Health in All Policies
Project Funder: This effort is supported through cooperative agreements with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Environmental Health (CDC-RFA-OT18-1802: Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation’s Health).
Project Partners: the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO), and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO).
Project Contact: Laura Fudala, lfudala@nchh.org, 443.539.4167
Project Description: In late 2018/early 2019, a competitive solicitation process was conducted to award up to three entities a grant of $20,000 each, as well as technical assistance from the national partners identified above. The purpose of these grants was to advance local efforts to reduce lead exposure and its effects and build capacity to use a Health in All Policies approach for future efforts.
The chosen grantees submitted projects that build and support cross-sector relationships, integrate data systems, and incorporate health into a variety of existing decision-making processes. Additional detail on the selected grantees – Allegheny County Health Department (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Houston Health Department, Bureau of Community and Children’s Environmental Health (Houston, Texas), Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness (Louisville, Kentucky) – is available on the funding opportunity page, including their specific projects and original solicitation.
Originally scheduled to end in July 2019, a continuation of the cooperative agreements supporting this HiAP+Pb collaborative allowed for not only a second year of grant funding and an extension of the technical assistance period through July 2020 for the original three grantees noted above but also for the introduction of additional grantees into the collaborative community.
Resources
The section below contains a selection of new and existing HiAP-related resources and developed tools that translate shared technical assistance experiences into accessible, informal examples.
Selected Project and Grantee Resources
- Environmental Health Fact Sheet: Health Department Strategies for Implementing Health in All Policies to Reduce and Prevent Lead Exposure [pdf; NCHH, 2019]
- Stories from the Field: 2019 Health in All Policies (Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention) Mini-Grantee Case Studies [pdf; NCHH, 2019]
- Stories from the Field: 2019 Health in All Policies (Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention) Mini-Grantee: Allegheny County Health Department and Women for a Healthy Environment
- Stories from the Field: 2019 Health in All Policies (Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention) Mini-Grantee: Houston Health Department Bureau of Community and Children’s Environmental Health
- Stories from the Field: 2019 Health in All Policies (Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention) Mini-Grantee: Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness
- Lessons Learned: HiAP + Pb Collaborative [pdf; NCHH, 2019]
- Health Department Strategies for Implementing Health in All Policies (HiAP) to Reduce and Prevent Lead Exposure [mkv; 2020] [COMING SOON]
- EarthTime Story: Lead in Pittsburgh Housing
Lead in Pittsburgh Housing visualizes Allegheny County’s lead story to show the legacy issues of lead, industry, housing, and other factors that create environmental justice communities specific to lead poisoning. [url; CMU Create Lab, 2020] - Healthy Home, Healthy Community
The Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness and their partners at IDEAS xLab and Bates Community Development Corporation launched the Healthy Home, Healthy Community campaign to increase awareness of childhood lead poisoning prevention. The program worked in partnership with community to develop messaging and spark conversation about lead poisoning, healthy housing, and COVID-19. The campaign consists of billboards and digital ads displayed in Smoketown and West Louisville that feature families from those areas and highlight some of the most impacted community members’ voices. - Health in All Policies Approach to Lead Poisoning Prevention at the Houston Health Department
Hosted by NEHA and NCHH, this webinar features Komal Sheth, MPH, of the Houston Health Department discussing the city’s work on reducing childhood lead poisoning and asthma trigger abatement through the use of a “health in all policies” approach. [mkv; 2019] - 2020 Grantee Impact Stories [COMING SOON]
- 2019 Health in All Policies (Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention) Mini-Grantee: Allegheny County Health Department and Women for a Health Environment
- 2019 Health in All Policies (Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention) Mini-Grantee: Houston Health Department Bureau of Community and Children’s Environmental Health
- 2019 Health in All Policies (Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention) Mini-Grantee: Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness
General HiAP Information and Resources
- National Association of County and City Health Officials: Health in All Policies [url; NACCHO]
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials: Health in All Policies [url; ASTHO]
- National Environmental Health Association: Health in All Policies [url; NEHA]
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health in All Policies [url; CDC]
- Center for Health Care Strategies: Incorporating Health into Policymaking across Sectors: The California Health in All Policies Initiative [pdf; CHCS/RWJF, 2018]
- California Strategic Growth Council: Health in All Policies: Advancing Health, Equity, and Sustainability across State Government [url; CSGC]
- The California Endowment, American Public Health Association, California Department of Public Health, and the Public Health Institute: Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments [pdf; TCE/APHA/CDPH/PHI, 2013]
- ChangeLab Solutions: Health in All Policies [url; ChangeLab Solutions]
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Health in All Policies Evaluation Guidance for Local Health Departments
To support the development of evaluations, NACCHO, in partnership with the Florida Department of Health at Pinellas County, and the Multnomah County Health Department, OR, developed a HiAP Evaluation Guidance Tool for LHDs using the seven implementation strategies and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials’ four implementation phases as a framework. The purpose of this tool is to support health departments evaluating HiAP initiatives and to begin to build the evidence based for HiAP practice. [pdf; NACCHO, 2021]
Project Media Announcements
- Local Health Department Grantees Will Bring “Health in All Policies” Approach to Lead Poisoning Prevention [url; NCHH]
Funding Opportunity Resources
- Grantees Announcement [url; NCHH]
- Grant Eligibility Requirements [url; NCHH]