Compiled by EAC’s Dr. Karen Lowrie, (Managing Editor of Risk Analysis) and Dr. Louis Anthony (Tony) Cox, this special virtual issue of Risk Analysis, prepared a year after Harvey and in the wake of Florence, offers insights on how best to anticipate, communicate, manage, mitigate, respond to, recover from, and learn from such disasters. The […]
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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 […]
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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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Karen Lowrie of EAC, together with Planning Healthy Communities Initiatives (PHCI) colleague Leigh Ann Von Hagen of the Voorhees Transportation Center, conducted training in Health Impact Assessment at nine regional “A-team” meetings held at locations around New Jersey by the NJ Housing and Community Development Network during January and February of 2018. Dozens of representatives […]
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Join EAC for an upcoming training course, Health Impact Assessment: Incorporating Health into Planning and Decision-Making, offered through the Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education. In this session, facilitators from the Planning Healthy Communities Initiative will lead an introductory training on health impact assessment as a tool to promote community health and equity in planning processes and […]
Woodbridge Township Creative Placemaking Plan. June 2017. Project Team: Sara J. Malone and Karen Lowrie. Prepared for the Township of Woodbridge, NJ.
2017, creative placemaking, Lowrie, Malone, WoodbridgeNew Brunswick Parks Strategic Action Plan. January 2018. Project Team: Anthony Cucchi, Bob Heuer, Chrissy Pepino, Jeanne Herb, Karen Lowrie, Wolfram Hoefer, Angela Johnsen, Michael Young, Devin Fields.
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Meet EAC team member, Dr. Karen Lowrie and hear about her work building healthy communities for aging populations in the City of Elizabeth. With support from the Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation, EAC Associate Director Dr. Karen Lowrie is working with a collaboration of partners through Lifelong Elizabeth, a community led, city-endorsed initiative that aims […]
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EAC’s Jennifer Whytlaw, Jeanne Herb, Dr. Karen Lowrie and Dr. Michael Greenberg win grant from the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps. Principal Investigators Jennifer Whytlaw and Jeanne Herb and partners, Dr. Karen Lowrie and Dr. Michael Greenberg, were one of four teams across the country to win a grant award from the County Health Rankings […]
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