Health Impact Assessment

Contributing to the creation of social, economic, and environmental conditions for health and their equitable distribution.  Health impact assessment:

• Assesses plans, projects, programs or policies before they are implemented;
• Predicts the health and health equity impacts of these proposals; and
• Recommends changes to maximise positive health impacts and minimise negative health impacts
• Health Impact Assessment a practical guide

About HIA Connect

The HIA Connect website is a resource for health impact assessment (HIA). HIA Connect is intended to support people and organisations within and beyond the health sector to to develop the skills and experience to undertake and commission HIAs.

The site is maintained by and showcases the HIA work of the  UNSW Research Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity’s HIAConnect Support Unit. We are based at the  University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

The HIA Connect Unit brings together HIA researchers working in different locations.

• At Randwick, core CPHCE and South Eastern Sydney Research Collaboration Hub (SEaRCH) staff, and researchers also associated with the School of Public Health and Community Medicine
• At Liverpool, the Centre for Health Equity Training Research and Evaluation (CHETRE)
• At Camperdown, the Health Equity Research and Development Unit  (HERDU)