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Health Impact Assessment and Evidence-based Practice (2017-2020)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Health Assessments are a way to evaluate past planning outcomes or new planning and\u00a0design proposals. Projects starting in 2018 will build on work done by the Health and Place Initiative<\/a> (see link to new tools<\/a>) to conduct health (impact) assessments of buildings and neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017 students in the Healthy Places class conducted a health impact assessment of the Wellspring Harvard greenhouse and cooperative business in Springfield, Massachusetts<\/a>. In 2018 students conducted a health lens analysis of development in Boston’s Chinatown, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. In 2020 they looked at transportation infrastructure changes in Allston in Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications<\/strong><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2020     A. Forsyth. What is a Healthy Place? Models for Cities and Neighborhoods. Journal of Urban <\/em>Design<\/em> 25, 2: 186-202.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020     H.Y. Kan, A. Forsyth, and J. Molinsky. Measuring the Built Environment for Aging in Place: A Review of Neighborhood Audit Tools. Journal of Planning Literature <\/em>35, 2: 180-194.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019       A. Forsyth. Linking Research and Practice in Planning (editorial). Journal of the American Planning Association <\/em>85, 2. Reprinted in revised form as Linking Research and Planning Practice, Planning<\/em>, April 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018    A. Forsyth. Evidence-based Practice: Challenges in a Changing World. In T. Beatley, C. Jones, and R. Rainey eds., Healthy Environments, Healing Spaces: Current Practices and Future Directions in Health, City Planning, and Design<\/em>. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n