Training and Mentorship

Collaborative members regularly provide presentations, lectures, and workshops on HIA, as well as provide technical support to practitioners nationally and mentor graduate student applied HIA research projects. UC Berkeley faculty teaches the only masters-level HIA course in the United States and also conducts evaluations of HIA practice. SFDPH teaches a four day HIA mini-course geared to prospective practitioners, and HIP regularly conducts HIA workshops and trainings to help stakeholders initiate new HIA projects.

Below we list our major HIA training and mentorship opportunities, including brief descriptions of each as well we where to go for more information.

Training and Mentorship Opportunity	Provided by	Summary	Contact Info
Human Impact Partners' 2-Day HIA Training	HIP	The overall goal of HIP’s HIA training is to provide participants with the experience and knowledge about procedures and tools available to effectively conduct HIA and use HIA findings. Over two days, the training covers the HIA process and essential steps; offers facilitated group exercises to practice moving through the steps of an HIA in the context of relevant case study examples; provides information about HIA tools and methodologies for analysis; discusses the importance of collaboration and the variety of roles for stakeholders in each of the steps of an HIA; discusses intervention points in regulatory and policy-setting processes where HIA can be applied; and helps strategize about participants’ needs and challenges as they consider conducting HIAs. The training provides a unique opportunity to engage diverse stakeholders in the process of identifying and characterizing the health effects resulting from a proposed policy or project. We typically provide trainings for groups of 30-35 participants who: a) want to work together on a specific HIA or b) want to build local knowledge about HIA across diverse organizational partners with the goal of starting to conduct HIAs. See training materials here .	Jennifer Lucky (510) 452-9442 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Human Impact Partners' Technical Assistance and Mentoring Program	HIP	HIP provides technical assistance (TA) and mentoring to organizations conducting HIA. TA and mentoring activities can include: Regular phone meetings to discuss an HIA project; Addressing questions as they arise by phone or email; Sharing HIA resources (e.g., worksheets, toolkits, quantitative tools, and data sources); Reviewing data, documents, methods or other related materials relevant to an HIA; Conducting research for the HIA assessment phase; and, In-person site visits to facilitate HIA-related meetings and review progress of HIA projects, or web-based informational sessions about conducting HIA. Click here for examples of current and past TA projects. Click here for more information about HIP's HIA capacity building program.	Jennifer Lucky (510) 452-9442 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
UC Berkeley School of Public Health HIA Course	UC Berkeley	This graduate level course is jointly provided by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Department of City and Regional Planning to students enrolled at UC Berkeley. The goal of this course is to expose students to the rationale, practice and potential of HIA with a focus on its application to California’s land use and transportation policy-making. In this course, students consider the reasons for doing HIA, review a range of HIA case studies and analytic methods, and consider the potential of HIA as well as the needs and challenges for practice development. As a class project, students also critically evaluate a local, regional, or state policy, project, or plan, identifying health benefits and consequences, potential approaches to quantify or qualify how the project may change health determinants, and recommendations for alternatives or improvements. See course syllabus here. The UCB course is offered the spring semester of each academic year.	Rajiv Bhatia (415) 252-3931 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Jason Corburn (510) 643-4790 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Edmund Seto (510) 642-9219 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
HIA Practitioners Summer Training Course	SFDPH	This 4-day course is provided annually in San Francisco, CA. The overall goal is to provide current and future practitioners of HIA experience with the procedures, regulations, and tools available to implement HIA practice. The course provides an overview of the HIA process and essential steps; explains the regulatory environment for HIA in the United States; explores case studies that reflect a range of practice types and policy contexts; facilitates group exercises in screening and scoping; provides hands-on experience with specific HIA tools and methodologies; considers obstacles and opportunities for the growth of the field; and strategizes needs for field development and practice in participant jurisdictions. See examples of training materials here. The training course is generally provided in the early Summer.	Megan Gaydos (415) 252-3919 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
HIA internship opportunities	HIP, SFDPH, UC Berkeley	All Collaborative members hire student interns to support various HIA efforts. Many internships are facilitated through UC Berkeley's Center for Public Health Practice. Internships arranged outside of this process are also available.	HIP: Kim Gilhuly, (510) 740-0142, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it SFDPH: Megan Gaydos (415) 252-3919 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it UC Berkeley: Edmund Seto, (510) 642-9219, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it