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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...
Yavapai County Regional Mobility Management Implementation Plan
Yavapai County Community Health Services conducted an HIA of the Regional Mobility Management Implementation Plan for Yavapai County. The plan is designed to im...
Town ‘N’ Country Parks and Recreation
The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County, in conjunction with the Hillsborough County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Conservation and Partn...
Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 (EPA) contracted with Human Impact Partners to develop the scope for a health impact assessment (HIA) of propo...
Family Unity, Family Health: Federal Immigration Policy Reform
Human Impact Partners conducted a health impact assessment (HIA) to assess how current U.S. immigration policy, and specifically the threat of detention and dep...
Mass Transit Funding in California
The Governor of California proposed a budget for FY 2007/2008 that included provisions to reallocate $1.3 billion in gasoline sales tax revenue that had been ta...
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...
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...
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 ...
Project HEAL (Health.Equity.Art.Learning)
The Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness, IDEAS xLab, and the Commonwealth Institute of Kentucky conducted an HIA to examine how implementi...
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...
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...
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...
Roca Honda Mine
The U.S. Forest Service drafted an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on a proposal by Roca Honda Resources to develop and conduct underground uranium mining ...
Bown Crossing Branch Library
Vitruvian Planning LLC conducted a rapid HIA on behalf of Boise, Idaho, that analyzed the potential health effects of building a new library in the Bown Crossin...
South Lincoln Homes
A health impact assessment was completed for a master plan for the South Lincoln housing redevelopment owned by the Denver Housing Authority (DHA). EnviroHealth...
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...
Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program
The U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) undertook an environmental impact statement (EIS) to inform federal offshore oil and gas plans for five years, spanni...
National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Integrated Activity Plan
This HIA is integrated into the Bureau of Land Management’s new integrated activity plan/environmental impact statement (IAP/EIS) that will guide the agen...
Arrest Records in Employment Decisions
This mental health impact assessment, or MHIA, focused on a proposal to update the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Policy Guidance o...
Transitional Jobs Program
The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute conducted an HIA to inform a decision on the status of the Wisconsin Transitional Jobs Program during th...
Maternity Leave in the Palau Workforce
The Palau Health Impact Assessment Working Group, in partnership with Ulkerreuil A Klengar, conducted a rapid health impact assessment of S.B. 9-20-SD2, which w...
Lincoln Park Small Area Plan
The Minnesota Department of Health conducted an HIA of the potential health effects of the small area plan for the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Duluth. The HIA ...
Bloomfield Avenue Complete Corridor Plan
The New Jersey Health Impact Collaborative, in partnership with Together North Jersey, completed an HIA to inform the development of a Complete Corridor plan fo...
US Highway 550 Improvements
This HIA looked at a Department of Transportation proposal to redesign a five-lane, federal highway that runs through the small town of Cuba, New Mexico. This r...
Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) and the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF...
Farmers Field
In 2012, Human Impact Partners worked with the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN), the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA), and Physicians fo...
Ortiz Avenue Road Widening
Researchers from Florida Gulf Coast University, in partnership with the Tice Historic Community Planning Panel, completed a rapid HIA of a road-widening project...
Chukchi Sea Planning Area-Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193 and Seismic Surveying Activities
The U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) proposed to lease offshore areas in Alaska’s northern coastal region, and undertook an environmental impact sta...
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 ...
City Heights Skatepark
Mid-City Community Advocacy Network and its Youth Council worked with Human Impact Partners to conduct an HIA to examine health and equity implications of a ska...
West North Avenue Streetscape Plan
The Baltimore City Health Department conducted an HIA of the West North Avenue Streetscape Plan, an urban redevelopment project for a major east-west corridor i...
Oakland Education to Employment Academy
Youth UpRising conducted an HIA to inform the Oakland school board’s planning and implementation of a secondary, specialized learning academy within a low...
Ice Age Trail Expansion-Marquette County, Wisconsin
The purpose of this Health Impact Assessment (HIA) was to assess the potential health impacts of the expansion of the Ice Age Trail on broad determinants of hea...
Adams Park
Adams Park is a 68 acre greenspace in Omaha, Nebraska located right next to the Malcolm X birth site and two elementary schools. The surrounding community...
East Bay Greenway
The HIA addressed a proposed plan for twelve miles of pedestrian and biking trails under the elevated Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) tracks from East Oakland to ...
Mystic Island Voluntary Buyout Scenarios
Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, in partnership with New Jersey Future and Little Egg Harbor Township, will complete a...
Delridge Corridor Multimodal Improvement Project
University of Washington graduate students, in partnership with the Seattle Departments of Transportation and Planning and Development, conducted a rapid HIA of...
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...
24th Street Road Diet
This HIA assessed a proposal by the City of Omaha to include a center turn lane on South 24th Street – the major corridor through Omaha’s Latino community. ...
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 ...
PlanOKC HIA
The Oklahoma City Planning Department, in partnership with the Oklahoma City-County Health Department and the city Office of Sustainability, conducted an HIA of...
Municipal Water Reuse in Kansas
The Kansas Water Vision plan calls for an evaluation of uses of lower-quality water in the state so the Kansas Health Institute conducted a health impact assess...
Mid-South Regional Greenprint and Sustainability Plan
Memphis and Shelby County Office of Sustainability conducted an HIA as part of the Mid-South Regional Greenprint and Sustainability Plan, funded through a U.S. ...
Eastern Neighborhoods Community Plans
The San Francisco Department of Public Health conducted an HIA in response to community requests in the Mission, South of Market, and Potrero Hill neighborhoods...
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...
Waters’ Edge Development
At the request of the developer, Actual Communities LLC, Safe and Healthy Communities conducted a rapid HIA of Waters’ Edge, a proposed development for re...
Caño Martin Peña
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit in New York City conducted an HIA to inform Puerto Rican policy ma...
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...
Tumalo Community Plan
This HIA was designed to examine the health implications of policies contained within a proposed community plan for Tumalo, Oregon. The Tumalo Community Plan (T...
HOPE VI to HOPE SF: San Francisco Public Housing Redevelopment
The HIA provided a retrospective analysis of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) HOPE VI efforts to rebuild two affordabl...
Zoning and Student Housing in La Plaza Vieja
The La Plaza Vieja Neighborhood Association, residents of Arrowhead Village, Hermosa Vida community organizers, the Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizo...
Sunnydale Public Housing Redevelopment
The San Francisco Department of Public Health is undertaking an HIA to provide information on the planning of a public housing redevelopment. The effort is part...
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...
College Park/University of Maryland Metro and MARC Station TDDP/TDOZ
HIAs are mandated for new development projects in Prince George’s County, Maryland (County Bill CB-41-2011). This legislation builds health into policies, pro...
South Hill Redevelopment
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, in collaboration with the city of Puyallup, conducted an HIA to assess potential health impacts of a proposed redeve...
Mojave Desert Utility-Scale Solar Project
The National Indian Justice Center conducted an HIA of a proposed utility-scale solar project that focused on potential health risks and benefits for neighborin...
Xcel Energy Corridor Trail
The HIA assessed the health benefits and obstacles to the Xcel Energy Corridor Trail. The trail is planned as part of a larger bicycle and transportation plan. ...
Baltimore Red Line
This HIA examined the potential health impacts of a proposal to build a new 14-mile light-rail line in Baltimore. Some of the pathways explored included access ...
Eastside Greenway Project
This health impact assessment will inform and influence planning and implementation decisions related to the establishment of a trail and greenway network trave...
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 ...
University of Southern California Specific Plan
Human Impact Partners, in collaboration with Strategic Actions for a Just Economy and Esperanza Community Housing Corp., conducted a rapid HIA of a proposed 5.2...
Tampa Brownfields Redevelopment Plan
The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County conducted an HIA on the EPA Brownfields Area-Wide Plan, a proposal to redevelop various sites in Tampa&r...
Parks, Recreation, and Public Spaces Plan in Davidson, North Carolina
In 2013, Davidson Design for Life (DD4L) led a health impact assessment (HIA) in partnership with the Davidson Parks and Recreation Department, Kostelec Plannin...
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...
Cowlitz County Coal Export Terminal
Millennium Bulk Terminals is proposing to construct and operate a coal export terminal on a 190-acre site along the Columbia River in Cowlitz County, Washington...
School Discipline Policies
Human Impact Partners conducted an HIA on the health implications of three different approaches to disciplining students in California schools: zero tolerance, ...
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...
Brownsville Neighborhood
Made in Brownsville, a nonprofit based in Brooklyn, New York, conducted a rapid HIA to evaluate the health impacts of three proposed projects in the Brownsville...
Lake Merritt BART Station Specific Plan
The HIA addressed the City of Oakland’s station area planning process for land use improvements around the Lake Merritt BART station in downtown Oakland. ...
Rental Assistance Demonstration Project
Human Impact Partners, Advancement Project, and National People’s Action conducted a health impact assessment (HIA) of Congress’ federal 2011 propos...
Point Thomson Oil and Gas Leasing
This health impact assessment (HIA) aims to identify human health impacts associated with the proposed ExxonMobil development of the Thomson Sand reservoir. The...
Healthy Community Design in Liberty, Missouri
In partnership with the Liberty Community Health Action Team and the city of Liberty, the Clay County Public Health Center used a rapid HIA to determine the hea...
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...
Rochester Bike Share
Common Ground Health selected the Rochester (New York) Bike Share program for an HIA because it experienced rapid expansion during its first year (25 planned st...
Revitalization in Historic Natchez, Mississippi
The Mississippi State Department of Health, in partnership with stakeholders from the city of Natchez and Adams County, conducted an HIA to inform decisions abo...
Lobos CO2 Pipeline
Human Impact Partners, with the New Mexico Department of Health and the Partnership for a Healthy Torrance County, conducted an HIA of a proposed carbon dioxide...
Oak to Ninth Avenue
The University of California Berkeley Health Impact Group conducted an HIA on the ‘Oak to Ninth’ waterfront development project. The proposed projec...
Davidson Walks and Rolls: Active Transportation Master Plan
In 2013, Davidson Design for Life and Alta Planning and Design partnered to incorporate health and social equity modeling and economic analysis on the benefits ...
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...
Pay Equity Policies
With funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Wayne County, MI Department of Public Health completed a health impact assessment (HIA) of a national and sta...
Gary/New Duluth Small Area Plan
This HIA was conducted in parallel to development of the Gary/New Duluth Small Area Plan. The City of Duluth Long-Range Planning developed the small area plan, ...
Choice Neighborhood Transformation Plan for a Community in Albany, Georgia
The Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development at the Georgia Institute of Technology, along with the Georgia Department of Public Health, conducted a h...
SE 122nd Ave Pilot Project/East Portland
This HIA was completed by the Oregon Public Health Institute to inform the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability’s area plan for a neighb...
Madison Heights
The Arizona Department of Health Services (AZDHS), in partnership with the Local Iniative Support Corporation (LISC), the Housing Authority of Maricopa County, ...
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...
Metro Westside Subway Extension (Wilshire Corridor)
The University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, conducted an HIA to...
Housing and Urban Development Designated Housing Rule Update
The Health Impact Project, in partnership with the Oregon Public Health Institute and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, conducted an HIA to inform an upda...
Middlesex Greenway Use and Access Plan
The New Jersey Health Impact Collaborative recently completed an HIA in conjunction with preparation of a plan to increase use and access of a “rails-to-t...
Robbinsville Pedestrian Connectivity Plan
This rapid health impact assessment (HIA) was integrated into the planning process for the Robbinsville (NC) Pedestrian and Greenway Plans. The HIA used researc...
Fitchburg Vacant Lots
The City of Fitchburg, along with the Montachusett Opportunity Council, the Montachusett Regional Planning Council, the Massachusetts Department of Public Healt...
The Effects of Wild Rice Water Quality Rule Changes on Tribal Health
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa conducted an HIA to analyze and explain the importance of wild rice, or manoomin, to the health of the Ojibwe peo...
Kentucky Worksite Wellness Tax Credit
The purpose of the assessment was to evaluate the potential effects of a worksite wellness tax credit on three main areas of concern for Kentucky: (1) nutrition...
Columbus North East Area Plan
This HIA, a collaboration between the Healthy Places program at Columbus Public Health and the Department of Development’s Planning Division, looked at si...
Lawrence Green Streets Program
In 2016, a group of Massachusetts planners, public health professionals, and members of the American Planning Association partnered with Groundwork Lawrence on ...
Phoenix Light Rail Transit Extension
This health impact assessment examined the transit extension connecting South Phoenix, a disadvantaged neighborhood, to the existing light-rail line of the city...
Pregnant Workers in Kentucky
The Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness conducted an HIA to analyze the potential health effects of the Kentucky Pregnant Workers’ A...
Trinity Plaza Housing Redevelopment
This HIA addressed a proposal to demolish an older apartment building with over 360 rent-controlled units, and replace them with 1,400 market-rate condominiums....
Indy Parks Comprehensive Plan
The Indiana University School of Public Health, in partnership with the Marion County Public Health Department and the Indianapolis Parks and Recreation Departm...
Industrial Sand Mining in Western Wisconsin
The Institute for Wisconsin’s Health Inc. conducted an HIA to inform county, municipal, township, and tribal policy decisions related to existing and potentia...
George Road Complete Streets Implementation Plan
The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County and the Hillsborough Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) conducted a health impact assessment of th...
Healthy Neighborhoods for a Healthy Detroit
Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center conducted a health impact assessment to inform the Detroit Future City’s Strategic Framework, a plan to g...
Fort McPherson Interim Zoning
This is a summary of a health impact assessment that examined how zoning provisions during the redevelopment of Fort McPherson’s Base Realignment and Clos...
Atlanta Regional Plan 2040
This is a health impact assessment that analyzes how Plan 2040, a comprehensive growth and transportation plan for counties in the Atlanta region, will address ...
Oasis on Ballou Mixed-Use Development
This is a summary of a health impact assessment that analyzed the impacts of a proposed multi use land development in a residential neighborhood in Boston.
City of Decatur Community Transportation Plan
This is a health impact assessment that examines the potential health effects of Decatur, Georgia’s community transportation plan, with a focus on safety,...
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...
Benton Accessory Dwelling Units
This is an executive summary of a health impact assessment that assessed various policy options to modify a code for Accessory Dwelling Units in Benton County, ...
Project HEAL (Health.Equity.Art.Learning)
This is a health impact assessment that explores the potential impact of implementing Project HEAL, a community development model that utilizes arts and culture...
Georgia Qualified Allocation Plan for Low-Income Housing Tax Credits
This is a health impact assessment that aims to inform the 2015 Georgia Qualified Allocation Plan for low-income housing tax credits by analyzing how the propos...
Loch Haven Park Improvement Plan
This is a health impact assessment that examines the potential health effects of the improvement plan for Loch Haven Park, a 45-acre park in Orlando, Florida, w...
Division Street Gateway
This is a health impact assessment conducted on a redevelopment plan for Division Street, which is located along the I-90 freeway in downtown Spokane, Washingto...
King Street Station Multimodal Hub
This is a rapid health impact assessment used to identify potential health concerns and action items of a multiyear effort to improve infrastructure around King...
The Long Road Home: Decreasing Barriers to Public Housing for People With Criminal Records
This health impact assessment assessed the health and equity impacts of public housing admissions policies that exclude people with a criminal history, using th...
Quequechan River Rail Trail Phase 2
This is a health impact assessment that evaluates the proposed Phase 2 of the Quequechan River Rail Trail project in Fall River, Massachusetts.