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Shuai RenWhy did you choose Wagner for graduate school? I'm from a planning background and wanted to learn how the world's most famous city, New York, does its planning and manages its procedures. Coming from a developing country context where urbanization is …
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Health Services and Research and the CityHealth services research is, by nature, multidisciplinary, for it draws on the methods,concepts and theories of social sciences, which are relevant to the study of how the organization and financing of health services can improve the delivery of health …
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Wagner Climate ActionMission The Wagner Climate Action (WCA) group insists that climate literacy and fluency in the emerging challenges of environmental sustainability and climate change are critically important to the development of public service professionals at NYU …
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Karin SommerKarin Sommer is the Executive Director of the Division of Transportation Planning and Management at NYC DOT, where she helps oversee the design of city streets, including the development of bicycle, pedestrian, and public space programs, the City’s Vision …
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NYU Wagner student and alumna awarded fellowship by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and ManagementJustin Campos (MPA 2023) and Sih-Ting Cai (MPA 2017) have been honored as 2022 Equity & Inclusion Fellowship Student Recipients by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). APPAM is a professional association dedicated to …
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New York Building Congress and NYU Wagner Launch New Fellowship to Expand Research and Advocacy ProgramsThe New York Building Congress and NYU Wagner have partnered to launch a new Fellowship in Urban Policy and Planning. The Fellowship Program places Wagner graduate students into part-time employment with the Building Congress. The program offers graduate …
Capstone Projects
Confia – “El Futuro en Tus Manos”The Mexican community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in New York City and also one of the most disenfranchised and excluded from the financial sector. EA Consultants envisions a new organization, Confia, to empower the Mexican …
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Development of an Electronic Food Stamp Application System in New York City"Currently, the application for food stamps in New York City is a paperdriven process, whereas many other jurisdictions have made at least part of their processes electronic. The team has performed an assessment of and will make recommendations on how …
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Alumni in Action: Supporting and Empowering Nonprofits in New York CityJennifer Geiling (EMPA) left her job as a corporate lawyer to start a nonprofit for adults with developmental disabilities. She wanted to make a greater impact on the nonprofit sector, so she decided to attend NYU Wagner. As a graduate of the EMPA …
Capstone Projects
DESIGNING AN INNOVATION HUB IN ETHEKWINIThe World Bank Group’s Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice recognizes the essential role that local governments play in building inclusive, healthy, resilient, and sustainable cities. The World Bank enlisted a Capstone team to assist in …
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MEASURING ORGANIZATION-WIDE IMPACTExpandED Schools is an education nonprofit that provides after-school programming in New York City, and has served over one million children since 1998. Its mission is to close the learning gap by increasing access to enriched education experiences. Since …
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PUBLIC LIFE STUDY TOOLKIT DESIGNUnion Square Partnership (USP) is a Business Improvement District (BID) that helps manage and promote the economic development of the greater Union Square Park and 14th Street corridor area in Manhattan. USP’s responsibilities include maintenance, …
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Leadership, Diversity and RaceFoldy, E. G. & Ospina, S. 2015. “ Leadership styles, ethnicity and race. ” Entry for Hou, Xiaoshuo (ed.) Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. Blackwell. Ospina, S., El Hadidy, W. Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion: Insights from …
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Unintended Negative Consequences of Rewards for Student Attendance: Results from a Field Experiment in Indian ClassroomsIn an experiment in non-formal schools in Indian slums, a reward scheme for attending a target number of school days increased average attendance when the scheme was in place, but had heterogeneous effects after it was removed. Among students with high …
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Access to, use of and satisfaction with health services among adults enrolled in Brazil’s Family Health Strategy: evidence from the 2008 National Household SurveyObjective To assess the effects of participation in Brazil’s primary healthcare programme (the Family Health Strategy or FHS) on access, use and satisfaction with health services among adults. Methods Data are from the 2008 National Household Survey …
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Francis YuFrancis Yu (they/them) is a Bay Area native and has experience in community organizing, community development, and local government. They most recently served a role as a Housing Fellow for the New York City Housing Preservation and Development agency …
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Data Inventories for the Modern Age? Using Data Science to Open Government DataThis article describes how data science techniques—machine learning and natural language processing—can be used to open the black box of government data. It then describes how an incentive structure can be established—using human–computer interaction …
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Quantifying the economic consequences of childhood obesity and potential benefits of interventionsThe article under evaluation analyzed healthcare utilization data from the German Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents, a representative cross-sectional survey that quantifies healthcare services and costs by category. The author …
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WagTalks: Presidential Policy — Migration and Immigration with Natasha IskanderHere at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, we are fortunate to have an esteemed faculty of experts whose knowledge spans timely and relevant topics across public service focus areas. As we all seek to navigate the policies of the …
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Roundup: Sarah Kaufman's Media Appearances on Congestion Pricing Rollout As New York City launched its congestion pricing program on January 5, 2025, Director of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation and NYU Wagner Associate Professor of Public Service Sarah Kaufman emerged as one of the most sought-after experts on this …
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Health Care in World Cities: New York, London and ParisNew York. London. Paris. Although these cities have similar sociodemographic characteristics, including income inequalities and ethic diversity, they have vastly different health systems and services. This book compares the three and considers lessons …
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Transport, the Environment and Security: Making the ConnectionEffective means of transport are critical under both normal and extreme conditions, but modern transport systems are subject to many diverse demands. This path-breaking book uniquely draws together the typically conflicting arenas of transport, the …
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Public Education in the Dynamic City: Lessons from New York CityThe plight of urban schools and their failure to adequately and efficiently educate their students has occupied the national discussion about public schools in America over the last quarter century. While there is little doubt that failing schools exist …
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What Happens after an Abortion Denial? A Review of Results from the Turnaway StudyWe provide a brief overview of the Turnaway Study, the first study to collect longitudinal data on individual women who received versus were denied a wanted abortion in the United States. The study team collected data on nearly 1,000 women seeking an …