Health in All Policies (HiAP)

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Course Details

Course Name: Health in All Policies (HiAP)
Course Code: EP0706WA25
Date of Most Recent Offering: February 21, 2025 Canceled

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Course Overview

Health in All Policies (HiAP) is a strategy that strengthens the link between health and other policies, creating a supportive environment that enables people to lead healthy lives. HiAP considers the intentional or unintentional impact of non-health policies in areas such as education, housing, transportation, economic development, and others on individual and/or population health. HiAP approaches are central to the concept of achieving a “culture of health” that leads to more healthy and equitable outcomes.

In this session, the Planning Healthy Communities Initiative (PHCI) will lead an introductory training on Health in All Policies, focusing on how to bring community health and equity into planning processes and decision-making, emerging tools to build capacity for health advancement in planning, and how to support health in all policies. In addition to presentations, participants will engage in group exercises, discuss opportunities and challenges to integrating health into planning and policy processes, and learn about new statewide collaborative initiatives.

Learning Objectives

• Define HiAP and recognize why and when to use the HiAP approach.
• Understand the broader context of health influences, social determinants of health, and health equity.
• Learn how to identify and use data to measure progress in health objectives.
• Understand how to effectively engage stakeholders in collaborative and inter-sectoral efforts to promote health.
• Explore opportunities to incorporate Health in All Policies into government decision-making processes.
• Gain familiarity with Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and other emerging tools that can provide evidence-based recommendations aimed at enhancing positive health impacts and minimizing negative ones.
• Review the resources available to local government decision-makers and citizens that wish to include health consideration in community planning.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone looking to learn new strategies for bringing community health and equity into planning processes and decision-making can benefit from attending this course, including:

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Leigh Ann Von Hagen, AICP/PP

Leigh Ann Von Hagen, AICP, PP, is the Executive Director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) at Rutgers University. A licensed professional planner with over 20 years of experience, she specializes in creating inclusive, healthy, and active communities through research, design, education, and training. Leigh Ann is a leader in integrating health into transportation and land use planning. She has spearheaded statewide initiatives and provided training on topics such as Safe Routes to School, Sustainable Jersey, Complete and Green Streets, Health Impact Assessments, Health in All Policies, and funding.

Additional Instructors

Anita Franzione, Ph.D.

Anita Franzione has been in the field of health care for over 30 years working in all sectors of health care from ambulatory care settings to acute care hospitals, nonprofit agencies, long term care organizations, for-profit insurance companies, and quality improvement organizations and in different specialties, including mental health and HIV/ADIS services. She has a DrPH in public health policy and management from Columbia University, a MPA in health administration from New York University and a BA in biology from New York University. She has broad experience in public health, research, and policy.

Marci Berger, Ph.D

Dr. Berger is an Instructor at the Bloustein School at Rutgers University. Her professional interests include health policy, public policy and reproductive health. She has taught classes on broad array of topics including Poverty in the U.S., Family, Gender and Public Policy, Women and Health, Principles of Public Health, Health Policy, Principles of Public Policy and Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy. Dr. Berger holds a PhD, MPH and an MA from Rutgers University as well as a BA from Cornell University.

Pritpal Bamhrah, AICP

Pritpal Bamhrah is a Planning professional with experience in coastal vulnerability analysis, mitigation and resiliency projects. With expertise in GIS and keen interest in graphic design, she works on developing decision support tools for policymakers, planners, communities, and students. As a Senior Research Specialist at NJ Climate Change Resource Center Pritpal leads Climate Corps projects to support municipalities to undertake climate related vulnerability assessments. In the past she has worked as a Planner and GIS Specialist with AECOM’s Water Resources group where she worked on various coastal risk reduction and management studies for the US Army Corps of Engineers.

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