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Responding to Exponential Organizational Growth with Limited ResourcesNew York City hosts a large immigrant population with more than 100,000 newcomers each year. These immigrants face legal, economic, linguistic, and cultural barriers to healthcare, which lead to racial and ethnic disparities in access to health services. …
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Are Land Use Planning and Congestion Pricing Mutually Supportive? Evidence From a Pilot Mileage Fee Program in Portland, OR… also the political feasibility of a pricing scheme. For urban planners, congestion pricing provides both …
Stories
NYU Wagner Honors 410 Graduating Students at Convocation 2015… degrees: Master of Public Administration, Master of Urban Planning, Executive Master of Public Administration, …
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FRENCH HEALTH CARE SYSTEMCanone, François, and Jean Claude Guyot. "Health Policy in France: A Major Issue in the 1978 Legislative Elections." International Journal of Health Services 8, no. 3 (1978): 509-518. Durieux, Pierre, Carine Chaix-Couturier, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski and …
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Event Recap: Careers in Labor Rights PanelOn February 12, 2025, NYU Wagner’s Office of Career Services and the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative hosted a Careers in Labor Rights panel for a thought-provoking discussion on grassroots labor organizing and initiatives for workers’ rights in the city. The …
Capstone Projects
Development of a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Compliance Plan… The Center for Urban Community Services (CUCS) provides supportive housing … The Center for Urban Community Services, Inc. …
Stories
#MyWagnerLife: Bernard Ortega (MPA-HPAM) TODAY! Follow @nyuwagner MPA #HealthPolicy student @_BernardOrtega as he showcases his #MyWagnerLife . #NYUVets pic.twitter.com/aVPNUipJoH — NYU Wagner (@NYUWagner) April 2, 2015 Follow @_BernardOrtega and @nyuwagner today to see a day in the life …
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CYC: Getting Started… an organization? (e.g. financial manager, policy analyst, urban planner, fundraiser, program director, executive … an interest in a specific policy area (transportation, urban education, child welfare), but not a clear sense of …
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PADM-GP.4155
Disability, Policy and Leadership-Building an Accessible WorldAdvancements in awareness and understanding have led to greater equity and inclusion in society for people with disabilities and health conditions. Developments such as the establishment of Disability Studies as an interdisciplinary field in the 1980’s …Publication
Crisis CommunicationsAlthough now a growing and respectable research field, crisis management—as a formal area of study—is relatively young, having emerged since the 1980s following a succession of such calamities as the Bhopal gas leak, Chernobyl nuclear accident, Space …
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Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality… of neighborhood inequality also means that a new kind of urban policy is necessary for our nation’s cities. Sharkey argues for urban policies that have the potential to create transformative and sustained changes in urban communities and the families that live within them, and …
Capstone Projects
Volunteer Opportunities Would Have to Find Me: A Hospital Marketing Plan to Attract Baby Boomer VolunteersBetween 1946 and 1964, 77 million children were born, creating a baby boom. In 2007, the oldest members of this generation will turn 61 and edge nearer to the traditional retirement age. Yet just as this generation has changed American cultural …
Stories
The Hidden Regulations Behind Streets… used as intended—to store our cars. Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Transportation Policy Zhan Guo sought to …
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Alumni Spotlight: Breandan Ward (EMPA 2018)… employment to health care, culture, sport, business and urban design. This perspective drives my belief in addressing …
Alumni In Action
Alumni Spotlight: Débora Aponte Martínez (MPA 2016)With experience across the nonprofit and public sectors in Puerto Rico, New York, and Washington DC, Débora's works stems from her passion for public service. Today, she serves in the Office of Management and Budget for the Municipality of San Juan where …
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Dying Alone: The Social Production of Urban Isolation… factors to uncover the institutional forces that made the urban environment suddenly so lethal, this article examines … the social production and lived experience of everyday urban isolation. Accounts from ethnographic investigations in … (3) the simultaneous degradation and fortification of urban public space, particularly in segregated neighborhoods …
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Small Schools, Large Districts: Small School Reform and New York City’s Students… have emerged as the favored reform model, especially in urban areas, garnering substantial financial investments from …
Faculty Profile
Jacob VictoryJacob Victory is Associate Clinical Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Director of the Health Law and Strategy Program, a joint Masters of Science degree sponsored by NYU Wagner and NYU Law. Professor Victory …
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PNP - International - ChecksheetMPA-PNP: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND MANAGEMENT I. DEGREE CORE REQUIREMENTS [15 CREDITS] Students must complete or waive the following …
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Running on Empty: The Operating Reserves of US Nonprofit OrganizationsOperating reserves allow nonprofit organizations to smooth out imbalances between revenues and expenses, helping to maintain program output in the presence of fiscal shocks. We know surprisingly little about why nonprofits might save operating reserves …
Capstone Projects
Improving Substance Abuse Treatment Communication Protocol and Process at PalladiaPalladia is a nonprofit organization which offers substance abuse treatment, with a focus on assisting parents in reunifying with their children. Now at a pivotal point in its communication development, Palladia requested a Capstone team to study service …
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Mentoring Immigrant Youth"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 …
Alumni In Action
Jan Luis Mendez GarciaWhere do you work? Describe your current job and how your role contributes to making an impact. I currently work at the New York City Independent Office, a publicly funded agency that provides nonpartisan information about New York City's budget to the …
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Impact evaluation for digital campaigningDigital campaigning organizations represent a new, potentially transformative, arena of political advocacy. Australia-based SumOfUs is a largely, but not exclusively, digital advocacy movement of consumers, workers, and shareholders working globally to …