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







