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Dr Salim Vohra

Senior Lecturer in BSc (Hons) Public Health

I founded the public health consultancy Public Health by Design with which I am still linked. I was Director of the Centre for Health Impact Assessment at the Institute of Occupational Medicine between 2007 and 2013.

I am an expert in the applied science of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and am an internationally recognised HIA consultant, researcher and teacher.

As a HIA expert, I am interested in how environmental and social factors in the broadest sense affect individual and population health and wellbeing; how health impacts and risks are perceived in society; and how we can come together to balance the health and wellbeing positives and negatives in global, societal and local community policy and decision-making so that they lead to better environmental, social and health outcomes.

I have broad experience of public health and also have expertise in health in other impact assessments (e.g. EIA, SEA, ESHIA); integrated impact assessment; healthy public policy; health in all policies; healthy urban planning; community consultation and stakeholder engagement.

I am currently Conjoint Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Honorary Fellow at Staffordshire University and an Editorial Board Member of the scientific journal Environmental Impact Assessment Review.