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Health, wellbeing, and HIA:

Working better, working smarter

University of Otago | Dunedin, New Zealand 17th-19th November 2010

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If you have specific questions, please contact conference organisers: hia2010@otago.ac.nz

Conference Themes

1. HIA practice in Asia and the Pacific: what works and what doesn’t
   • Critical reflection on HIA practice and lessons for future applications including:
     • Reviews and evaluations of HIAs
     • Reflection on ways to address health equity in HIA, including equity for women, indigenous peoples and vulnerable communities
     • Novel methods and techniques or improvements to established ones
     • New areas of application
     • Evaluation approaches.
2. Embedding health, wellbeing and equity into government & non-governmental organisations.
   • Critical reflection on embedding health, wellbeing and equity including:
     • Examples of where HIA has been built into procedures and processes for policies outside the health sector
     • Specific strategies for gaining the co-operation and support of people outside the health sector
     • How to develop “ownership” by policy makers
     • Barriers to embedding HIA and ways to overcome them.
3. Best practice in training and capacity building.
   • Critical reflection on ways to train and build capacity in HIA including:
     • Different approaches to training potential or current HIA practitioners
     • Raising awareness and understanding among stakeholders
     • Training in addressing health equity within HIA
     • Effective ways to reach different target groups.
4. Indigenous-led HIA: Whānau ora HIA and other similar approaches.
   • Critical reflection on indigenous-led HIA including:
     • Experience with applying Whānau Ora HIA and other indigenous HIA approaches
     • Consideration of the benefits, opportunities, barriers, and facilitators of indigenous-led HIA
     • Consideration of the adaptation of core concepts, methods and techniques to an indigenous context.
5. Working effectively with other forms of impact assessment.
   • Critical reflection on linking HIA and other forms of impact assessment including:
     • Conceptual links with social/cultural/ecological/etc forms of impact assessment, through health determinants
     • Integration versus stand alone approaches
     • Practical issues of working across different forms impact assessment
     • Consideration of the status of HIA in decision-making compared with other forms of IA.

Suggestions for other themes, consistent with the overall aim of the conference, will be considered.

To submit a proposal

Send via e-mail to jen@iaia.org. Plain text only; no html or attachments.
In the subject line, write Primary Organizer’s Surname-HIA Theme Forum.
Example: McDonald-HIA Theme Forum.
Submit a Theme Proposal.