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Project Title: A Framework and Guidance for Health Impact Assessment

PIN: DELS-BEST-09-06         

Major Unit:
Division on Earth and Life Studies
Institute of Medicine

Sub Unit:
Board on Environmental Studies & Toxicology
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

RSO:
Mantus, Ellen

Subject/Focus Area:
Environment and Environmental Studies; Health and Medicine


A Framework and Guidance for Health Impact Assessment (rescheduled from 2/11/2010)
March 8, 2010 - March 9, 2010
Keck Center
500 5th Street, NW
Washington D.C. 20001



If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:


Contact Name: Nola Golson
Email: pgolson@nas.edu
Phone: 202.334.1669
Fax: 202.334.2752


Agenda:

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
COMMITTEE ON HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Public Meeting: March 8, 2010
National Academies Keck Center, Room 201
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

PUBLIC AGENDA


10:30 AM
Purpose of Public Session and Introduction of Committee Members
Richard Jackson
Chair, Committee on Health Impact Assessment
Professor and Chair, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles


10:40 AM
Study Expectations from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Pamela Russo
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation


11:00 AM
Study Expectations from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
John Balbus
Senior Advisor for Public Health, NIEHS


11:20 AM
Study Expectations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Andrew Dannenberg
Team Lead, Healthy Community Design Initiative; Associate Director for Science, Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC


11:40 AM
Open Microphone – Comments from the Audience

12:00 Noon
END PUBLIC SESSION



Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:
Richard Jackson (chair)
Dinah Bear
Rajiv Bhatia
Scott Cantor
Ben Cave (via teleconference)
Carlos Dora
Jonathan Fielding (via teleconference)
Jonathan Levy
Julia Quint
Samina Raja
Catherine Ross
Ana Diez Roux
Amy Jo Schultz (via teleconference)
and Aaron Wernham.

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
1. Standard NRC discussion of policies, procedures, potential bias and conflict of interest.
2. Committee’s statement of task and its approach to its task.
3. Outline for the draft report.
4. Schedule and agendas for future meetings.

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:
1. Russo, P. 2010. National Research Council & Institute of Medicine Committee on Health Impact Assessment. Presentation to the Committee on Health Impact Assessment on March 8, 2010 in Washington, DC.

2. Balbus, J. 2010. A Framework and Guidance for Health Impact Assessment: The NIEHS Perspective. Presentation to the Committee on Health Impact Assessment on March 8, 2010 in Washington, DC.

3. Dannenberg, A. 2010. Use of Health Impact Assessment in the United States: A CDC Perspective. Presentation to the Committee on Health Impact Assessment on March 8, 2010 in Washington, DC.

4. Lhachimi, S.K., W.J. Nusselder, H.C. Boshuizen, and J.P. Mackenbach. 2010. Standard Tool for Quantification in Health Impact Assessment: A Review. Am. J. Prev. Med. 38(1): 78-84.

5. RWJF. 2009. Beyond Health Care: New Directions to a Healthier America. Recommendations from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America. Executive Summary.



Date of posting of Closed Session Summary: March 11, 2010



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