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Workshop on Effective Communications for IHC Grantees and Partners
Communications consultant John Gattuso, Gattuso Media Design, conducted a dynamic workshop on effective communications for your Inclusive Healthy Communities grant program via Zoom on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Topics included creating a communications plan, framing your message, developing content, and establishing an efficient communications practice. ...
Matt Campo works with colleagues to develop webinar series incorporating SLR into urban planning decisions
EAC's Matt Campo worked together with colleagues from Washington State Sea Grant and the American Planning Association's Mazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Division (APA HMDR) to develop a 4-part webinar series on incorporating sea-level rise into urban planning decisions. The Planning Webcast series hosts the webinar recordings and supporting...
EAC Executive Director Jeanne Herb to give keynote at NJ History and Historic Preservation Conference
The EAC Group's Executive Director, Jeanne Herb, will give the keynote address at the 2021 New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference on June 17, 2021. The NJ History and Historic Preservation conference is the annual state-wide educational opportunity for history and historic preservation professionals and volunteers in the fields of...
Jeanne Herb discusses Rutgers Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience Initiative in short video
In this short video, Jeanne Herb, Executive Director of the EAC Group at Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, describes the Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience (C2R2) Initiative, which is an innovate and interdisciplinary certificate program that trains gradate students to better integrate all the elements of coastal systems and become...
Dr. Karen Lowrie leads planning team for City of Elizabeth revitalization projects
Karen Lowrie, Ph.D., is leading EAC's work on the planning team for two different neighborhood revitalization projects in the City of Elizabeth, NJ. Working with the Elizabeth Development Company, Dr. Lowrie is helping to prepare neighborhood revitalization plans for the Midtown District and for the Elizabethport/New Point Rd. neighborhood as part of the...
Dr. Karen Lowrie to co-lead Health in All Policies Continuing Education Training Course
Karen Lowrie, Ph.D. at the Environmental Analysis & Communications Group and Leigh Ann Von Hagen, AICP/PP at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (both at Rutgers' Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy) will co-lead "Health in All Policies (HiAP)", an on-line course offered through Rutgers Continuing Education that is recommended for...
Dr. Karen Lowrie discusses Health in All Policies at the 2021 New Jersey Sustainability Summit
Dr. Karen Lowrie of the EAC Group presented a session on "Health in All Policies: Integrating Health into Decision-Making" as part of the New Jersey Sustainability Summit on May 20, 2021. Dr. Lowrie's presentation was part of a panel on the new Gold Star Standard in Health for Sustainable Jersey. Other panelists were Charles Latini, Jr. of the American...
IHC Workshop on Principles and Practices of Creating Accessible Content
A workshop focused on making your websites, blogs and print media accessible for all audiences. Friday, May 21, 2021, 12:00on to 2:00pm EST Presented by Natalia Kouraeva of Rutgers Teaching and Leaning with Technology (TLT), Office of Instructional Design, our third workshop in May will focus on making your websites, blogs and print media accessible for...
IHC Workshop on Web Based Collaboration Tools, Part 2
Introduction to Google Tools - Jamboard, Forms, Shared Drive and more! Thursday, May 13, 2021, 8:30am to 10:00am EST Presented by Michael Samman, Instructional Designer with Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, this workshop offered an introduction to several popular web-based collaboration tools. The tools discussed and demonstrated in...
IHC Workshop on Web Based Collaboration Tools, Part 1
Introduction to Zoom and Mentimeter Thursday, May 6, 2021, 8:30am to 10:00am EST Presented by Michael Samman, Instructional Designer with Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, this workshop offered an introduction to several popular web-based collaboration tools. The tools discussed and demonstrated in this two-part workshop include,...
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Development of Local Government Resilient Microgrids
Also referred to as “community” or “town center” microgrids, local government microgrids are defined as “microgrids developed in downtown areas of communities that deliver power to a physically non-contiguous group of critical facilities, often involving multiple...
Advancing Shared Solutions to Intersect Climate Action and Health Equity: Opportunities for NJ to advance health equity-informed climate solutions
The American Public Health Association has declared climate change a public health emergency and, nationally, climate change experts, public health practitioners, and leaders of communities at the frontline of climate impacts point to how climate change exacerbates...
Advanced Clean Truck Rule Health Impact Assessment
Karen Lowrie led a rapid Health Impact Analysis study, submitted as a report in 2021 under the Public Comment period for the proposed DEP rule on Advanced Clean Trucks. The report offers a “health lens” through which to view some of the potential impacts of...
Co-production of Community-based Air Quality Education Intervention to Reduce Exposures for Health Promotion and Environmental Justice
This workshop shares knowledge and strategies related to building just communities and accessing just technologies in context of a 4-year campaign to co-produce a series of air quality interventions at a US Census low-income affordable housing site in Elizabeth, NJ,...