Staff from the Planning Healthy Communities Initiative will conducted a desktop Health Impact Assessment of the New Brunswick Municipal Public Access Plan. The HIA examined the projected impacts of the plan elements on aspects of local public health including recreational opportunity, public safety, social cohesion and local economic development. The study largely focused on existing literature and secondary sources as its data sources, and also incorporated new primary data obtained through a 2016 public survey administered as part of the Public Access Plan development. The final report is available here.
Meet the 2026 New Jersey Leadership Collective Fellows
New Jersey Leadership Collective’s mission is to train leaders who are committed to moving the communities they serve and the Garden State forward. They aim to make progressive change to legislation and policies through building collective power and taking collective...