Project-scale Health Impact Assessment credit:

4 Hours

Introduces a Health Impact Assessment (HIA), a public health tool used to consider the potential health impacts of prospective plans, programs, and policies that may not conventionally include health outcomes in the decision-making process. Students will learn the values and principles underpinning HIA, the steps required to complete an HIA and appropriate methods and approaches for each step. While historically employed in policy evaluation, public health, and community planning, HIA is a new tool to consider at the scale of site and building design. Students will develop capacity to employ this tool during pre-design and in the design process for architectural projects. Through this course, students will gain an understanding of the importance of engaging a breadth of project target audiences in the HIA process, as well as the use of HIA as a tool to address health inequities across impacted groups. Students will undertake an HIA project. Prerequisite: Successful completion of ARCH 321 or ARCH 521 . Graduate standing or permission of instructor.