Conference Updates:
Conference Proceedings
- Proceedings are now available and include presentations and recordings.
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Final program is now available.
Guidelines for Papers and Posters
Key Dates:
- Submission of abstracts (papers and posters) are now closed
- Registration NZ$500 (early bird), NZ$625 (regular)
- Students: NZ$300/NZ$400 respectively
- All presenters need to be registered by now to be listed in the conference programme
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The draft conference programme outline is now available: click here.
Papers are still to be allocated to specific sessions, but this should be available next week.
Although we cannot take any more papers, we have room for a few more posters relevant to the conference themes. We will not be able to guarantee they will be listed in the final programme unless we are notified within the next week or so, but we will add posters to the poster session after that if they are informative and interesting! If interested, email: hia2010@otago.ac.nz
New Zealand-based participants: note there is a (free) pre-conference workshop planned for Tuesday 16th November, to get HIA practitioners (and people interested in HIA practice in NZ) together for productive discussions. Click here for an outline of the purpose and outline programme for the day's activities.
Presentations and Workshops:
Countries represented so far include: New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Canada, Japan, Mongolia, Samoa, India, Bhutan, Pakistan, Philippines, Vanuatu.
Over 40 papers, plus 10 confirmed plenary presentations.
Workshops within the conference:
- HIA and the Gross National Happiness index (Michael Pennock and others)
- Links between HIA and other forms of impact assessment (New Zealand Association for Impact Assessment
- An Asia Pacific Health Impact Forum (Ben Harris-Roxas)
- Experiences with HIA ( Hawkes Bay District Health Board}
- Health impact assessment and public policy (Patrick Harris, CHETRE)
Pre-conference Activities: (all Tuesday 16th Nov 2010)
Australian interjurisdictional meeting (co-ordinated by CHETRE).
New Zealand HIA practitioners day (co-ordinated Christine Stewart, MoH, and Alison Bourn, Canterbury DHB).
One-day HIA capacity building: Pacific Island participants programme.
Keynote Speaker Update:
Other News:
Using a grant from NZAID we are currently working with the Health Ministries in seven Pacific Island countries to identify representatives to bring to the conference. The intention is that this group will form the basis of an emerging Pacific HIA network, to link back into the wider Asia-Pacific network. There will be a day of pre-conference activities with the Pacific group, and we hope they will share a session with the participants from the Thematic Working Group on HIA (see next item) during the conference.
Members of the Thematic Working Group on HIA, a WHO/UNEP regional collaboration to strengthen consideration of environment and health in Asian countries, will be holding a closed workshop on day three of the conference to further the work of the group (implementation of a three year action plan). However, we have programmed two open sessions at which various members of the TWG will discuss the current status of HIA in their respective countries. During the second of these we hope to expand that to include some of the Pacific participants, then move to an open discussion on effective ways to support HIA in developing countries.
- There are plans to hold a social event during the conference to promote the Asia-Pacific HIA network.
- The New Zealand Association for Impact Assessment (NZAIA) will hold its annual general meeting following the workshop it is organising (all NZAIA members in the area welcome to attend the AGM!).
- If sufficient IAIA-Health section members attend the conference there will be a section meeting.
Conference Organising Committee (alphabetical):
- Richard Morgan (chair)
- Rob Quigley
- Louise Signal
- Matt Soeberg
- Megan Tunks
Conference inquiries: hia2010@otago.ac.nz