EQUINET Online training building HIA capabilities
Project Details
Health impact assessment (HIA) seeks to maximise the positive health impacts and minimise the negative health impacts of proposed policies, programs or projects. HIA ensures that proposals do not inadvertently damage health or reinforce inequalities. HIA uses a wide model of health and works across sectors to provide a systematic approach for assessing how the proposal affects a population, with particular emphasis on the distribution of effects between different subgroups within the population. Recommendations can specifically target the improvement of health for vulnerable groups.
Nossal Institute of Global Health is working with Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC) and regional partners ECSA Health Community, SATUCC and TalkAB[M]R to contribute to development and delivery of elements of the online training aimed at building HIA capabilities in ESA countries.
The capacity building program will build understanding of the theoretical basis of HIA, and knowledge of the methods, evidence, analysis in an HIA, of reporting of and engagement on HIA, and implementation and monitoring of proposed actions. It will provide mentored guidance of participant HIA practical work, using real HIA case studies, and discuss implementation issues and strategies for scaling up and integrating HIA in law.
The training sessions aimed at state, non- state, labour and professional actors from different ESA countries. Visit the EQUINET for further information.
Researchers
Collaborators
Course collaborators
Dr Rene Loewenson TARSC (course convenor)
Dr Carlos Dora
Mr Nathan Banda, SATUCC
Ms Connie Walyaro, TalkAB[M]R
Prof Yoswa Dambisya, ECSA Health Community
Funding
This project is funded by
EQUINET
Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC)
TARSC, OSPC