Program

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in Wales: Policy and Legislation

Professor Liz Green, Public Health Wales Consultant in Public Health, Policy and International Health, Programme Director for Health Impact Assessment

Professor Liz Green is a global expert in Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and leads the Wales Health Impact Assessment Support Unit, UK which is also linked to the WHO Collaborating Centre on ‘Investment in Health and Wellbeing’, Public Health Wales. She has directed and led groundbreaking HIAs on Brexit, pandemic restrictions, trade and Climate Change in Wales. She will talk about the Wales' progress in advancing HIA and the levers which have been beneficial such as the unique Wellbeing of Future Generations Act, exploring how HIA has been embedded within policy and planning processes to drive health equity and cross-sector collaboration. She will discuss the capacities needed to successfully implement "Health in All Policies" approaches and integrate health and wellbeing considerations across sectors and how wider determinant focussed HIA will become statutory in 2027.

Multi-level capacity framework for Health Impact Assessment (HIA)

Fiona Haigh, UNSW International Centre for Future Health Systems

Jinhee Kim, UNSW Cities Institute

This presentation introduces a HIA capacity framework developed through international review of existing frameworks and competency literature. The framework identifies capacity building requirements across three organisational levels: micro (individual/team understanding and implementation), meso (organisational commitment and resources), and macro (cross-agency capacity and influence).