Workshop 2

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Health Impact Assessment Making the Difference

• Workshop 2
• Chair Martin Birley

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MAKING AN IMPACTBuild Capacity for Health
Impact Assessment in Liverpool
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Sophie GrinnellBEng (Hons), MSc

• HIA Officer/
• Researcher, University of Liverpool

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Overview of presentation

• Welcome..
• Background to project
• Role of the HIA Officer
• Opportunities Challenges
• Personal challenges
• Contextual challenges
• Opportunities

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Welcome.
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Bad bits

• High levels of deprivation
• Recycling/composting
• Stated health is not good
• Car ownership

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Good bits

• Healthy Cities
• Capital of Culture 2008
• World Heritage Status
• Beatles
• Football!!
• Diverse vibrant cultural mix
• Home to HIA

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Liverpools leadingapproach to integrating
Health into all policies

• www.ihia.org.uk

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Background to project

• The project
• 2 ½ years
• Partnership approach

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• Aims develop a HIA culture in Liverpool
  organisations, integrate HIA into policy
  development.
• Objective Build capacity for HIA, support HIAs.

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What the project has done so far..

• HIA Officer installed
• Assessed level of readiness
• High level commitment
• Embed HIA into organisations
• Capacity Build
• HIAs

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How weve done it.

• Baseline Assessment
• Declaration Conference
• Integrated Screening Tool HIA Policy
• HIA Network
• Supported HIAs eg, Action Learning sets.

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Role of HIA officer

• sit within the Forward Planning Policy
  Department of City Council to ensure health is
  incorporated within planning policy eg Core
  Strategy.
• Support HIAs being commissioned within the
  Council PCTs.
• Present papers
• HIA
• Integration of SEA HIA
• Promoting this project

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Challenges/opportunities

• Personal Challenges
• Contextual Challenges
• Opportunities

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Personal Challenges

• What I had to learn-
• Health
• Council
• HIA
• Academia
• What I didnt have to learn-
• Networking

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Contextual Challenges

• Understanding the tiers within the Council
• New situation (role, project)
• New planning system
• Dual role
• Politically hot
• Sustainability
• Commitment

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Opportunities

• High level commitment
• Position - very positively accepted
• Good people HIA champions
• Dual role - networking/partnership
• Knowledge base big(ger) picture

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• Thank you for listening

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7th International Health Impact Assessment
Conference

• Health Impact Assessment
• Making the Difference

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