Capstone Projects
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The residents responsibilities and projects included: completing a series of rotations through the six main divisions of the organization; completing the IRB approval process to conduct a survey-based smallpox vaccination research study; participating in …
VA NY Harbor Healthcare System
"Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City (BBBS) Center for Training and Professional Development engaged the Capstone team to conduct research on the needs and challenges of the immigrant youth population in the New York City region. In order to gather …
Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City
The Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens, a 235-bed community hospital was purchased by Mount Sinai Hospital in June 1999. The resident had the opportunity to collaborate directly with the Chief Operating Officer of the hospital on a variety of projects. The …
Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens
Public pension systems are integral components of state and local government finance, but the funding of these systems is emerging as a major fiscal challenge in cities across the United States. The growth rate of financial obligations across public …
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Health Hygienes (DOHMH) Office of Environmental Surveillance and Policy (OESP) is charged with gathering, analyzing, interpreting and utilizing data to evaluate the environmental public health needs of …
Office of Environmental Surveillance and Policy, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
In December 2004, an earthquake shook Southeast Asia creating a tsunami that devastated the region. In Indonesia, an estimated 150,000 people were dead or missing and just over a half-million people were displaced by the disaster. Prior to the tsunami, a …
United Methodist Committee on Relief: Indonesia Assessment
New York Methodist Hospital is a voluntary, acute-care teaching facility located in Park Slope Brooklyn affiliated with the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. As a member of the administrative staff, the resident provided operational support on many …
New York Methodist Hospital
The New York Organ Donor Network (NYODN) is one of the nations largest nonprofit, federally designated organ procurement organizations (OPO). The resident worked on several projects, the most rewarding of which was the Caribbean Initiative. This project …
New York Organ Donor Network
The resident played a lead role in the DME (Durable Medical Equipment) Program. During her rotation in the Rehabilitation Clinic, the resident learned that the hospital had been giving out durable medical equipment, such as canes and crutches, to the …
New York University Downtown Hospital
The resident was involved in many ongoing and new projects within the Planning and Business Initiatives Department. A comprehensive faculty recruitment process was developed by the office and is now in transition to an online, interactive web-based …
New York University School of Medicine
The residents responsibilities and projects included: interviewing and shadowing key executives for broader exposure and a better understanding of communications pertinent to the functionality of academic medical centers; coordinating data for metrics …
New York University School of Medicine
The resident had the opportunity to work with several managers at the Ambulatory Care Network (ACN) , which is clustered around Weill Cornell Medical Center and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. The residents projects spanned across the areas of …
New York-Presbyterian Hospital Ambulatory Care Network
The Department of Procurement and Contract Managements primary involvement in compliance involves conforming to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. The HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules state that a covered entity is …
North ShoreLIJ Health System
Completing a project under the direction of senior leadership of the North ShoreLong Island Jewish Health System Quality Management Department, the administrative residents had the opportunity to determine why the compliance rate for smoking cessation …
North ShoreLong Island Jewish Health System
At the NYU Medical School Faculty Group Practice the resident had the opportunity to be involved in various projects including assisting senior management and practice managers in achieving operational and financial goals. The resident provided research …
NYU School of Medicine Faculty Group Practice
Odyssey House, Inc. is a nonprofit addiction treatment center within the enhanced therapeutic community treatment model, offering family, adult, and adolescent mental health treatment programs at facilities in various locations throughout New York. The …
Odyssey House, Inc.
The Our World Survey 2007 captures the perceptions, attitudes and knowledge young people (ages 15-24), in all regions of the world, have on the topics of global citizenship and identity. The results and analysis of this survey are intended to inform …
Education Development Center
"The Municipal Development Partnership of Eastern and Southern Africa (MDPESA) sponsored the Africa Regional Seminar on Participatory Budgeting in Durban, South Africa, in March 2008 to explore participatory budgeting and governance in the African …
Municipal Development Partnership of Eastern and Southern Africa
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is a non-partisan, independent office serving the United States Congress through monitoring, research, and projections for the future. They take particular interest in the nations financial picture. GAO engaged …
US Government Accountability Office
The resident has been involved in a major planning process aimed at improving ambulatory care encounters. She was responsible for conducting the patient survey and performing correlational analysis. The resident also helped lead, and collected data from, …
Weill Cornell Physician Organization
In the past decade, academic institutions have begun to pay increasing attention to societal challenges and their role in contributing to their solutions. Social responsiveness (SR) - scholarly based activities with projected outcomes that contribute to …
University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences and New York University
The Abyssinian Development Corporation (ADC) is a nonprofit community development organization based in Harlem. This Capstone project provides a policy analysis focused on expiring use, distressed Section 8 properties. The policy analysis and resulting …
Abyssinian Development Corporation
Established in 1999, Justice for Our Neighbors (JFON) is a program of the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Its mission is a faith-driven ministry welcoming immigrants into churches and communities by providing free, high-quality immigration legal …
United Methodist Committee on Relief, Justice for Our Neighbors Program
"The Division for Public Administration and Development Management of UNDESA examines issues of public administration, public finance, and public management at the United Nations. The Capstone team was enlisted to conduct research about citizen engagement …
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs