A really interesting, insightful and successful conference was held in Birmingham on 25th June 2008 to formally re-open and re-launch the HIA Gateway site.
The programme included a range of presentations which can be found at the HIA Gateway site.
Click here to see the conference programme and presentations.
The presentation were:
Why the UK Department of Health supports the HIA gateway
What's in the gateway?
Recent and Future Website Developments
Networks and exchange of ideas among HIA people
HIA in a World of Social Suffering
The contribution of the commercial sector / quality control
Health Impact Assessment in London
Capacity for HIA
To see some pictures from the conference click here. Looking forward to all the other HIA conferences this year.
It looks like it was an interesting event. I like Eva Elliot's presentation, which had some overlap with Gareth William's one at the HIA2007 Asia Pacific HIA Conference last year. I think the idea of how differing meanings are derived and change through HIAs warrants further attention - examining HIA from a constructivist epsiteme instead of the post-positivist stance that is often assumed.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to look into this further and post on it in future.