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Formalizing Petare’s Informal Street Vendors… settlement. The tasks included gathering information about the vending practices and spatial location of street … sidewalks in Petare coded with supplemental information about type of product sold. They also conducted a preliminary …
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Conducting a Pilot Community Needs Survey of the Arab-American Population in Southwest Brooklyn… results to determine descriptive demographic information about AAANY’s potential and current client base; barriers … Arab Americans in accessing social services; and opinions about the most significant issues facing the community. Based …
Alumni In Action
Charles Cohen… Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? The Excelsior Service … one of my many roles is to analyze and think strategically about accessibility metrics reported through NYC Transit’s … of the city's subway and bus system. Not just thinking about those with disabilities, but for parents with strollers …
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Evaluation of Continuums of Care For Homeless People… development. This study sought to answer several questions about the ways in which local communities are organized into … further those goals? • What role does data or statistics about homeless people, services, and program performance play in the planning process and in decisions about what to support? • How has the HUD requirement for a …
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Black Student Association… students, allies, and those interested in learning more about these topics. Advisor Martha Stark Executive Board …
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Crime and Community Development… there is growing evidence that families care a great deal about safety and prioritize it above many other community attributes. Concern about safety and crime was one of the main reasons why …
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Poverty, Inequality, and Policy… disadvantage throughout the life course. But when thinking about how ‘successful’ social policies are at alleviating …Publication
Gender, sexual orientation, and adolescent HIV testing: A qualitative analysis… symptoms of illness when they tested positive, and about half of these recognized their symptoms as related to … sought tests. Some young men expressed fear of learning about positive test results, which delayed their testing, and …
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Learning from Diversity: A Theoretical Exploration… that a group's "diversity perspective," or set of beliefs about the role of cultural diversity, moderates diverse group … can be tapped as sources of new ideas and experiences about work. However, simply holding the integration and …
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Banking The World… About 2.5 billion adults, just over half the world’s adult … consider such topics as the complexity of surveying people about their use of financial services; evidence of the impact …
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The Impact of Residency Training on Physicians’ Outlook on AIDS: A Cohort Analysis… willingness to treat people with AIDS (PWAs), concern about exposure to HIV, and perceived benefits of treating … as a clinically valuable experience, and greater concern about exposure was evidenced as training progressed. The …
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Why Do Higher Income Households Move Into Low Income Neighborhoods: Pioneering or Thrift?… This paper offers several hypotheses about which US higher-income households choose to move into … moves. Thirdly, it explores responses to survey questions about residential choices. Evidence is found that, in the US, …
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Disaster Forensics: Leveraging Crisis Information Systems for Social Science… technologies for sensing and recording sociological data about disasters. These technologies are transforming our capacity to gather data about what happens during disasters, and our ability to …
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Reforming Poverty Alleviation Policies… In the world today, about one billion people live on less than one dollar per day, and about two to three billion live on less than two dollars per …
Alumni In Action
Ross Mudrick… and the practical was specifically attractive. Reading about professors who had been at the forefront on issues and challenges I cared deeply about, I realized that these were the people I needed to …
Capstone Projects
Promoting Citizen Engagement in Public Revenue Generation in PostConflict Nations… The Capstone team was enlisted to conduct research about citizen engagement in public revenue generation, … will help UNDESA and its partners enhance their knowledge about mechanisms of engaging citizens in resource …
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The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development… process, interviewed developers and architects about the need for building code reform, and performed a cost … Bronx. The Capstone team proposed recommendations to HPD about the development and implementation of similar code …
Alumni In Action
Julian Metcalf… with an alumna at Moody’s Investor Service. She told me about a new team they had created for which they were looking … network. They are great people, we nerd out and talk about policy, non-profits, government, or just meet up for …
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Understandings of Malaria Diagnosis and Implications for Rapid Diagnostic Test Use in the Centre Region of Cameroon… Preliminary analysis suggests there are information gaps about malaria diagnoses and RDTs for both the public and … and recommendations for future communications strategies about RDTs and malaria. …
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Spatial effects upon employment of outcomes: The case of New Jersey teenagers… of statistical problems in the interpretation of findings about youth employment; Concerns on the youth's choice of …
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Attitudinal and contextual factors associated with discussion of sexual issues during adolescent health visits… Overall, 74% of respondents reported that they had talked about at least one sexual health topic at their last health … no gender differences in the overall likelihood of talking about a sexual health topic. Few adolescents initiated … privately with a clinician and having positive attitudes about discussing sex with a doctor appear to be important …
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Adverse Health Effects, Environmental Attitudes, and Pesticide Usage Behavior of Farm Operators… from pesticides are likely to have heightened concerns about pesticides and are more likely to take greater … experiencing such problems have more heightened concerns about water pollution from fertilizers and pesticides, and … implies that farmers who have had such experiences do care about the effects of application and do engage in alternative …
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Wagner Global Government Network (WGGN)… connect and empower NYU Wagner students who are passionate about public service and have relevant experience. Our … Events are open to anyone interested in learning more about these topics. ADVISOR Natasha Iskander EXECUTIVE BOARD … academic year? Email wagner.activities@nyu.edu to find out about ways to get involved. Email: wagnerglobalgov@gmail.com …
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Sarah Stefanski… Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? As an assistant director at … city agency that provides nonpartisan information about New York City’s budget and economy to elected officials … and city operations, and therefore, the chance to learn about public policy while living in a city grappling with the …