As part of the Healthy Energy Initiative, Health Care Without Harm - Asia hosted a workshop on conducting Health Impact Assessments (HIA) for energy policies and projects.

“The HIA process seeks to predict the nature and magnitude of a policy, plan, or project’s downstream impacts on health,” said Dr. Linda Rudolph, one of the workshop speakers who currently serves as director of the Center for Climate Change and Public Health at the Public Health Institute in California. “Ultimately, HIA is one tool that can be helpful in influencing the outcome of the decision-making process”, she added.

“Energy policies and projects have huge implications for human health”, stated Jennifer Wang, global coordinator of the Healthy Energy Initiative, “and therefore HIA offers an opportunity for these health dimensions to be highlighted for consideration in decision-making.”

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