Dr Salim Vohra

Senior Lecturer in Public Health

College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare

salim.vohra@uwl.ac.uk

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.

Qualifications

MBChB (University of Leicester), MSc (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London), PhD (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London)
Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health
Associate Member of the Faculty of Public Health
Member of the International Association for Impact Assessment
Member of the Transport and Health Study Group
Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment
Member of the Town and Country Planning Association
Member of the Society for Health Impact Assessment

Teaching

I am an internationally recognised expert in the applied science of Health Impact Assessment (HIA). I am interested in how environmental and social factors affect individual and population health and wellbeing. I am a 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.

Research

See Dr Salim Vohra's publications list in the UWL Repository.

Research and publications

Articles and chapters in edited books
Silva F, Divall M, Viliani F and Vohra S; 2015; Health Impact Assessment: communities and extractives in Africa; (in) Community Health Partnerships 2015. Commonwealth Secretariat.
Vohra S, Amo-Danso G and Ball J; 2013; HIA and its role in shaping government policy making: the use of HIA at national policy level in England; (in) Integrating health impact assessment into the policy process; (edited by) O’Mullane M; Oxford University Press; Oxford; pp.100-110.
Hurley F and Vohra S; 2010; Health impact assessment; (in) Textbook of environmental medicine; (edited by) Ayers J et al. CRC Press; Boca Raton; pp.666-679.
Refereed articles in academic journals
Vohra, S; 2007; International perspective on HIA in international settings; New South Wales Public Health Bulletin.
Non-refereed articles
Vohra S, Cave B, Viliani F, Harris Roxas BF and Bhatia R; 2010; New international consensus on health impact assessment (correspondence); The Lancet; Vol 376, October 30; p.1464.
Vohra S; 2006; Consultation: Health impact assessments are the developer’s new secret weapon. Here’s how they work and why you need one; Regenerate; May 2006 ; p.49.
Vohra, S; 2006; Waste vs. the community, Environment Business; February 2006; p.39.
Quigley R, Cave B, Elliston K, Pratt A, Vohra S and Taylor L; 2005; Practical lessons for dealing with inequalities in health impact assessment; NHS National Institute of Clinical Excellence
Conferences

2015; Health in EIA and SEA: Experience from England; International Association for Impact Assessment; Florence, Italy.
2014; Introduction to and international trends in health impact assessment; European Public Health Association; Glasgow, Scotland.
2012; HIA’s role in mainstreaming health in Health in All Policies; 12th International Health Impact Assessment Conference; Quebec, Canada.
2012; Child mental health and wellbeing and the physical environment; 12th International Conference on Health Impact Assessment Conference; Quebec, Canada.
2012; Education, training and materials for building capacity in national and international settings; 12th International Health Impact Assessment Conference; Quebec, Canada.
2012; Health and wellbeing in environmental assessment; International Association for Impact Assessment; Porto, Portugal.
2011; Use of health impact assessment at national policy level in England; 11th International Conference on Health Impact Assessment; Grenada, Spain.
2011; How to analyse housing and regeneration designs from a health impact assessment perspective; 11th International Health Impact Assessment Conference ; Grenada, Spain.
2010; Regenerating Middleport: using health impact assessment to ‘health proof’ masterplans for deprived communities; Health, Well Being and Healthy Lifestyle Conference; Staffordshire University; Stoke-on-Trent, England.
2010; Regenerating Stoke-on-Trent: using health impact assessment to ‘health proof’ masterplans for deprived communities; 18th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum; Bournemouth, England.
2010; Stoke-on-Trent’s ‘Streetcar’ Bus Rapid Transport Scheme Health Impact Assessment (poster); 18th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum; Bournemouth, England.
2009; Embedding HIA into the wider public policy process in Luton and North Staffordshire; 10th International Conference on Health Impact Assessment; Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2009; Embedding HIA into the wider public policy process in Luton and North Staffordshire; 10th International Conference on Health Impact Assessment; Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2009; EDPHiS, Environmental Determinants of Public Health in Scotland: Diving into DPSEEA; 17th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum; Brighton, England.
2008; HIA networks: Networks and information exchange among HIA people; Conference to Celebrate Reopening of the HIA Gateway; Birmingham, England.
2008; Quantifying the health impacts of stack emissions from energy from waste facilities; 9th International Conference on Health Impact Assessment; Liverpool, England.
Vohra S and Green L; 2008; Health impact assessment of waste plans: analysing strategic waste management options; 16th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum; Liverpool, England.
2008; Involving communities in Home Zones; 16th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum; Liverpool, England.
2008; Environment and health: overview of current research challenges; Environmental Research Conference; Dublin, Ireland.
2007; Engaging the Community in HIA: the highs and lows of making it fit for purpose; 8th International Conference on Health Impact Assessment; Liverpool, England.
2007; Regeneration, health and HIA (poster); 8th International Conference on Health Impact Assessment; Liverpool, England.
2007; Does the built environment affect travel choice and physical activity?; 15th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum; Edinburgh, Scotland.
2007; Public participation and health risk communication in the age of the Risk Society (poster); 15th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum; Edinburgh, Scotland.
2007; Public Health 2.0: increasing community involvement through wiki websites and blogs (poster); 15th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum; Edinburgh, Scotland.
2007; International context: planning and building healthy communities; CIWEM HIA Conference; Birmingham, England.
2007; Communities and health: how communities respond to environmental health risks and why they do so in the way they do; CIWEM HIA Conference; Birmingham, England.
2006; Strengthening Health in EIA a report of and workshop on the findings of the European Commission’s IMP3 project on the health aspects of EIA in the UK and Europe; 14th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum; Trafford, England.
2006; Taking the public with us: waste and health impact assessment; CIWEM 2006 Conference; Torbay, England.
2006; Post-normal science, local lay knowledge and plural rationalities; International Association for Impact Assessment; Stavanger, Norway.
2006; Health aspects of environmental impact assessment; 7th International Conference on Health Impact Assessment; Cardiff, Wales.
2005; Understanding Community concerns during the siting of waste disposal facilities in their neighbourhoods; CIWEM 2005 Conference; England.
2003; Health inequalities, power inequalities and health impact assessment; Health Development Agency; London, England.
2002; Understanding public and other stakeholder perceptions of risk; Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Conference; Berlin, Germany.
Research degree supervision

Second Supervisor
The impact of obesity on health and social care needs among older adults (50+) in England. (Gargi Ghosh)