Rapid Health Impact Assessment Helps Communities Make Healthy Decisions

Sep 12, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

A health impact assessment (HIA) is an approach to identify how a proposed policy or project might impact a community and the health of its citizens. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted a rapid HIA to assist Dover, DE in making a decision about turning a former EPA brownfield site into an aquaponics food production site.

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Michelle Shapiro was formerly a communication specialist for the Environmental Health & Disability team at NACCHO.

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