The Role of Community Health Impact Assessments (CHIA) in Retrofit
This workbook has been developed through a collaboration between the National Retrofit Hub and Centric Lab, supported by Impact on Urban Health, as part of the Measuring Outcomes and Impact Evaluation project.
The work explored how broader outcome measurement could accelerate retrofit delivery and support better policy, funding, and delivery decisions, particularly in a fiscally constrained environment.
A key finding was the importance of place-based data that reflects lived experience and provides a nuanced understanding of local needs, opportunities, and challenges. This workbook aims to offer one way to generate such data.
It also draws on extensive research developed by Centric Lab, which approaches health ecologically, recognising how place, systems, and lived experience interact to shape wellbeing over time. That research underpins the approach taken throughout.
