In October, 2008, in the context of the first North American Conference on Health Impact Assessment (HIA) held in San Francisco (U.S.A.), a working group was established in order to propose standards that would most likely ensure good practice. This decision was made...

With the goal of sharing the various experiences that form HIA as it is practised in Canada, the NCCHPP presents information about different initiatives in the field. Among these is the PATH (People Assessing Their Health) network initiative in Nova Scotia. In 2008,...

In order to assist HIA practitioners in Canada and increase capacity in Health Impact Assessment (HIA), the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) asked Habitat Health Impact Consulting to develop a Canadian HIA course. The first task was to...