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IOM Centre for Health Impact Assessment

See also Health Impact Assessmentand Health Risk Assessment

CHIA Background

The IOM Centre for Health Impact Assessment (IOM CHIA) was set up in September 2007 to:

  • further develop the public and environmental health work of the Institute
  • to bring together the various health impact assessment research, consulting and teaching that was taking place between Edinburgh and London
  • to become an internationally recognised Centre of Excellence in Health Impact Assessment

The Centre’s staff have expertise in assessing health impacts both qualitatively and quantitatively and come from a range of scientific backgrounds from geography and environmental management to medicine, epidemiology and public health.

We work with a range of public, private and third sector organisations in the UK and internationally.

CHIA Objectives

The objectives of the Centre are to be a Centre of Excellence in:

  • HIA method development and application
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis of health impacts
  • Evaluating the health impacts of existing policies and projects
  • Understanding the wider determinants of health and wellbeing
  • Tackling environmental and health inequalities and inequities
  • Healthy urban planning, design and development
  • Urban and rural regeneration and health
  • Teaching and training of HIA and healthy public policy

CHIA Team

Staff of the centre are based in London and Edinburgh (IOM HQ) and include:

  • Salim Vohra, CHIA Director, London
  • Alison Searl, Director of Analytical Services, Edinburgh
  • Fintan Hurley, Scientific Director, Edinburgh
  • Gifty Amo-Danso, Research Assistant, London
  • Emma Doust, Research Assistant, Edinburgh
  • Hilary Cowie, Head of Statistics, Edinburgh
  • Brian Miller, Principal Epidemiologist. Edinburgh