Proposals for Health Impact Assessments

Posted by on February 24, 2014

Health Impact Project Accepting Proposals for Health Impact Assessments
DEADLINE: APRIL 2, 2014

The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, promotes the use of health impact assessments and related approaches to help policy makers incorporate health considerations into new policies, programs, plans, and projects and make decisions that reduce unnecessary health risks, improve health, and lower costs.

The program supports HIA demonstration projects that inform a specific decision, with a focus on tribes, states, and territories that have had limited experience with HIAs to date, as well as programs that enable organizations with previous HIA experience to develop sustainable HIA programs that integrate HIAs and related approaches in policymaking at the local, state, or tribal level.

Preference will be given to HIAs that focus on an innovative topic for which relatively few assessments have been completed (criminal justice, education, fiscal and economic policy, and disaster recovery) or that are proposed by federally recognized U.S. tribes and in states with limited or no HIA activity and no ongoing systematic efforts to build the field (i.e., Alabama, Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, and U.S. territories).

In 2014, the program will award up to six demonstration project grants of up to $100,000 each and up to five program grants of up to $250,000 each. Program grants must include $100,000 in matching funds or in-kind support from the grantee or partner organizations.

Eligible applicant organizations include state, tribal, and local agencies; tax-exempt educational institutions; and tax-exempt organizations as defined by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

The Health Impact Project will host two webinars for potential applicants on March 5 and 6, 2014; registration is required. See the Health Impact Project Web site for registration information as well as complete program guidelines and application instructions.

http://www.healthimpactproject.org/news/project/new-funding-available-to-incorporate-health-in-public-policy-decisions