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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,...
Spring 2021 Graduate Planning Studio explores the D&R Canal Master Plan
Spanning over a 70-mile corridor, the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park (D&R Canal Park) provides millions of New Jersey residents with invaluable access to a tract of pristine natural landscapes and a rich history directly from their (often literal) back door. The canal offers not only an aesthetic and recreational benefit to multiple New Jersey...
2020 and 2021 Raritan River Conferences Canceled
Given the COVID-19 emergency and its disruption to the lives of so many members of Raritan River Basin communities, and out of an abundance of caution and in keeping with Rutgers University actions, we have canceled the 2020 and 2021 Sustainable Raritan River Conferences and Awards Ceremonies. We are determined to return in 2021 with a robust program that...
All Grantees Kick-Off Meeting
In many ways, the IHC grant program is a highly innovative initiative that seeks to undertake upfront and lasting engagement of people with disabilities to advance transformative change in design and decision-making associated with building healthy communities here in New Jersey. The purpose of the February 9th All Grantees Virtual Workshop is to build a...
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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,...
Residential Indoor Air Quality Interventions through a Social-Ecological Systems Lens: A Systematic Review
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is an important consideration for health and well-being as people spend most of their time indoors. Multi-disciplinary interest in IAQ is growing, resulting in more empirical research, especially in affordable housing settings, given...