Institutionalising HIA in Europe for better supporting decision-making processes

Aim

The EUPHA Health Impact Assessment Section invited you to this event, which 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.

Audience

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.

The full program with abstracts is available here

Presentations

INAUGURAL“How far have we come with HIA and what are the challenges to move forward?”
Margaret Douglas, consultant in Public Health, Public Health Scotland

ROUD TABLE ONE: Mapping legal frameworks for HIA institutionalisation in Europe
Chair: Ben Cave, founder at BCA Ltd (UK & Ireland) & Honorary Professor, University of Liverpool
Co-Chair: Sofia Ribeiro, president of EUPHA-PHPP section (Lisbon, Portugal)

Scott Burris, Center for Public Health Law Research. Temple University (Philadelphia, USA)
Nicola Evans, Health of Health Inequalities, Public Health Division, Welsh Government (UK)
Gabriele Gruber project coordinator in HIA, HiAP and health equity at the Austrian National Public Health Institute (Österreich)
Nia Giuashvili, National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (Georgia)

ROUND TABLE TWO: HIA institutionalisation in Spain
Chair: Piedad Martín-Olmedo, president of EUPHA-HIA section; professor at EASP (Granada, Spain).
Co-Chair: Rosina M. Olaso Jveschuk, Technical Officer- Spanish Ministry of Health (Madrid, Spain)

Fracisco Vargas, Technical Officer-Ministry of Health (Madrid, Spain)
Francisco J. Falo, Head of the HIA Unit. Regional Ministry of Health of Government of Aragon (Zaragoza, Spain)
Mercedes Castillo, Technical Officer in Environmental health- Regional Ministry of health of Generalitat Valenciana (Valencia, Spain)
Elena Cabeza, Head of Health Promotion Area- Public Health Directorate. Governs de les Illes Baleares (Mallorca, Spain)
Luis Moya, Expert in HIA, Public Health Directorate. Regional Ministry of Health of Andalusia (Seville, Spain)

ROUND TABLE THREE: Impact assessment integration: health assessment beyond HIA
Chair: Gabriele Gruber, Austrian National Public Health Institute (Vienna, Österreich)
Co-Chair: Miguel Angel Casermeiro, Lecturer at Univ. Complutense Madrid, secretary of the Spanish Society of EIA (Madrid, Spain)

Luis Moya Ruano, Expert in HIA, Public Health Directorate. Regional Ministry of Health of Andalusia (Seville, Spain)
Henk Hilderink, EUPHA-Foresight section, top expert on Population Health Foresight at Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Welfare and Sport (RIVM, Netherlands).
Ana Gil Luciano, Head of the Health Promotion and Equity Area, Spanish Ministry of Health (Madrid, Spain)

ROUND TABLE FOUR: Towards healthier urban planning
Chair: Catherine Pérez, Vice-President EUPHA-Urban Public Health Section; Head of the
Department of Health Promotion. Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona (Spain)
Co-Chair: Piedad Martín-Olmedo, president of EUPHA-HIA section; professor at EASP (Granada, Spain).

Marta Rofin, architect, founder and Director of the urban planning and health consultancy Healthy Cities. Director of the Postgraduate Urban Planning and Health (UPC) and professor of the Master in Health Promotion (UPV-EHU).
Mark Drane, Founder & Director, Urban Habitats and Senior Research Fellow in PublicHealth, Centre for Health & Wellbeing, (UWE Bristol, UK)
Carmen Devesa, Innovation and Internationalization Director. AEICE-Cluster of Efficient Habitat. (Valladolid, Spain).
Elena Marañón, Plans and process office. City council of Bilbao (Bilbao, Spain)

ROUND TABLE FIVE: Evidence and data needed for conducting HIA
Chair: Odile Mekel, vice-president of EUPHA-HIA section, Head of Heathy Settings at LZG-NRW (Germany)
Co-Chair: Francesca Viliani, Health section of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA)

Katie Hirono, School of Social and Political Science. Univ. of Edinburgh (UK)
Natalie Mueller, Assistant Research Professor at ISGlobal (Barcelona, Spain)
Alistair Hunt, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Univ. of Bath (UK)

PITCH PRESENTATIONS: Sharing experiences
Chair: Andrea Pastor, Tragsatec (Madrid, Spain)
Co-Chair: Melissa Sawaya, Health consultant (France)

Sasha Khomenko, Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain.
Jana Loosová, Regional Public Health Authority Liberec (Czech Republic)
Monica O’Mullane, School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Angela Paja, Finance and Administration Manager at Expertise France (France)
Jarmila Pekarčíková, Trnava University, Faculty of Health Care and Social Work, (Trnava, Slovakia)
Francisco Rodriguez Rasero, Joint Research Centre. European Commission (Ispra, Italy)
Kathryn Ashton, Public Health Wales NHS Trust (Wales, UK) (online)

ROUND TABLE SIX: HIA capacity building
Chair: Rosina M. Olaso, Technical Officer- Spanish Ministry of Health (Madrid, Spain)
Co-Chair: Margaret Douglas, Consultant in Public Health, Public Health Scotland

Liz Green, Programme Director for Public Health Wales (UK)
Francesca Viliani, Health section of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA)
Piedad Martin-Olmedo, president of EUPHA-HIA section; professor at Escuela
Andaluza de Salud Pública (Granada, Spain).

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