Karen Lowrie, Ph.D. at the Environmental Analysis & Communications Group and Leigh Ann Von Hagen, AICP/PP at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation...
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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...
New Risk Analysis virtual issue on Environmental Justice
This virtual issue provides a compendium of papers from the 1980's through the present that examine some of the risks and disadvantages that people...
EAC releases report with colleagues at Rutgers on engagement of socially vulnerable populations in climate resilience planning
EAC staff are collaborating with others at Rutgers and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to develop data, guidance and policy...
EAC team produces report on health impacts of New Jersey’s draft Energy Master Plan
Rutgers scholars have been at the forefront of promoting Health in All Policies (HiAP) as a collaborative approach to reducing disparities and...
Karen Lowrie, Ph.D. receives the Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award at the 2018 SRA Annual Conference
Karen Lowrie, Ph.D. received the Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award at the 2018 Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Annual Conference in New...
EAC Team to survey organizations engaged in Delaware River watershed conservation
EAC Team members, Dr. Michael Greenberg, Jeanne Herb, Dr. Karen Lowrie and Sara Malone will design and implement a survey to assess the...
EAC’s Karen Lowrie co-authors article in Chronicles of Health Impact Assessment journal
EAC's Karen Lowrie and Leigh Ann Von Hagen of the Voorhees Transportation Center wrote an article about the training sessions that they have...
Health Impact Assessment: Incorporating Health into Planning and Decision-Making
Health Impact Assessment: Incorporating Health into Planning and Decision-Making Feb. 1, 2019 Offered by Rutgers Continuing Professional...
EAC reviews environment and climate change indicators to support healthy community planning
With support from the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation hosted by the University of Wisconsin,...
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First, Do No Harm: Algorithms, AI, and Digital Product Liability
The ethical imperative for technology should be "first, do no harm." But digital innovations like AI and social media increasingly enable societal harms, from bias to misinformation. As these technologies grow ubiquitous, we need solutions to address unintended...
Focus Group Synthesis for Increasing Access to Nature for People with Disabilities
This project is a component of a research-informed white paper focused on the challenges and opportunities associated with access to outdoor recreation for people with disabilities in New Jersey. This report shares the key findings from three focus groups with people...
Research Summary of State Policies for Increasing Access to Nature for People with Disabilities
First, we discuss federal policies that increase public recreation access to the outdoors, in order to understand how states have used this context to inform their own efforts to increase outdoor access. Using policy examples from twelve states (Alaska, California,...
Access to Nature for People with Disabilities: Barriers, Challenges, and Opportunities
This white paper explores the physical and mental health benefits of outdoor recreation and nature, focusing on those with disabilities. The paper has four sections. Section 1 examines the physical health benefits of access to outdoor recreation and nature, such as...