Online Program

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Using a Health in All Policies approach to integrate health and equity into land use, transportation, and planning grant programs


Monday, November 2, 2015 : 3:10 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Meredith Lee, MPH, Office of Health Equity, California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA
Lianne Dillon, MPH, Public Health Institute/California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA
Julia Caplan, MPP, MPH, Public Health Institute, California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA

Karen Ben-Moshe, MPP, MPH, Public Health Institute, California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA
Kelsey Lyles, BA, Public Health Institute/California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA
California is the first state in the nation to establish a formal high-level body focused on improving government processes through a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach. Now in its sixth year, the California HiAP Task Force has made important strides in integrating health and equity into State funded grant programs, projects, and strategies.

States provide grant funding to local jurisdictions for land use, transportation, and planning purposes. These grant programs impact health by shaping the built environments where people live, work, learn, and play. In California, as a result of the HiAP Task Force’s collaborative work building understanding for why health and equity considerations are integral to achieve progress on other state priorities related to green-house gas reduction, revitalizing community and urban centers, and more, there is strong interest in embedding explicit considerations of health into “non-health” programs and grants. With little precedent to guide these processes, the California HiAP Task Force is serving as a learning laboratory for how to integrate health and equity into land use, transportation, and planning grant programs. The presenter will 1) describe the approaches and tools used developing grant criteria, including health and equity needs assessments, health metrics, and requirements for partnership with local health departments, 2) share incites on the key concerns and needs voiced by “non-health” agency partners and stakeholders in this process, and 3) provide lessons learned by the California HiAP Task Force relative to establishing quantitative and qualitative measures of impact.

Learning Areas:

Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines

Learning Objectives:
Discuss quantitative and qualitative measures of impact for analyzing how land use, transportation, and planning grants impact health. Describe three approaches for embedding explicit health considerations into other sector’s grant programs List three resources that can be used to promote health and equity in land use, transportation, and planning grant guidelines and applications.

Keyword(s): Health Disparities/Inequities, Policy/Policy Development

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Meredith Lee, MPH, is the Health Program Specialist for the Health in All Polices Task Force at the California Department of Public Health in the Office of Health Equity. Meredith coordinates collaborative multi-agency efforts to increase active transportation, promote healthy land use and planning, and incorporate health and health equity into state policy guidance documents and grant programs.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.