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Wagner Policy Alliance… Events are open to anyone interested in learning more about these topics. Advisor Rajeev Dehejia Executive Board …
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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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Student Spotlight: Sean Pomory (MPA-HPAM 2024)… Is there a specific area of health that you’re passionate about? I truly care about hospitals, especially because they should be sites of … move out of the hospital space and try to learn more about other provider avenues and hopefully work with payers …
Alumni In Action
Bryan Perlmutter… such as the Southern Vision Alliance, I learned about how to build organization and build power at a local … and effective organizations. Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? Piece by Piece Strategies is …
Alumni In Action
Nicolas Garcia Cordoba… to become a better professional. Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? I work at the Latin America …
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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 …
Capstone Projects
Civic Engagement in Adaptation to Climate Change… Despite a growing concern about the impact of climate change on local communities, …
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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 …
Alumni In Action
Miriam Surdin… Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? I oversee and manage 10 of …
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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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Elizabeth Angeles… Columbia Spectator, contributing to broader discussions about measuring the true cost of living and its implications …
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NYU Wagner Team a Winner in National Invitational Public Policy Challenge… The team also received invitations to speak nationally about Barbershop Books and to write an article for Governing …
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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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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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URPL-GP.4622
Wealth and InequalityOver the last few decades, disparities in income, wealth, and mobility have widened in the United States, but the U.S. fares worse in wealth inequality than income inequality. Wealth, in particular, is crucial to many functions across the life course and …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 …
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Sharad Aggarwal, Ellen O’Connell … (MPA 2008) and Ellen O’Connell (MPA 1990) recently shared about the efforts their organizations are undertaking. … by the disaster.” “In the coming days we will know more about the ways that the IRC can make the greatest positive …
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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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An Evaluation of the Impact of the Family Health Program on Infant Mortality in Brazil, 1990-2002Objective: To use publicly available secondary data to assess the impact of Brazil's Family Health Program on state level infant mortality rates (IMR) during the 1990s. Design: Longitudinal ecological analysis using panel data from secondary sources. …
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Student Spotlight: Praewa (Wawa) Kulatnam (MPA-HPAM 2025)… pushing me to think more strategically and comprehensively about solutions. … backgrounds succeed can be incredibly motivating. It's about showing that these paths are possible and providing … As someone passionate about mentoring and opening doors for others, what advice …
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New York Times Op-Ed by NYU Wagner's Sherry Glied Explains How to Keep Healthcare Costs Down… Sherry Glied, NYU Wagner Dean and Professor of Public Service, co-authored an op-ed in …
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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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Tuberculosis: History and Its Discontents… community members, John Green fans, and those learning about TB for the first time—ended as an ignited front of … in Staten Island), Virginia Allen, who would often talk about the children who were abandoned at the hospital due to … that, “Despair is a luxury…There is something to be said about persisting.” In countries like India, where there is a …
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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 …