Training opportunities for Health Impact Assessment
The HIA Support Unit is not a direct provider of HIA training, but it has an important role in supporting the delivery of training as well as presenting about HIA and the role of the HIA Support Unit.
The HIA Support Unit has financially supported the following HIA training to date:
- Introductory and advanced HIA Summer School courses
- Half day and two day Whanau Ora HIA training (see Whanau Ora HIA page)
- Training through the HIA Learning by Doing Fund
- HIA Practitioner workshops.
The HIA Support Unit has presented or regularly presents at the following training:
- Introductory and advanced HIA Summer School courses
- Half day and two day Whanau Ora HIA training (see Whanau Ora HIA page)
- HIA training for public health medicine registrars
- Health protection officer training hosted by the Ministry of Health
- HIA Practitioner workshops.
Types of HIA training in New Zealand
The University of Otago provides two HIA training opportunities in its Wellington Summer School programme.
- The first is a two day introduction to health impact assessment . This course introduces HIA which aids decision-making by predicting the potential effects of policies, programmes and projects on health, wellbeing and health inequalities.
- The second is a two day course on Advanced HIA. The focus of this interactive workshop depends on the needs of the HIA community and current issues. The 2012 workshop focussed on HIA and planning, especially in the context of the Local Government Act and the Resource Management Act.
More information about the programme is available on the University of Otago website.
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Type |
Frequency |
Delivered by |
Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
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Introduction to HIA Summer School |
Annual |
University of Otago’s HIA Research Unit |
Louise Signal |
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Advanced HIA Summer School |
Annual |
University of Otago’s HIA Research Unit |
Louise Signal |
|
Whanau Ora HIA training |
10 half day workshops and 5 two day workshops run in 2008 |
University of Otago’s HIA Research Unit |
hia@moh.govt.nz |
|
HIA training funded through Learning by Doing Fund |
As required |
Local or national HIA training experts or consultants |
hia@moh.govt.nz |
|
HIA training hosted by individual DHBs or public health services |
As required |
Local or national HIA training experts or consultants |
hia@moh.govt.nz |
|
As required |
Hosted regionally on behalf of the HIA Support Unit, with |
hia@moh.govt.nz |
|
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Training for specific professional groups, eg public health medicine registrars,,and where appropriate, designated officers under the Health Act, Environmental Health Officers. |
As required |
|
Training Facilitator for the professional group |
|
Internal training for Ministry of Health staff |
As required |
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hia@moh.govt.nz |
Contact
Christine Stewart at the Ministry of Health
(04) 816 2837
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Page last updated: 15 December 2009
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