Lecturer

Damon Barrett

Slides

SLIDES

Preparation

Please read the following course literature (read MacNaughton in advance. The Danish Institute Toolbox is more to be used as a resource while you're working on your assignment)

MacNaughton, Gillian (2015), ‘Human rights impact assessment: A method for healthy policymaking’, Health and Human Rights, 17(1) https://www.hhrjournal.org/2015/04/human-rights-impact-assessment-a-method-for-healthy-policymaking/

Danish Institute for Human Rights, Human Rights Impact Assessment Toolbox https://humanrights.dk/tools/human-rights-impact-assessment-guidance-toolbox

This session provides an Introduction to health and human rights impact assessment as a policy process, and an introduction to the group work.

Please prepare by thinking about a. What was the most interesting thing from the reading for you, and why? b. What was least clear that you would like clarified?

After a lecture we will break into groups to begin looking at the assignment for this Block.

Download group discussion instructions

Our approach is based on the Danish Institute for Human Rights HRIA toolbox (this has been primarily developed for business activities, but the phases of any impact assessment are about the same - the difference is what impacts we choose to assess).

Below are links to specific guidance for each 'phase'. These guides are 15-20 pages each, but the core information you need amounts to about 10 pages towards the start of each. Use them as reference guides as you move through this block of the course and into your assignment. You can also watch these very short videos from DIHR along the way

DIHR framework

This one is quite long, so focus on Figure 3, Box B.1 and section B.2.1 We'll have a dedicated workshop on stakeholders as it's a really important part of policy analysis and policy-making.

Additional reading (focus here is health impact assessment. You can see the main elements are similar to HRIA)

Wright J. et al (2005) Participation in health impact assessment: objectives, methods and core values, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 83(1) pp.58-63

Mindell, Jenny and Joffe, Michael (2003) ‘Health impact assessment in relation to other forms of impact assessment’, Journal of Public Health Medicine, 25(2):107-12

Joffe, Michael and Mindell, Jenny (2005) ‘Health impact assessment’ BMJ Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 62 pp. 907–912

Winkler, Mirko et al (2020) Health impact assessment for promoting sustainable development: the HIA4SD project, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 38(3) pp.225-232 (This article shows a health impact assessment fitting into a wider project)