Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
Resources

The following are external websites that provide useful information and resources about HIAs.

Tools, data, and assessment resources

• Amherst H. Wilder Foundation - Minnesota Compass
  Minnesota Compass measures progress in Minnesota, tracking trends in topic areas such as education, economy and workforce, health, housing, public safety, and a host of others.
• Census Reporter
  As a Knight News Challenge-funded project, this site uses information from the U.S. Census Bureau to provide a user-friendly interface for navigating data.
• Design for Health (DFH) - Tools, Research, and Resources
  DFH bridges the gap between the emerging research base on community design and healthy living and local government planning. One of its four primary avenues is to provide evidence-based tools for conducting HIAs.
• Minnesota Environmental Public Health Data Access Portal
  The Minnesota Public Health Data Access Portal provides public access to Minnesota data about environmental risk factors and public health.
• U.S. Department of Transportation and Centers for Disease Prevention and Control - Transportation and Health Tool
  The Transportation and Health Tool was developed to provide easy access to data that practitioners can use to examine the health impacts of transportation systems.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Community-Focused Exposure and Risk Screening Tool (C-FERST)
  C-FERST is being developed as a community mapping, information access tool to help inform community assessments and decision-making.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJSCREEN)
  EJSCREEN is based on nationally consistent data and an approach that combines environmental and demographic indicators in maps and reports.

Guides, reports, and supporting organizations

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Healthy Places - Assessment Resources
  The CDC HIA resources include a Parks and Trails HIA Toolkit, Transportation HIA Toolkit, and focused issue areas on: Injury, Mental Health, Physical Activity, Respiratory Health, Social Capital, and Water Quality.
• Community Participation in Health Impact Assessments: A National Evaluation
  Human Impact Partners and the Center for Community Health and Evaluation partnered to find out how community members participate in HIAs and what outcomes this participation leads to. Released in January 2016, this report offers new insights related to community participation in the U.S.-based HIA practice.
• Health Impact Project
  The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, is a national initiative designed to promote the use of health impact assessments (HIAs) as a decision-making tool for policymakers.
• Human Impact Partners (HIP)
  HIP works in partnership with communities, public health and academic experts to build capacity to conduct HIAs and strives to create a world in which health is considered in all decision-making.
• Promoting Equity through the Practice of Health Impact Assessment (PDF)
  This report co-authored by PolicyLink and three partner organizations is a tool for advancing health equity in your community through health impact assessment.
• Stakeholder Engagement Tools and Materials
  This resource list is meant to help minimize this risk by providing a list of stakeholder engagement tools and materials for easy reference. The listed tools and materials are useful to any HIA practitioner involved in stakeholder engagement activities.
• The Society of Practitioners of Health Impact Assessments (SOPHIA)
  SOPHIA is an organization serving the needs of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) practitioners in North America and worldwide. SOPHIA aims to provide leadership and promote excellence in the practice of HIA.
• HIA Policy Publications - Health Impact Assessment
  The Learning and Information Center provides information on completed HIAs, methods and resources, training and other topics to support a better understanding of HIA.
• World Health Organization (WHO) 
  The WHO works to promote health across all sectors of activity. Explore the vast resources this website provides to learn about the global importance of conducting HIAs.