[HealthyTribes] CDC Awards Oregon Health Authority Funding for Health Impact Assessment for Improved Community Design

[Gramp Heather]

Dear Partners,



Oregon Public Health Division's Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Program has been awarded three years of funding from the CDC's Healthy Community Design Initiative.



OHA has been working to build local and state health impact assessment capacity since 2008. The HIA Program's long-term goal is to reduce health disparities and to reduce or prevent injuries, illnesses, and deaths by ensuring that health is actively considered in relevant projects, policies, and plans across sectors in Oregon.



Land use and transportation planning work was an optional area for Healthy Communities grantees currently in year three of their work plans, and HIA can be another useful tool when engaging with those partners. HIA work has aligned well with a number of areas of work within the Public Health Division, including brownfields redevelopment, transportation planning, and climate change scenario planning.



The HIA Program will use the CDC funding to continue developing HIA capacity at the local level. Stay tuned for an upcoming call for proposals for rapid HIAs to be performed by Oregon tribal and county health departments.  That announcement will be shared through the healthy tribes and healthy communities list serves. You can also email the HIA Program Coordinator, Andrea Hamburg,  Andrea.HAMBERG at dhsoha.state.or.us<mailto:Andrea.HAMBERG at dhsoha.state.or.us> to request to be put on the HIA list serve.



More information about the CDC funding can be found here: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/HIA_funding.htm


Thanks,

Heather Gramp, MPH
Policy Specialist | Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Section | Center for Prevention & Health Promotion
OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY  |  800 NE Oregon St., Suite 730  |  Portland, Oregon 97232
heather.gramp at state.or.us<mailto:heather.gramp at state.or.us> | 971-673-0630

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