VTPEH 6143

Health Impact Assessment

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Public health and community leaders seek to identify policy or program alternatives that will help to better address a need or gap, as a step towards building health equity and justice. More and more, the role of--and human interactions with--built and natural environments are considered when seeking innovations to improve human and ecosystem health. Health impact assessments can be a useful tool, a means of assessing the health impacts of policies, plans and projects in diverse economic sectors using quantitative, qualitative and participatory techniques {World Health Organization). The course wilt introduces students to the 4+2 steps that are used to consider and conduct a health impact assessment and will work to consider fit and feasibility of this approach, develop organizational capacity to implement the approach, and practice implementation with a real world/real-world-like project.

Prerequisites REF-FA25/Corequisites REF-FA25 VTPEH 6141 and VTPEH 6142 . Corequisites: None.

Enrollment Priority REF-FA25 Enrollment limited to: graduate and professional students.

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