Activities organized by EUPHA-HIA section for the 17th European Public Health Conference, “Sailing the waves of European public health: exploring a sea of innovation”

Lisbon Congress Center, Portugal, 13 - 15 November 2024”

Dear subscribers,

The 17^th edition of the EPH conference, which will be held this year in the beautiful city of Lisbon (Portugal) between 12th and 15th November, will allow us to discover important innovation and novelties in a wide range of public health topics. Below we share with you the initiatives that, together with other EUPHA sections, EU organizations, public administrations and universities, we have worked on from the Health Impact Assessment section. We invite you to join those sessions, to learn or deepen the different aspects that HIA covers. HIA requires of a multidisciplinary approach, so many different PH workforce's profiles are relevant and has a place in its implementation. Come and discover how much you can say and contribute for the development of healthy public policies, strategies and programs by applying HIA.

Looking forward to seeing you in Lisbon.

Piedad Martín-Olmedo, President & Odile Mekel, Vice-President

PROGRAM RELATED TO SPECIFIC HIA INITIATIVES

Wed 13 November, 10:30 - 11:30 in Room 1.13

2.P. - Scientific session: Improving health impact assessment in the context of EU policy cycle

Organized by: EC JRC; EC DG-SANTE, EUPHA-HIA, -EPI, -PHPP, -ENV, -ECO, -FS

Chairperson(s): Piedad Martin-Olmedo (EUPHA-HIA), Stefania Boccia (EUPHA-EPI)

• Health impacts methodology in the European Commission. Vitus-Cornelius Van Rij (DG. SANTE, Belgium)
• Applying knowledge translation for an effective use of Burden of Disease. Henk Hilderink (EUPHA-FS)
• Role of epidemiology in the EU policy formulation of chemicals. Eleonora Chinchio (EC-JRC, Ispra, Italy)
• (Panellists). Marleen Bekker (Netherlands).

Wed 13 November, 14:00 - 15:00 in Room 3A

JTN8 - Health impact assessment - Join the network

Chairperson(s): Piedad Martin-Olmedo (EUPHA-HIA) & Odile Mekel (EUPHA-HIA)

Steering Committee: Rainer Fehr (University of Bielefeld, Germany); Luciana costa (Instituto Naconal de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Portugal); Liz Green (Wales Health Impact Assessment Support Unit Wales, Public Health Wales, UK); Ben Cave (Ben Cave Associates Ltd, England, UK)

• Objectives:
• Presentation of activities during 2024
• Discussion of future actions and collaborations

Wed 13 November 15:15 - 16:15 in Room 5B

3.E. - Scientific session: Environmental Health Tracking Systems: a tool for planetary health

Organized by: EUPHA-HIA, INPHET, EUPHA-ENV, -PHMR

Chairperson (s): Piedad Martin-Olmedo (EUPHA-HIA), Peter Van Den Hazel (EUPHA-ENV)

• The INPHET- a global approach to Environmental Public Health Tracking. Fuyuen Yip (United States)
• Environmental Public Health Tracking in England- support for Health Impact Assessments. Helen Crabbe (England, United Kingdom)
• EHT and environmental justice at EPA Victoria: Aspirations and regulatory realities. Timothy Chaston (Australia)
• (Panellists) Hanna Tolonen (EUPHA-PHMR)

Wed 13 November 15:15 - 16:15 in Room 3A

3.F. - Round table: Legal action & capacity building: essential for climate action to protect and promote public health

Organized by: Aletta Jacobs SPH, ASPHER, EUPHA-ENV, -GH, -HIA, -LAW, FPH, GCCHE

Chairperson(s): Laurent Chambaud (France), Mary Codd (Ireland)

• David Patterson (Netherlands)
• Farhang Tahzib (EUPHA-ETH)
• Liz Green (United Kingdom)
• Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes (United Kingdom)

Wed 13 November 16:45 - 17:10 in Room 0.08

4.Y.1. - Climate trauma, public protest and the ethics of civil disobedience in our warming world (panel discussion)

Organized by: Aletta Jacobs SPH, ASPHER, EUPHA-LAW, -ENV, -HIA, -PMH, -GH, FPH, GNAPH

Chairperson(s): Piedad Martin-Olmedo (EUPHA-HIA), Brigit Toebes (Netherlands)

• Jutta Lindert (EUPHA-PMH)
• David Patterson (Netherlands)
• Farhang Tahzib (EUPHA-ETH)

Thu 14 November, 09:00 - 10:00 in Room 1.13

5.P. - Oral presentations: Understanding environmental, social and individual factors

Chairperson(s): Dilek Aslan (Türkiye), Ana Margarida Alho (Portugal)

• Capturing the health and well-being impact of climate change: a health impact assessment in Wales
  Liz Green (United Kingdom)

Thu 14 November, 11:45 - 12:45 in Room 1.13

6.P. - Scientific session: Economic evaluation of health impacts for better decision choices

Organized by: EUPHA-HIA, -FS, -ECO, -PHPP, Bath Uni, RIVM

Chairperson(s): Piedad Martin-Olmedo (EUPHA-HIA), Henk Hilderink (EUPHA-FS)

• Cost-benefit analysis: just a step in the HIA process. João Vasco Santos (EUPHA-ECO)
• Social Cost Benefit Analysis – a powerful tool for decision-making. Ardine De Wit (Netherlands)
• Informing healthy urban policy making through quantitative health impact appraisal – a co-designed approach. Alistair Hunt (United Kingdom)
• (Panellists) Odile Mekel (EUPHA-HIA)

Thu 14 November, 15:15 - 16:15 in Room 1.13

7.P. - Skills building seminar: Using health impact assessment for assessing tobacco control policies

Organized by: EBoDN, EUPHA-HIA

Chairperson(s): Brecht Devleesschauwer (Belgium), Piedad Martin-Olmedo (EUPHA-HIA)

• Calculating potential impact fractions to assess the impact of tobacco control policies. Ute Mons (Germany)
• DYNAMO-HIA: A health impact assessment tool fit for quantifying tobacco control policy. Stefan Lhachimi (Germany)
• Populating HIA of tobacco policies with empirical evidence on behavioural response to price increases. Ardine De Wit (Netherlands)
• Mind the gap: from real-world policies to health impact assessment modelling. Sarah Croes (Belgium)

POSTERS

1. Trade as a commercial determinant of health: The health impact of a free trade agreement on Wales. Liz Green (UK)
2. Health Impact Assessment (HIA): a tool to drive health in all policies? Liz Green (UK)
3. Developing a Community Engagement Toolkit for Health Impact Assessment
   Kirsty Nash, Tara Kenny, Ben Harris-Roxas, Monica O'Mullane
4. Realising the health benefits of City Development Plans in Ireland: The process and influence of HIA
   Tara Kenny, Kirsty Nash, Ben Roxas-Harris, Sheena McHugh, Liz Green, Paul Kavanagh, Monica O’Mullane.