NYU Wagner

Judy Polyne is an Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Health and Public Service Research and serves as the Project Director of the national evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care” initiative. Prior to coming to NYU, Ms. Polyné worked as a Research Associate at MDRC, a not-for-profit social policy research organization. In her capacity there, she worked on the Urban Change Project, which studied the effects of welfare reform on women living in large urban communities. In addition, she worked as the survey director for two large surveys of school reform, the Career Academies Project and the Talent Development Project. Ms. Polyné has been teaching the Introduction to Statistics class at NYU’s Wagner School since 2003. Before that, she also co-taught the research capstone at the Wagner School. She holds a Master’s degree in Statistics and also a Master’s degree in Applied Social Research with a concentration in Survey Methodology, both from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.