Healthy cities: assessing health impacts of policies and plans

Lectures: 2 lectures / week, 1.5 hours / lecture

There are no prerequisites for this course, but permission of the instructor is required.

This course examines the built, psychosocial, economic, and natural environment factors that affect health behaviors and outcomes. It introduces tools designed to integrate public health considerations into policymaking and planning. It provides extensive hands-on training in the application of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) methodology, which brings a health lens to policy, budgeting, and planning debates, and emphasizes health equity and healthy cities. The class is designed to prepare graduate students from planning and policy fields to interface with public health organizations, agencies, or advocacy groups in professional contexts. It is also intended to accommodate advanced undergraduates, particularly pre-health undergraduates interested in behavioral and sociocultural determinants of health.

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