The studio team, led by Professor Barbara Faga in Fall 2023, analyzed areas for new affordable housing in the New Jersey Meadowlands District, an ecologically sensitive and economically valuable location in North Jersey.
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NJDHS, DEP Tour Recreational Area in Pinelands to Spotlight Making Nature Accessible to All
Impact of Inclusive Healthy Communities (IHC) Program Grantee Highlighted First launched in January 2021, the IHC grant program works to support communities and ensure that the voices and needs of people with disabilities are included in healthy community planning. ...
Jeanne Herb selected by NSF and the Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation to serve as NSF-KADF Ocean Decade Champion
Four Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) members, including Jeanne Herb, Executive Director of the Environmental Analysis & Communications Group (CUPR), and colleagues Lisa Auermuller (SEBS), Victoria Ramenzoni (SEBS), and DeeDee Bennett-Gayle...
Meadowlands Resilience Planning
This Spring 2023 studio report includes an evaluation of existing resilience planning in the New Jersey Hackensack Meadowlands District and the larger Meadowlands region with recommendations on possible next steps for promoting science-informed, and equitable climate adaptation. The studio was a collaborative effort with the National Science Foundation Coastlines and People Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub
$3.25M in Grants Awarded to Create Inclusive Healthy Communities in NJ
In partnership with CUPR’s Environmental Analysis & Communications Group, led by Executive Director Jeanne Herb, the Inclusive Healthy Communities Initiative of the Division of Disability Services funds projects that promote the health and well-being of individuals with disabilities in the communities where they live.
Jeanne Herb is recipient of NJPHA President’s Award
Jeanne’s work intersects health equity with social determinants of health, environmental sustainability, state, and local public policy, and inclusive, participatory decision-making.
Herb Op-Ed: It’s time to review laws on hazardous materials
The Ohio train derailment should prompt a review of measures that are supposed to protect people and the environment. Many New Jerseyans followed the Feb. 3 derailment of a train operated by Norfolk Southern, near East Palestine, Ohio, that triggered a fire...
NJSPL – Ensuring Access to Nature and Outdoor Recreation: Advancing Health Equity for People with Disabilities
Department of Human Services Division of Disability Services (DDS) launched the Inclusive Health Communities (IHC) grant program, which was designed to advance policies, systems, and environmental conditions (PSE) related to the social determinants of health with the goal of ensuring that people with disabilities equally benefit from healthy communities, programs, and spaces.
New EAC Grant Will Help Find Worldwide “Bright Spots” that Influence PSE Change
EAC’s Executive Director Jeanne Herb and Tisha Holmes of Florida State University embarked on a project funded by the Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions Team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
Beyond buildings, Sandy damaged people’s health
The record-setting Superstorm Sandy that made landfall in New Jersey on Oct. 29, 2012, resulted in both short- and long-term health hazards for residents, some far from obvious. When the floodwaters finally drained, they left potentially contaminated sludge, which...
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