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JAMA essay by Prof. Leonardo Trasande eyes TSCA reform legislation… Trasande, (MPP, MD) writes in an upcoming issue of JAMA about the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) reform …
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The Value of Capstone Projects to Participating Client Agencies… and it has seen significant improvement. But we knew less about whether the project work our students performed was …
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NYU Wagner Labor Initiative and State Futures Release Joint Issue Brief on Strengthening Workers' Rights Through Interstate Cooperation… About State Futures State Futures is a national nonprofit … action. For more, visit https://www.statefutures.org . About NYU Wagner Labor Initiative The NYU Wagner Labor …
Alumni In Action
Brandon West… to me. There is such a strong identity that we all care about what we do, and do it in a compassionate way. I feel …
Alumni In Action
Pablo Villarreal… a network that no other city can. Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? Leading a team of 20+, we …
Alumni In Action
LeMel Lindsey… today? My peers and I were challenged to think critically about policy issues, to be innovative regarding solutions to …
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Student Spotlight: Dhara Shukla (MHA 2024)… Online MHA student, Dhara Shukla, has long been passionate about improving the accessibility and quality of care. Her … in hospital operations at NYU Langone, can you tell us about your responsibilities, projects, and goals as it …
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Anne Montesano… Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? I work for Results For … direct services. The organization was intentional about not only providing direct services but mobilizing … students worked for the NYC government and were excited about it, really opened up the possibility of working for NYC …
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Jasiel Martin-Odoom… policy, business, and impact. Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? At Accion Venture Lab, I … FinTech pitch decks each year. In addition, I write a lot about African tech startups and investing on Twitter . Please … and I worked on a start-up idea. We worked on this for about a year, and, although we didn't take it further, it …
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MPA Student's Encounter with the Former President of Planned Parenthood… experience. Having been very nervous and ignorant about testing options at that age, I was fortunate to learn about the organization. Suffice it to say that the … granted access. Cecile spoke with encyclopedic knowledge about hot-button social issues like the gender wage gap …
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Efforts to Improve Public Policy and Programs Through Improved "Data Practice": Experiences in Fifteen Distressed American Cities"… absence of political will. We find that little is known about the impact of these initiatives on decision making. …
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Entrepreneurship in Services and Socially Disadvantaged in India… social groups, until now, almost nothing has been known about how the socially dis-advantaged groups fare in …
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Alumni Spotlight: Moses Mansu (MPA 2000)… this topic, and conduct health research. Can you tell us about an initiative you are currently working on that either … such as the use of race in making clinical decisions about the success of vaginal birth after cesarean section in …
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The Cost Implications of Prostate Cancer Screening in the Medicare Population… Background : Recent debate about prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based testing for …
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Civic Engagement in Adaptation to Climate Change… Despite a growing concern about the impact of climate change on local communities, …
Alumni In Action
Kate Slevin… Plus, being in a waterfront "city of islands" teaches you about resiliency, transportation, and how to deal with growth …
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Impressed to Inspired: A Conversation with the NYU Wagner Alum Behind New York’s Grassroots Housing Movement … and almost died,” a friend and fellow Wagner student said about his experience house-hunting in New York City. As a … activist integral to the city’s housing rights movement, about her part in one of New York’s landmark rent reform laws. … started, excitement building in her voice as she talked about people climbing up on box benches and kicking off the …
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Jacob Victory… you look at "healthcare reform today", he says, "it's all about reimbursements. No one is talking about how care is delivered. I'm focused on care delivery." … the healthcare world must "do these first and then talk about reimbursing providers." Although Victory thinks …
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Alumni Spotlight: Jake Peña (MPA-PNP 2025)… What does your role entail and what motivates you most about the work you do? My role is primarily to support …
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The Microfinance Promise… The article presents information about a set of financial institutions in underdeveloped … like "group-lending" contracts and new attitudes about subsidies as keys to their success. Group-lending …
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Passengers’ Travel Behavior before and after the adjustment of Regular Bus Collinear Sections: A Case study in the Incipient Phase of Metro Operation in XiamenIncreasing Chinese cities are constructing the metro transit system, which is considered an effective way to reduce urban traffic congestion and meet the rapid growth of travel demand. However, the operation of a new metro line typically coincides with …
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Urban Policy - PhD… research related to urban areas. Fundamentally, cities are about proximity and heterogeneity, which bring both benefits … to residential sorting? What has research taught us about urban political dynamics and the role that governmental … directed at them. What does theory and research tell us about the ways in which location affects these problems and …
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PADM-GP.2144
Debt Financing and Management for Public OrganizationsThis course will focus on the issuance and management of debt by state and local governments as well as nonprofit institutions. The course will serve as an overview of how municipal and nonprofit borrowers access the capital markets, primarily through the …Publication
Resource Allocation, Emergency Response Capability and Infrastructure Concentration Around Vulnerable Sites… occur. Thus, a potentially important input into decisions about allocating funds for security is the proximity of a … The results show that the methodology provides information about patterns of critical infrastructure in regions that is relevant for decisions about how to allocate terrorism security and emergency …