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4 June 2013

HIA Gateway Monthly Update

The HIA Bibliography has recently been updated, April 2013, and 50 new references were added. It is updated quarterly.

3 May 2013

Impact Assessment: The Next Generation, the program of #iaia13 is available

Focus on Health - 14 May

The diversity of HIA practice worldwide is both a challenge and an asset, and the IAIA 2013 Health Day presents an ideal opportunity to facilitate dialogue across HIA practice globally. The Health Day and the other health-related activities will explore the importance of health within the Impact Assessment process, will enable IA practitioners to reflect on key lessons learned through the application of HIA, and will conclude with an examination of how HIA needs to evolve to be a better fit for the challenges ahead.

The one below is just a short summary, check the whole event program and the details of the presentations on the final program. At page 20 you find the details of the Health Day

6.1 Integrating health in impact assessments: Opportunities not to be missed

6.2 The science and art of international: HIA practice: Reflecting the range of HIA practitioners

6.3 The science and art of international: HIA practice: Old issues and new applications

6.4 The science and art of international: HIA practice: Let’s discuss

6.5 The science and art of international: HIA practice: Example from the industry

6.6 Using health impact assessment to achieve sustainable goals

14.6 Community responses to the next generation of energy technologies

See you in Calgary!

HIA Gateway Updates

The HIA Bibliography has recently been updated, April 2013, and 50 new references were added. It is updated quarterly. If you have any relevant published papers you think should be on this list please forward to HIA Gateway We are now part of Public Health England. Public Health England will use use your information (as registered on the HIA Gateway) in the same way as we previously used your information and will not use it for any other purposes. We will ensure these details remain secure. If you no longer wish to continue receiving this monthly email and remain registered with the HIA Gateway, please contact the HIA Gateway: bwh-tr.hia@nhs.net .

28 March 2013

HIA Gateway moving and changing but still staying the same

Fro Dr Sue Wright, HIA Gateway Manager:

The HIA Gateway is moving. It is part The Network of Public Health Observatories group (this was previously known as the Association of Public Health Observatories) but from 1^st April the website (including myself) is moving into an executive agency of the Department of Health, called Public Health England (PHE). The HIA Gateway will become part of the PHE portal (website) and this in turn will be accessed from the English Government Domain website: www.gov.uk . This means that the HIA Gateway is now secure for the foreseeable future.

The term "HIA Gateway" will remain but may become "PHE HIA Gateway" or Public Health England HIA Gateway and existing URLs for the HIA Gateway will still be operational and you will be redirected to the HIA Gateway landing page on the PHE portal.

I am unclear at this stage if the monthly emails will still be sent out nor if and how people will be able to register with the HIA Gateway alone. Registration with the HIA Gateway has ensured you receive a monthly email listing recent resources added to the website.

I will also be contacting those people on the People’s Directory and Contractor’s Directory in the near future to check if they wish to remain on the HIA Gateway now it has moved into PHE.

Thank you for your continuing support and if you have any HIAs or other resources you think relevant to the practice of HIA, MWIA or any other health related Impact Assessment, do please forward these on to me (or if you prefer links to these).

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Take home key points:

The HIA Gateway will become a formalised part of the new national public health agency of England.
www.hiagateway.org.uk will still direct you to the HIA Gateway site as it currently does.
Those using the existing actual URL should check to ensure that they have updated the URL to the new one generated when the site becomes a micro-site of the larger Public Health England website or use www.hiagateway.org.uk.
Please continue to email Sue with your HIAs and other resources so she can put them on the site.

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12 June 2012

New on the HIA Gateway