HIA in the News: “Top Doc Lauds GarCo Officials for Offer to Fund Health Study”
December 23, 2009
The Colorado Independent, By David O. Williams
"The top doc for a nonprofit group pushing health impact studies as part of the public decision-making process on major development projects recently had high praise for the Garfield County commissioners, who decided they may be able to fund such a study in the community of Battlement Mesa.
According to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Dr. Aaron Wernham of the Health Impact Project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, said ‘We think this is the sort of work that counties should be doing...'"
