Herb, Jeanne, Lowrie, Karen, Auermuller, Lisa Findley, Patricia. (2019). A seat at the table: Integrating the needs and challenges of underrepresented and socially vulnerable populations into coastal hazards planning in New Jersey. Submitted to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Climate Resilience. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ. […]
2019, Auermuller, Climate, coastal, Findley, Herb, NJDEP, NOAA, report, resilience, socially vulnerableEAC staff are collaborating with others at Rutgers and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to develop data, guidance and policy recommendations for integrating the needs of underrepresented and socially vulnerable populations into coastal climate change resilience planning. Supported as a Project of Special Merit by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the […]
Auermuller, Findley, Herb, Lowrie, NJDEP, NOAA, policy recommendations, PSM, socially vulnerable populations
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, Lowrie
Malone, Sara, Karen Lowrie, Jeanne Herb and Michael Greenberg. 2019. Delaware River Watershed Initiative Restoration and Land Protection Practice Diffusion Survey. Prepared for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. The Environmental Analysis& Communications Group. Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. New Brunswick, New Jersey. The primary purpose of the survey was to […]
2019, DRWI, Greenberg, Herb, Lowrie, Malone, NFWF, survey
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, Whytlaw
Karen Lowrie, Ph.D. received the Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award at the 2018 Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Annual Conference in New Orleans on December 4, 2018. The award is granted in recognition of extraordinary service to the Society that deserves special recognition. She has served as Managing Editor for the SRA’s international journal, Risk Analysis since […]
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EAC Team members, Dr. Michael Greenberg, Jeanne Herb, Dr. Karen Lowrie and Sara Malone will design and implement a survey to assess the effectiveness of efforts to inspire and motivate restoration and protection efforts in and around the Delaware River basin. The survey, funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, will assess knowledge diffusion […]
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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 […]
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With support from the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation hosted by the University of Wisconsin, EAC staff Jeanne Herb, Dr. Jennifer Whytlaw and Dr. Karen Lowrie examined strategies to add additional indicators regarding the environment and climate change to the county Health Rankings and Roadmaps platform. Read […]
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