International HIA Conference - Plenary sessions

Plenary Session 1: Healthy Public Policy and HIA

• Chair: Dr John Devlin, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Children, Ireland
• Mr Owen Metcalfe, Associate Director, Institute of Public Health in Ireland
• Ms Gail Findlay, Co-ordinator, London Health Commission
• Dr Josep Figueras, Director, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Plenary Session 2: Intersectoral Working in HIA

• Chair: Prof John Kemm, Director, West Midlands Public Health Observatory
• Dr Ross Marshall, National Environment Assessment Service (NEAS) Manager for the Environment Agency England and Wales
• Dr Catherine Ross, Director, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Ms Dianne Katscherian, Head of HIA, Department of Health, Western Australia

Plenary Session 3:  Evidence for HIA

• Chair: Dr Jane Wilde CBE, Chief Executive, Institute of Public Health in Ireland
• Mr Fintan Hurley, Scientific Director, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Scotland
• Ms Anthea Cooke, Associate, London Observatory
• Dr Emer O’Connell, EPA Doctoral Fellow, School of Public Health and Population Science, University College Dublin

Plenary Session 4: Embedding HIA: Sustainable approaches

• Chair: Dr Alex Scott-Samuel, Director, IMPACT, University of Liverpool
• Ms Joan Devlin, Director, Belfast Healthy Cities
• Dr Matthias Wismar, Health Policy Analyst, European Observatory on Health Systems  and Policies
• Prof Paul Hunt, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health