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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Climate Change in Alaska
This Health Impact Assessment examines the potential adverse health effects of climate change in Alaska by offering a comprehensive overview, presenting up-to-d...
RMG/ Southside Recycling Permit Application
This Health Impact Assessment assesses the health equity impacts of the RMG/Southside Recycling proposal. – The creation of this HIA Report was supported ...
Philadelphia’s Tree Canopy Cover Goals
This health impact assessment estimates the annual premature mortality burden for adult residents associated with projected changes in tree canopy cover in Phil...
Kingsbury Bay-Grassy Point Habitat Restoration
This health impact assessment examined the potential public health implications of the Great Lakes Area of Concern (AOC) habitat restoration project (i.e., pote...
Uranium Mining in McKinley County
This health impact assessment aims to analyze the health impacts of requesting additional studies for any future McKinley County uranium mining on the following...
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...
The Interbay Project
This health impact assessment explored three redevelopment concepts and their connection to health: Industrial Only, Mixed-Use Commercial and Residential, and M...
Uranium Mining
This health impact assessment aims to analyze the health impacts of requesting additional studies for any future McKinley County uranium mining on the following...
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...
Kingsbury Bay-Grassy Point Habitat Restoration: A Health Impact Assessment
This HIA aimed to evaluate the potential public health implications of the project and provide evidence-based recommendations to the Minnesota Department of Nat...
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...
Oregon Vehicle Miles Traveled Legislation
Upstream Public Health conducted this health impact assessment (HIA) of proposed state legislation designed to reduce car use and ultimately meet greenhouse gas...
Placer County Biomass Energy Facility
This HIA informed decisions regarding a proposed biomass energy facility in Placer County, California. The proposed facility would generate electricity from woo...
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...
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...
Climate Smart Community Scenarios
Transportation produces 25% of the Portland, Oregon Metro region’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, contributing to a warming climate that could severely i...
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...
Cargo Atlanta Citywide Freight Study
The Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development conducted an HIA, funded by a grant from the Health Impact Project, to inform the Cargo Atlanta Citywide ...
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...
Fulton Industrial Boulevard Framework
The Fulton County, Georgia, Department of Health Services conducted a rapid HIA of the Fulton Industrial Boulevard Framework, a redevelopment plan to revitalize...
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...
Overheating Buildings in Coastal Communities: Homes, Health Impacts, and Opportunities for Collaboration in San Francisco
The San Francisco Department of Public Health Program on Health, Equity, and Sustainability, conducted a health impact assessment (HIA) to address increased hea...
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 ...
California Drinking Water Project Funding
The Sequoia Foundation, in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health and the Public Health Institute, conducted an HIA to provide recommenda...
Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site
This HIA will inform the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) selection of a cleanup plan for the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund site in Seattle. EPA wi...
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...
Ethane Cracker in Monaca, Pennsylvania
The Clean Air Council, in partnership with the community, industry professionals, and academics, conducted a health impact assessment of a proposed Royal Dutch ...
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 ...
Elkhorn Lake Improvement Project
The Kentucky River Area Development District (KRADD) and partners from Jenkins, Kentucky, conducted an HIA to describe the health, social, and economic developm...
Advanced Metering Infrastructure
The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) at Boston Medical Center conducted an HIA of a pilot program run by Illinois’ largest electric u...
Alameda County Goods Movement Planning for Health
Through a grant to the San Francisco Study Center, the Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative conducted an HIA to inform development of long-range strategies for m...
Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Dam
This HIA will provide decision makers with a review of potential positive and negative human health impacts related to the proposed Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric...
Red Dog Mine Extension Aqqaluk Project
The Red Dog Mine, in remote northwest Alaska, is the world’s largest producer of zinc. The company proposed an expansion of the mine. In evaluating this r...
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...
Rock County CAFO
The proposal to build the Rock Prairie Dairy in the Town of Bradford, Wisconsin generated concerns regarding the potential negative health implications that may...
Regional Climate Action Plan Strategies in Western Massachusetts
The Pioneer Valley Planning Commission issued the Pioneer Valley Climate Action and Clean Energy Plan in 2013 to identify strategies that local governments and ...
Urban Forest Canopy as a Climate/Health Adaptation
The city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, developed an Urban and Community Forest Management Plan using a street tree inventory that identifies 42,000 street trees and 8...
I-710 Expansion
Human Impact Partners (HIP) conducted an HIA that addressed the expansion and improvements planned for the I-710 freeway in Los Angeles, a vital transportation ...
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...
Texas Water and Sanitation
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (...
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...
Coal and Clean Energy Options in Kentucky
The Kentucky Environmental Foundation conducted an HIA of coal and clean energy options in the state of Kentucky. The HIA provided a health-based screening of t...
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 ...
Poultry Litter-Fired Power Plant
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) conducted an HIA to inform decisions regarding a proposed biomass power plant that would burn poultry litter in Virginia....
Natural Gas Development in Battlement Mesa, Garfield County, Colorado
The Colorado School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Garfield County Public Health Department, is conducting an HIA to assess the potential health im...
St. Paul Emerald Ash Borer Policy
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, or MPCA, conducted an HIA on St. Paul’s efforts to address the threat posed by the emerald ash borer, an invasive ...
Wastewater Infrastructure in Fresno County
The Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability conducted an HIA to inform decisions about wastewater infrastructure in the Fresno County (California) Gen...
Proposed Coal Mine at Wishbone Hill
This HIA provides decision makers with a review of potential positive and negative human health impacts related to the proposed Wishbone Hill Mine (WHM). The pr...
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...
California State Gas Tax Alternatives
The Center for Health Advancement at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health conducted a health impact assessment (HIA) to identify potential health effects o...
Proposed Weymouth Compressor Station
In collaboration with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the Massachusetts Departments of Environmental Protection and Public Health conducted an HIA on a ...
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...
Water Infrastructure and Sanitation on the U.S.-Mexico Border
The University of Texas, El Paso conducted an HIA focused on water infrastructure to help the city of Presidio, Texas, decide whether to extend its water system...
Kern County Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategies
California’s Senate Bill 375 mandates that each regional government in California develop and adopt plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in part thro...
Santa Monica Airport
In response to concerns from residents living in the surrounding community of the Santa Monica Airport (SMO), pediatric residents training at the UCLA Medical C...
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...
South Central Minnesota Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan
In collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Health, the Region Nine Development Commission conducted a rapid HIA on the Region Nine Climate Change Adaptat...
School Biomass Boilers
The Oregon Health Authority, Office of Environmental Public Health conducted an HIA to examine the potential health impacts of using biomass (wood) burning boil...
Hoboken Stormwater Management Plan and Ordinance
In partnership with New Jersey Future and the city of Hoboken, Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy completed an ...
Open Air Burning in La Crosse County, Wisconsin
The La Crosse County Health Department conducted a rapid health impact assessment (HIA) to determine the potential health impacts of creating a uniform open air...
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...
Environmental Decisions in New Mexico
Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund (CVNMEF) conducted an HIA to examine how switching from diesel to electric school buses could affect the health of...
East Bay Bus Rapid Transit
Human Impact Partners and the University of California, Berkeley schools of Public Health and City and Regional Planning, in partnership with TransForm and othe...
Rochester Waterfront Revitalization Plan
This HIA, conducted by the University of Rochester, supplemented the development of the city of Rochester’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (LWRP)...
Climate Smart Strategies
Between 2011 and 2014, the Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division conducted three health impact assessments (HIAs) on elements of Portland Metro’s Cli...
Concord Naval Weapons Station Reuse Project
The HIA addressed potential reuse plans for the Concord Naval Weapons Station, a 5,028-acre former US Navy weapons storage site that is to be redeveloped by the...
Shelter-in-Place Policy
Shelter-in-place policies aim to support residents’ ability to remain in their homes after an earthquake or other major disaster. The San Francisco Depart...
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...
Power Generation Alternatives for the Michoud Natural Gas Plants
The Louisiana Public Health Institute, in partnership with the Alliance for Affordable Energy, conducted an HIA of a proposed natural gas combustion turbine pla...
Saving Energy, Improving Health: Potential Impacts of Energy Efficiency Program Design on Noise and Air Pollution Exposure
California Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, was enacted in 2006. The bill sets the 2020 greenhouse gas emissions goal at 1990 levels and prov...
Still/Lyell Freeway Channel in Excelsior District
This HIA addressed the traffic and transportation system in the Excelsior District of San Francisco. It was undertaken as a collaboration between PODER, a citiz...
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 ...
California Cap and Trade Rulemaking
The California Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the California Public Health Institute, conducted an HIA to inform the development of new carb...
Hermosa Beach Oil Production Project
The city of Hermosa Beach, California, completed an HIA and environmental impact report on an oil production project proposed by E&B Natural Resources. The ...
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...
Cargo Atlanta Citywide Freight Study
This is a health impact assessment that aims to inform and enhance the Cargo Atlanta Citywide Freight Study by examining the potential health consequences of di...
Fulton Industrial Boulevard Framework
This is a rapid health impact assessment that concentrates on the potential health consequences of expanding Fulton Industrial Boulevard and increasing vehicula...
Overheating Buildings in Coastal Communities: Homes, Health Impacts, and Opportunities for Collaboration in San Francisco
This impact assessment addresses the increased heat vulnerability of coastal communities and overheating problems in a high-rise condominium building in San Fra...
California Drinking Water Project Funding
This health impact assessment provides recommendations to the California Water Board on criteria used to fund drinking water projects and standardize health imp...
Community Climate Choices
This is a summary of a health impact assessment that examined how the Climate Smart Communities planning project could impact the health of people living in the...