SOPHIA Membership Benefits

Membership to SOPHIA provides full access to the members only area.

If you would like to become a member of SOPHIA, please join here or learn more about our membership below.

Questions? Please e-mail members@hiasociety.org

Member Services

SOPHIA member services available exclusively to members include:

• Twice-yearly SOPHIA Newsletter
• Member-only events such as informative webinars, social hours, and working meetings
• Access to SOPHIA member directory, an online list of HIA/HiAP practitioners worldwide
• Access to free mentorship opportunities from other SOPHIA members
  
• Opportunities to advertise (conferences, jobs, HIAs, etc.) in the SOPHIA newsletter and via emails
  

Networking

SOPHIA helps practitioners from around the world connect through:

• An active LinkedIn group
  
• An HIA/HiAP newsletter with information about new resources, regional news, conferences and job opportunities.
• Social events at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and other conferences
  

HIA Meetings

SOPHIA members are eligible for discounts and scholarship opportunities at the SOPHIA Practitioner Workshop

• Discount to Practitioner Workshop meeting registration
• Opportunity to apply for travel scholarships to Practitioner Workshop (as available)

Chronicles of Health Impact Assessment (CHIA)

CHIA is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online HIA journal published through a partnership between SOPHIA and Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. While CHIA is openly accessible online, SOPHIA members will also receive additional benefits, such as:

• Opportunity to apply for CHIA editorial board and reviewer positions
  
• Discounted publication fee

Leadership

SOPHIA’s dedicated volunteers have been providing leadership in growing and shaping HIA and HiAP practice worldwide since 2011. SOPHIA Working Groups have produced important HIA and HiAP guidance documents, and addressed emerging issues in the field. SOPHIA’s Steering Committee provides oversight for the organization’s strategic directions and activities. SOPHIA provides members the opportunity to become leaders through:

• Contributing to guidance documents and leading discussions on emerging issues (SOPHIA Working Groups)
• Volunteering to help grow SOPHIA as an organization (SOPHIA committees)
  
• Receiving support from SOPHIA to grow regional and/or local initiatives
  

In addition to the membership-only benefits listed above, many of SOPHIA’s services are openly accessible to all. These include:

• An online collection of model HIA reports
• SOPHIA Working Group products, such as the Minimum Elements and Practice Standards and Equity Metrics
• Chronicles of Health Impact Assessment