partners from different sectors.

The content of the course is structured into three main themes, organized as modules:

·         The historical, methodological and scientific foundations of HIA

·         Producing high quality HIAs

·         Knowledge sharing and decision making.

The first module discusses the evolution of HIA, types of impact assessment and HIA models, the determinants of health, the process of policy making, intersectoral collaboration and public participation. At the end of the module, students will be able to:

·         Present the evolution of HIA

·         Present the different types of impact assessment and HIA models

·         Identify the determinants of health in a scenario

·         Determine the place of HIA within the stages of policy-making analysis

·         Select a representative intersectoral working group and present the roles of the community in health impact assessment.

The second module deals with the five steps of the HIA process. The quality principles and standards as well as implementation conditions and elements of project management are also presented. The key competencies are:

·         Using screening and scoping tools

·         Producing a logic framework

·         Using information sources available in public health

·         Synthesizing a report

·         Naming quality criteria of an HIA

·         Knowing the contextual elements facilitating a successful application of HIA practice

·         Explaining the process of project management.

The third module is about decision making, knowledge brokering and knowledge sharing. Students will have acquired the following competencies by the end of this module and will know how to:

·         Distinguish the diverse source of information inherent to all decision-making processes

·         Establish the conditions for a transparent and non-technical report in order to inform decision making

·         Determine if a knowledge-sharing plan responds adequately to the needs and the level of the audience for whom the HIA is intended. …”

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