Health Impact Assessments are used to evaluate the potential health effects of a project or policy before it is built or implemented, in order to increase positive health outcomes and minimize adverse health outcomes. HIA is a particularly valuable tool in advancing health reform work and at the same time, health reform provides a key opportunity to advance HIA and primary prevention. In his testimony this week to the Institute of Medicine's National Research Council Committee on Health Impact Assessment, Larry Cohen outlines the links between prevention and health reform; how prevention and HIAs intersect; and how a Collaboration Multiplier be used to complement an HIA to improve intersectoral primary prevention.

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