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 state DCA […]
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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 practitioners and policymakers […]
2021, continuing education, course, Health in All Policies, HiAP, Lowrie, Von HagenDr. 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, […]
conference session, Health in All Policies, Lowrie, Sustainable JerseyEAC 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 improving the health of all communities and people by incorporating health considerations into decision-making across sectors and policy areas. As part of the EAC team’s continuing HiAP efforts in New Jersey, they prepared […]
2019, energy, Hagen, HIA, LowrieEAC Staff Develops Indicators of Health Inequities in New Jersey

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leaders program, EAC staff are working to develop a set of health inequity indicators for New Jersey. The focus of this project is on examining “upstream” or social determinants of health. The EAC team developed a screening approach to better understand disproportionate environmental burden […]
2019, Culture of Health Leaders, Greenberg, health, health inequities, Herb, indicators, RWJF, WhytlawEAC’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 conducted for professionals on Health Impact Assessment in conjunction with the Rutgers Office of Continuing Education. This “Perspectives from the Field” article is in the November 2018 issue of the Chronicles of […]
health impact assessment, HIA, LowrieEAC’s Dr. Lowrie to lead Age-Friendly Planning Studio focused on Farley Towers in Elizabeth

In the Fall of 2018, EAC’s Dr. Karen Lowrie is leading a class of MCRP students in a studio class that focuses on Farley Towers, a senior living facility managed by the City of Elizabeth Housing Authority. Students will examine the opportunities to improve and expand outdoor areas to accommodate passive and active recreation for […]
Elizabeth, health, Lifelong Elizabeth, Lowrie, seniorEAC Karen Lowrie co-facilitates PHCI workshop in southern NJ

Karen Lowrie co-facilitated a workshop on May 9 at the Rutgers Atlantic Cape campus with Leigh Ann Von Hagen as part of the Planning Health Communities Initiative. Health Department members from four Southern New Jersey counties learned about Health Impact Assessment and Health in All Policies, in preparation for selecting projects in their counties that could benefit […]
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