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Health Impact Assessment
Location
Internet
Term
3rd Term
Department
Health Policy and Management
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2025 - 2026
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online with Some Synchronous Online
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Katherine Hirono
Katherine Hirono
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
Introduction to Online Learning. Open to students who have completed 300.712 or 300.610. Students who have not completed either of these courses may enroll with the instructor’s permission.
Enrollment Restriction
undergraduates are not permitted in this course
Introduces students to health impact assessments (HIA), a systematic approach that informs decision-makers about the potential health impacts of proposed projects, programs, and policies that do not traditionally focus on health outcomes (e.g. education or housing), but are likely to affect the public’s health, is rapidly growing in the U.S. as one way to assess potential health impacts and promote health equity. Focuses on the application of HIA for policymaking. Students study the rationale for conducting HIAs, how HIAs fit within the broader concept of Health in All Policies, review a range of analytic methods used to conduct HIAs, analyze cases from international and domestic settings, and walk through the steps of how to conduct a HIA.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Identify how HIA fits within a Health in All Policies approach.
- Appreciate the development of HIA as an approach separate from Environmental Impact Assessments
- Compare the use of HIA internationally and domestically
- Discuss the core steps needed to conduct HIA
- Recognize the range of methodological approaches used to conduct HIA
- Explore the effectiveness and impacts of HIA for decision-making
- Examine the application of HIA to the policymaking process
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 20% Participation
- 30% Written Assignment(s)
- 20% Group Work
- 10% Discussion Board
- 20% Reflection