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Food Security Study Group
Alaska Village Initiatives
Wednesday, July 24th
8am-9am
We will continue our discussion of Health Impact Assessments as a potential tool for understating how public policies can impact food security. We will be joined by Sarah Yoder, Public Health Specialist and Deputy Environmental Public Health Program Manager at the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. She will discuss the department’s Health Impact Assessment program and examples of its use in Alaska and other states.
Click here to see the department’s webpage on HIAs and links to resources such as their HIA Tool Kit.