International conference: Institutionalising HIA in Europe for better supporting decision-making processes

3-4 June 2025 at the Spanish Ministry of Health

The EUPHA-HIA section is delighted to invite you to register for the conference on “Institutionalising Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in Europe for better supporting decision-making processes“, scheduled for 3 and 4 June 2025 at the headquarters of the Spanish Ministry of Health, at Paseo del Prado 18 – 20, Madrid 28014.

This event is co-funded by the Health Programme of the European Commission, with support of the Spanish Ministry of Health. It aims to foster knowledge, good practices exchange and policy dialogue between public health officers, urban panners and environmental consultants, researchers and policymakers across Europe and beyond for improving an effective and useful institutionalisation of HIA in Europe. In achieving this general goal, the following topics will be addressed:

• Institutionalization of HIA across Europe: practical examples, policy mobilization
• Practical experience of Implementation of HIA in Spain
• HIA and urban planning
• Integrating health in other impact assessments
• Evidence and methods for HIA
• Capacity building in HIA
• Role of HIA in achieving HiAP and the SDGs
• Using HIA inside and outside the health sector

Audience

Open to policymakers, public health and environmental officers, environmental and urban planner consultants, researchers, and other stakeholders interested in health impact assessment or in integrating health considerations into non-health sectors proposals.

Full draft program available here

Call for abstracts

Your contribution, providing your point of view, experience and perspective on the different topics that will be addressed in the different roundtables is important and necessary. You can also contribute by presenting your own experiences on some of the topics described above.

Instructions for abstract available here

Send your abstract to euphahia@gmail.com

Deadline: 7 April 2025. You will be notified if your abstract is accepted for poster walk or pith presentation by 20 April 2025 by E-mail

Registration

Registration is open until 7 May.
Participation fee: 30 EUR.

Payment options:

• PayPal: finance@euphaoffice.org
• Bank transfer to EUPHA bank account at ING:
  IBAN: NL29INGB0007315529
  BIC/Swift: INGBNL2A

Add the follow subject to your payment: Mid-term HIA conference

Travel and accommodation: Participants cover their own costs. Madrid is well connected to major European cities and offers a wide range of accommodation options.

Conference venue

Spanish Ministry of Health
Address: Paseo del Prado, 18, Centro, 28014 Madrid

Check out the conference webpage here.

Recent publication related to HIA

From the presidency of the EUPHA-HIA section, invite all practitioners in HIA to share your experiences and publications, sending us the documents so they can be posted under on our webpage. It is important to build up on others experiences.  Here you have some recent publications.

• Joint Research Centre, Chinchio, E., Martin-Olmedo, P., Di Novi, C., Franco, A., Olvedy, M., Worth, A. and Bopp, S., Quantification of health impacts in EU chemical policy evaluations, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2025. Available at: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC140544/JRC140544_01.pdf
• da Costa, L M. G., Costa, A, Dias Ferreira, A C, Martin-Olmedo, P, & Green, L (2025). Exploring the implementation of health impact assessment in Portuguese Public Health System. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2025.2459980.
• Haigh F, Green L, Hirono K, Mekel OCL, Douglas M. Global priorities in HIA research: a new agenda for the next decade. BMC Public Health. 2025 Feb 26;25(1):791. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-21983-2.
• Douglas MJ, Foster C, McDermott R, Bunse L, Clemens T, Walker J, Green L. Can health impact assessment help tackle commercial determinants of health and support a wellbeing economy? Health Promot Int. 2024 Dec 1;39(6): daae135. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daae135.
• McDermott R, Douglas MJ, Haigh F, Takemon N, Green L. A systematic review of whether Health Impact Assessment frameworks support best practice principles. Public Health. 2024 Aug:233:137-144. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2024.05.008. Epub 2024 Jun 15.
• Green L, Ashton K, Edmonds N, Fletcher M, Azam S, Hughes K, Wheater P, Bellis MA. Determining the Public Health Impact of Climate Change: A National Study Using a Health Impact Assessment Approach in Wales. Int J Public Health. 2024 Apr 24;69:1606972. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2024.1606972. eCollection 2024.
• Lamprecht N, Erlanger TE, Utzinger J, Winkler MS. Prospects and Perspectives of Health Impact Assessment: A Systematic Review of the Peer-Reviewed Literature From June 2007 to January 2023. Public Health Rev. 2024 Apr 16;45:1606649. doi: 10.3389/phrs.2024.1606649. eCollection 2024.

18^th European Public Health Conference 2025 – Investing for sustainable health and well-being

Main conference 12 – 14 November 2025.
Pre-conferences 11 November 2025

From the HIA section we encourage also to participate in this important event sending your abstracts.
Deadline 1^st May. Check out the EPH Conference website here.

From the presidency we are working in promoting several workshops in collaboration with several other sections, but we are also open to help you in promoting any idea of a workshop you have. Do not hesitate to contact us or members of the Sterring Committee.

Piedad Martín-Olmedo, section president
Odile Mekel, section vice-president