November 2022 Volume 7 Issue 1

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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SOPHIA has started an academic interest group to support SOPHIA members who are teaching 
HIA or HiAP courses, or are participating as guest lectures in other courses. A few of the member of 
the academic  interest group have shared their experiences in this edition of CHIA. We also have an 
article submitted from a student of a recent HIA course that presents their findings.

Tatiana Lin has created a HIA Health tool and shared that with two universities in Kansas. Keisha 
Pollack Porter shares how she recruited and managed a very large online HIA course at Johns 
Hopkins University. Lindsey Realmuto discusses her first HIA course experience at the University of 
Illinois-Chicago. 

If you would be interested in joining the SOPHIA Academic interest group please contact me at 
cylstone@iu.edu

Thank you, 

Cynthia Stone DrPH, RN 
Professor, Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health 
Editor, Chronicles of Health Impact Assessment Journal