Georgetown Mobility Study
This health impact assessment aimed to promote safety, access, health, and mobility. – The creation of this HIA Report was supported by a grant fro...
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The Safe and Supportive Minnesota Schools Act
This health impact assessment assesses the prevalence and severity of bullying, identify the health impacts on students involved, and consider the potential imp...
Northeast New Mexico Adult Reintegration Center
This HIA for San Miguel County and the San Miguel County Detention Center (SMCDC) suggests the (ARC) Adult Reintegration Center can improve community health thr...
Expungement Policy in Kentucky
This health impact assessment reviews the influence that changes to KRS Chapter 431, Kentucky’s existing expungement policy, would have on health. –...
Strategic Housing Code Enforcement and Public Health
This health impact assessment discusses the disconnect between housing and neighborhood development policies and health outcomes in Memphis, Tennessee, focusing...
Parks After Dark
This Health Impact Assessment evaluates the Parks After Dark (PAD), Los Angeles County Gang Violence Reduction Initiative, program’s health impacts and co...
Rondo Land Bridge
This health impact assessment highlighted key findings and recommendations related to green space, physical activity opportunities, and the local economy to inf...
Santiam Canyon Wildfire Recovery
This project assessed the health needs of Santiam Canyon wildfire survivors after the 2020 wildfires, emphasizing environmental, housing, mental and behavioral,...
NYC L-train Shutdown
This health impact assessment to understand how the 15-month shutdown of New York City’s L-Train would affect commuters’ health. – The creatio...
Green Zones in the City of Minneapolis
This health impact assessment was initiated due to a Minnesota state legislation mandate to address health equity specifically. – The creation of this HIA...
Tobacco Retail License Ordinance in Klamath County
This health impact assessment provides information for decision-makers and stakeholders in Klamath County as they consider whether to develop and adopt a tobacc...
City of Auburn Comprehensive Plan Update
The goals of the Auburn Comprehensive Plan Update HIA included strengthening health-related Comprehensive Plan goals and policies and providing guidance to impr...
Marshall GreenStep Cities
This Health Impact Assessment aims to guide the City of Marshall and the GreenStep Committee in prioritizing their participation in the Minnesota GreenStep Citi...
Healthy Retail Food Access in the South Volusia US 1 Corridor
The goals of the HIA are to establish baseline demographic and health data for comparison in long-term monitoring, to determine the degree of need for new healt...
Alabama Avenue Bike Lanes
An HIA on proposed bike lanes in Southeast Washington, D.C. – This Health Impact Assessment Report first appeared in The Cross-Sector Toolkit for Health. ...
Pepco Benning Road Power Plant
An HIA on the effects of toxic chemical exposure from a power plant on neighborhoods in Northeast Washington, D.C.. – This Health Impact Assessment Report...
USDA Proposed Changes to School Nutrition Standards
In 2020, Healthy Eating Research conducted a rapid HIA to inform proposed changes to the USDA’s nutrition standards for school meal programs. The HIA found th...
Injury Liability Protection for Recreational Physical Activity
This rapid HIA examined the potential health effects of a proposed legislative initiative aimed at providing public and private organizations with protection ag...
Off-Premise Alcohol Outlets
This HIA adds to the scope of a previous HIA that examined the relationship between liquor outlets and violence. The project team assessed the relationshi...
Reducing Sodium in the County of Los Angeles
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health conducted an HIA to determine facilitat...
Excessive Revocation in Wisconsin
Human Impact Partners, together with WISDOM and EX-Prisoners Organizing, conducted an HIA on the health impacts of Wisconsin’s revocation system on indivi...
King Street Station Multimodal Hub
This rapid health impact assessment (HIA), produced by a team of University of Washington graduate students, identifies potential health concerns and action ite...
Division Street Gateway
The City of Spokane is redeveloping the Division Street Gateway, a little over a mile of State Highway 2 that runs through the heart of downtown Spokane from it...
Knox County Health Department Community Garden
The purpose of this HIA was to inform policy decisions related to the placement and maintenance of community gardens in Knox County Tennessee. The HIA was used ...
Community Climate Choices
Between 2011 and 2014, the Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division conducted three health impact assessments (HIAs) on elements of Portland Metro’s Cli...
Benton Accessory Dwelling Units
This HIA, carried out by the Benton County Health Department, evaluated a series of policy-change scenarios to amend the existing county code for Accessory Dwel...
Michigan Street Corridor Plan: A Health Impact Assessment
In March 2012, project partners received funding from the Michigan Department of Community Health Division of Environmental Health to conduct a Health Impact As...
Quequechan River Rail Trail Phase 2
In partnership with the Southeastern Regional Planning & Economic Development District (SRPEDD) and Fall River Mass in Motion, the Metropolitan Area Plannin...
Oasis on Ballou Mixed-Use Development
This HIA, conducted by Health Resources in Action, examined the impacts of a proposed multi-use development of land parcels in Boston’s Dorchester Codman ...
Eagle Pathways and Trails Plan
With funding from St. Luke’s Foundation, Vitruvian Planning and the Eagle (Idaho) Parks and Recreation Department conducted an HIA to understand how the city...
Georgia Qualified Allocation Plan for Low-Income Housing Tax Credits
This health impact assessment, or HIA, will inform the 2015 Georgia Qualified Allocation Plan for low-income housing tax credits. The plan is required each year...
Fort McPherson Interim Zoning
The HIA addressed the health effects of zoning provisions on the nearby residents’ nutrition, physical activity and social cohesion during the interim-use...
City of Decatur Community Transportation Plan
The Georgia Tech Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development conducted a rapid health impact assessment (HIA) on the Decatur, Georgia, Community Transpor...
Buford Highway and NE Plaza Redevelopment
An HIA that examined the expected health benefits of proposed highway design changes (e.g., reducing lanes, adding sidewalks, medians, bike lanes and on-street ...
Atlanta Regional Plan 2040
The first-ever HIA on a major metropolitan transportation and comprehensive growth plan will be led by the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (C...
Tice Community Connectivity and Redevelopment
The Florida Department of Health in Lee County conducted an HIA of community-driven alternatives to the county’s neighborhood connectivity plan for the Ti...
State Route 50 Bus Rapid Transit
MetroPlan Orlando, in partnership with the University of Central Florida and the Winter Park Health Foundation, conducted the first transportation HIA in centra...
Loch Haven Park Improvement Plan
The City of Orlando, Florida recently acquired an additional two acres to expand Loch Haven Park, a 45-acre park established in the 1930s and home to many of Or...
The Long Road Home: Decreasing Barriers to Public Housing for People With Criminal Records
Historically, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development policies have exposed people with a criminal history and their families to eviction and denial of...
Merced County General Plan Update
Two options for the county’s General Plan Update were being considered: one that focused development in existing urban areas and another that would allow ...
Measure H: Preventing and Reducing Homelessness in Los Angeles County
The LA County Department of Public Health conducted an HIA to evaluate the potential health impacts of Measure H, a ballot initiative that would raise LA County...
North Birmingham Community Framework Plan
The School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology conducted a rapid HIA to support healthy development in North Birmingham, Alabam...
State Route 520 Bridge
The Seattle and King County Public Health Department, in collaboration with the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, conducted an HIA to evaluate the health impacts of...
Clark County Highway 99 Sub-Area Plan
The Clark County Community Planning Department in Vancouver, Washington, developed a Sub-Area Plan to revitalize Highway 99 and surrounding neighborhoods. Clark...
Proposed Opioid Pre-Authorization Policy in Utah
Public health graduate students at Brigham Young University conducted an HIA to analyze the potential health effects of a bill proposed in the Utah Legislature ...
Legalizing Medical Marijuana Through the Utah Medical Cannabis Act
Public health graduate students at Brigham Young University conducted an HIA to analyze potential health effects of the Utah Medical Cannabis Act (UMCA), a ball...
Muskegon County Jail
This HIA seeks to inform decisions around the construction of a new jail and juvenile transition center in Muskegon County Michigan. The HIA will focus on envir...
Baltimore City’s Comprehensive Zoning Code Rewrite
In 2008, the City of Baltimore, Maryland launched a multiyear effort to comprehensively revise the city’s zoning code, which had not been updated for fort...
Alachua County Transportation Access to Healthy Food Sources
The University of Florida Department of Urban and Regional Planning, in partnership with the Florida Department of Health, conducted a rapid health impact asses...
California Senate Bill 622: Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax
Community Health Councils Inc., along with other members of the Los Angeles County Healthy Community Collaborative, conducted a health impact assessment (HIA) o...
South Los Angeles Fast Food Restaurant Density
Community Health Councils, Inc. conducted a health impact assessment (HIA) to analyze the impact of current policies regulating the density of fast food restaur...
Humboldt County General Plan Update
The HIA addressed an update of the Humboldt County General Plan. Three growth alternatives to accommodate future population were being considered in the General...
Farm to School Coordinator in Arkansas
The Childhood Obesity Prevention Research Program at Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, with technical assistance from Upstream Public Health, conduc...
Pinal Creek Trail
The Gila County Division of Health and Emergency Management and Paramount Public Health Services conducted an HIA of a proposed trail along a portion of the Pin...
2002 Federal Farm Bill
An HIA that focused on how the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (the 2002 Farm Bill) might affect health. The HIA explored health impacts on dieta...
Marijuana Regulation in Vermont
This is a health impact assessment that analyzed the potential effects on the health of Vermont residents of regulating and taxing adult marijuana use.
Fitchburg-Nine Springs Golf Course
Public Health Madison and Dane County, Wisconsin, conducted an HIA of proposed updates to the master plan for a 33-acre city park property, currently used as th...
Derby District Redevelopment
The HIA looked at the proposed redevelopment of the Derby District in Colorado’s Commerce City commercial core. The HIA considered how the redevelopment m...
Family Responsibility Statements in Judicial Decisions
The Special Project for Families Affected by Incarceration and the Louisville Department of Public Health and Wellness conducted an HIA to examine the impact of...
South Thornton Revitalization Subarea Plan
In 2011, a Colorado-based nonprofit conducted an HIA to determine the impact of South Thornton’s revitalization subarea plan on healthy eating and active ...
Planning for Parks, Green Space, and Trails in Greenville’s West Side
The HIA recommended that the city take steps to mitigate the potential effects of gentrification and displacement, such as making adequate affordable housing st...
Menu Labeling
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health conducted an HIA to investigate how 2007 California Senate Bill 120 and 2008 Senate Bill 1420 could impact th...
Colorado Statewide Regulatory Structure for Retail Marijuana
The Colorado School of Public Health and Colorado’s Children’s Hospital conducted a rapid health impact assessment (HIA) on the final regulatory str...
North Yahara Future Urban Development Area
In fall 2011, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded the Wisconsin Capital Region a $2 million, three-year Sustainable Community Reg...
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
This HIA informed the Illinois General Assembly’s deliberations on legislative proposals to seek a waiver from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) t...
Oregon Farm-to-School Legislation
Upstream Public Health, a public policy non-profit based in Portland, Oregon, conducted a novel health impact assessment (HIA) of proposed legislation in Oregon...
Nuisance Abatement Plan in Superior, Nebraska
The South Heartland District Health Department, with technical assistance from the Douglas County Health Department and Human Impact Partners, conducted an HIA ...
Child and Adult Care Food Program Nutrition Standards
The Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, conducted an HIA to inform th...
Hartford Neighborhood Revitalization and Sustainability Plan
Community Solutions, with Michael Singer Studio, conducted an HIA of the development of a revitalization and sustainability plan for Northeast, a neighborhood i...
Massachusetts Proposed Expungement Bill
This rapid health impact assessment (RHIA) evaluated the mental health effects of Massachusetts bill S. 900, which proposed to require that the state expunge cr...
Food System Planning in Davidson, North Carolina
Davidson Design for Life conducted a health impact assessment of the existing food environment in Davidson, North Carolina. The HIA sought to inform partnering ...
Maricopa County Sodium and Nutrition Standards Procurement Policy
Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) conducted an HIA to evaluate county departments’ food procurement policies and nutrition and sodium st...
Minnesota Drug Sentencing Reform
The Council on Crime and Justice conducted an HIA to inform the Minnesota State Legislature’s decision to reform state drug sentencing laws by providing e...
Alcohol Outlet Density in the Greenbush-Vilas Neighborhood, Madison, Wisconsin
The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute conducted a health impact assessment (HIA) of an Alcohol Limiting Density Ordinance (ALDO) to determine ...
Addressing Mental Health and Physical Activity in K-12 Children in Colorado Springs
The Colorado School of Public Health and Children’s Hospital Colorado collaborated on a pilot project to integrate HIA into hospital community benefit act...
Fresh Foods Market in Central City New Orleans
Once a vibrant commercial corridor, the communities along Claiborne Avenue in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans have suffered economic divestment sin...
Earned Income Tax Credit in Arkansas
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, in partnership with Children’s HealthWatch, conducted an HIA to examine the potential health effects of crea...
Raising the Legal Tobacco Purchase and Use Age to 21 in Utah
Utah legislators were urged by coalitions and associations to consider raising the legal age of tobacco purchases from 19 to 21. During the 2015 legislative ses...
Alcohol Outlet Density-Marathon County, Wisconsin
The purpose of this HIA was to assess the impact of an alcohol outlet density policy on the community’s health, specifically underage drinking and drinkin...
California Assembly Bill 346: Joint Use Projects and Eligibility for State Assistance
A rapid HIA completed by a student at the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley to examine the potential health outcomes as joint ...
Vancouver Comprehensive Plan Revision
Clark County Public Health conducted a rapid HIA to examine the potential health impacts of Vancouver, Washington’s comprehensive plan revision. The HIA f...
Bullhead City Rotary Park Rapid
A planned expansion of Rotary Park in Bullhead City would feature development of approximately 38 acres to include additional soccer, football, and baseball fie...
Jack London Senior Housing
The HIA addressed a proposed residential and commercial development at the Jack London Gateway (JLG) in Oakland, California. The project included 55 units of lo...
Fort DuPont Redevelopment Project
The Fort DuPont Master Planning and Feasibility Analysis began in October 2012 with the aim of determining the best future use of the underutilized 450-acre sit...
Westerly Creek
As part of their Denver Healthy People 2011 and subsequent Denver Healthy People 2020 initiatives, the City of Denver conducted an HIA of the plans to renovate ...
MacArthur BART Transit Village
MacArthur Transit Village project was presented in October 2006 at the MacArthur BART Citizen’s Planning Committee meeting. This HIA was conducted by the ...
Executive Park Subarea Plan
The San Francisco Department of Public Health conducted an HIA to look at the health impacts of a proposed 2, 800-unit new residential area on 71 acres in the s...
Developing the Behavioral Health Workforce in Merced County, California
Between 2018 and 2020, a team of Merced health providers, educators, researchers, and community advocates conducted an HIA to understand the impact of workforce...
Hawai’i County Agriculture Development Plan
The current Hawai‘i County Agriculture Development Plan (the Agriculture Plan) was commissioned by the Hawai‘i County Department of Research and Development...
Marijuana Policies Related to Child Abuse and Neglect in the State of Colorado
The Pediatric Injury Prevention Education and Research Program at the Colorado School of Public Health, in collaboration with Children’s Hospital Colorado...
Legalizing Medical Marijuana in Kansas
The Kansas Health Institute conducted an HIA of potential health effects of legalizing medical marijuana in the state. The HIA examined five factors that could ...
Retail Cannabis Regulation in Los Angeles County
In 2017, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors requested that the county Department of Public Health (DPH) assess the potential health equity implications...
Safe Routes to School Health Impact Assessment of Skiles Test and Crestview Elementary Schools
Indiana University Department of Public Health, in partnership with the Marion County Health Department, the Indianapolis Parks and Recreation Department, Binfo...
New Mexico Food Tax
New Mexico Voices for Children completed an HIA of a proposed tax on food in the state. In 2004, the New Mexico Legislature exempted food from the gross receipt...
Urban Agriculture Overlay District
This HIA analyzed the potential health effects of implementing an Urban Agriculture overlay district, which would introduce intense farm uses such as livestock,...
Food Deserts in Tennessee-HIA of SB 1176
The Prevention Research Center in St. Louis, in partnership with the Tennessee Obesity Taskforce, conducted a rapid HIA of Tennessee Senate Bill 1176, the Tenne...
Tobacco Retail Licensing Policy
Upstream Public Health and the Oregon Health Equity Alliance conducted an HIA to examine the potential racial, social, environmental, and economic health equity...
Shared-Use Roosevelt-School Properties as Community Space
The Maricopa County Department of Public Health conducted an HIA to inform the Roosevelt School District Governing Board and superintendent as they considered a...
National Nutrition Standards for Snack and a la Carte Foods and Beverages
The 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to align nutrition standards for all foods and beverages sold in schoo...
Potential Health Effects of Changes to the Kansas Liquor Control Act
This HIA was conducted to inform the state’s decision on whether to revise the Kansas Liquor Control Act to allow convenience and grocery stores to hold r...
Restorative Justice in San Diego
The Mid-City Community Advocacy Network (MCC) conducted an HIA to inform proposals by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and the San Diego City Council t...
Hamilton Springs Transit-Oriented Development
In 2012, construction crews broke ground on Middle Tennessee’s first transit-oriented development. The developer was interested in possibly including a school...
Winona County Active Living Plan
In 2014, Winona County Community Services produced a countywide Active Living Plan to provide direction on policies and practices that create active communities...
Alcohol Retail Outlet Density Policy in Utah
During the 2014 legislative cycle, Utah legislators intended to revisit alcohol regulations that many stakeholders felt were outdated. These included a limit on...
Potential Full-Service Grocery Store Development in a Food Desert
Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health, along with the Marion County Public Health Department and Indiana Minority Health Coalition, conducted a h...
East Greeley and Weld County
The Weld County Department of Public Health & Environment conducted a rapid health impact assessment of the East Greeley and Weld County Study Area to estab...
Treatment Alternatives to Prison
WISDOM, in collaboration with Human Impact Partners, conducted an HIA to project the potential health impacts of scaling up Treatment Alternative Diversion (TAD...
Mo’omomi Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Area
The Kohala Center conducted an HIA of a pending decision by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources to designate the Mo’omomi fishery area on ...
California Proposition 47: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act
Human Impact Partners conducted an HIA of California Proposition 47, The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, which appeared on the November 2014 state ballot. P...
Demolition of a Lead Painted Bridge Adjacent to a Residential Area
The demolition of a 60-year-old lead painted bridge in Cincinnati is expected to affect a significant number of residents in the neighborhood next to the struct...
2013 U.S. Farm Bill Reauthorization
Federal spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was a central dispute during the 112th and 113th Congressional deliberations over the F...
Street Vendor Legalization and Student Nutrition in South Los Angeles
Community Health Councils Inc. conducted an HIA of a proposal to offer permits for sidewalk vending in Los Angeles, focusing on how legalizing vendors could cha...
Alcohol Outlet Density in Mendocino County
Mendocino County is classified as a moratorium county under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Business and Professional Code 23817.5: the ratio of Type 20 off-sale...
Milton U.S. 7 Corridor
The Burlington District Office of the Vermont Department of Health, in collaboration with the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, the Town of Milton...
Language Interpretation Services in Kern County, California
California Rural Legal Assistance Inc. conducted an HIA to examine the health impacts on indigenous Mexican residents of Kern County, California, of access to a...
Trenton Farmer’s Market
This HIA considered three alternative scenarios for proposed changes to a farmer’s market in Trenton, New Jersey. The scenarios under review by the market...
Excessive Revocation in Wisconsin
This is a health impact assessment that examines the impact of Wisconsin’s prison revocation system, which involves reincarceration for violations of comm...
Knox County Health Department Community Garden
This is a health impact assessment that focuses on the placement and maintenance of community gardens in Knox County, Tennessee.