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Twitter Response to the United States Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations against Screening with Prostate Specific Antigen… antigen (PSA) testing using Twitter, a popular social network with over 200 million active users. Materials …
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Adherence to antiretroviral therapy among older children and Adolescents with HIV: A qualitative study of psychosocial contexts… seemed to be effective only under certain circumstances. Social support appeared to have an indirect influence on …
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NYU Tandon and Wagner project to look below the surface to make NYC more resilient… underground infrastructure disruptions and differ in their social and economic resilience in the face of such …
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Highlights from the Class of 2023 Convocation… unwavering commitment to making a positive and lasting impact in the realm of public policy and administration. …
Stories
NYU Wagner Represented at the 2019 CBCF Annual Legislative Conference… development, public health, education, and civic and social justice. Madina P. Ouedraogo (MPA-PNP) attended a …
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Reimagining Cultural Competence: Bringing Buried Dynamics Into the LightMany organizations attempt to increase cultural competence as one way to foster organizational change to enhance equity and inclusion. But the literature on cultural competence is largely silent on the role of emotion, despite the strong feelings that …
Capstone Projects
Options for Designing a Subnational Investment Facility for CambodiaThe proposed Sub-national Investment Facility (SNIF) is a project-based financing facility to be made available to sub-national administrations at the provincial, district, and commune levels to support sustainable investments in local infrastructure and …
Stories
Alumni in Action: Aissata Camara (MPA)… communities to reach their potential by eradicating social barriers and creating economic opportunities. While …
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Evaluation of Continuums of Care For Homeless PeopleThe purpose of this project was to examine Continuums of Care for homeless people throughout the United States, to understand their development, their current structure, and their likely future. A Continuum of Care (CoC) is, ideally, a system for helping …
Stories
NYU Wagner’s 7th Annual Day of Service… in coming together to serve the public and make a positive impact in their local communities. …
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The Microfinance Business Model: Enduring Subsidy and Modest Profit… Recent evidence suggests only modest social and economic impacts of microfinance. Favorable …
Capstone Projects
Decentralization and Local Economic Development Strategies in Latin AmericaThe Capstone team has provided a framework for discussion of a series of case studies on decentralization and local economic development (LED) in Latin America. The case studies are one of the few sources that provide examples of current LED efforts in …
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Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States Since 1950… the growth of private health insurance and of mainstream social programs—such as Medicaid, Supplemental Security …
Alumni In Action
Satish Chandra… and ever enjoyed my job keeping pace with the pattern of social and structured economic transformations (i.e. …
News
Scholars Gather to Explore Methodological Challenges of Collective Leadership ResearchThe Third Annual Collective Leadership Network Research Workshop took place at NYU Wagner from September 29 through October 1. It was hosted by NYU Wagner, home of the Collective Leadership Network (Co-Lead Net), which is an international network of …
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Scholars Gather to Explore the Methodological Challenges of Collective Leadership ResearchThe Third Annual Collective Leadership Network Research Workshop took place at NYU Wagner from September 29 through October 1. It was hosted by NYU Wagner, home of the Collective Leadership Network (Co-Lead Net), which is an international network of …
Faculty Profile
Jerrold H. Abrahams… at ORIX, he was a Board Member for the ORIX Foundation, an impact giving philanthropic organization. Professor Abrahams …
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Growing Older in World Cities: Implications for Healthy AgingDeclining birthrates, increasing longevity and growing urbanization have created a new challenge for cities: how to respond to an aging population. The World Cities Project was designed to examine whether the four largest cities among the wealthiest …
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Cities—faced with climate change—must prove resilient… urban infrastructure that addresses the physical and social vulnerabilities of natural disasters. As a leader of …
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Sequential Events Contributing to Variations in Cardiac Revascularization RatesNumerous studies have demonstrated the importance of race, payor, and gender in determining the use of cardiac services, including revascularization procedures (bypass surgery and angioplasty). However, there has been less investigation into where and …
Capstone Projects
Red Hook EcoDistrict: The Next Wave of Sustainable Urban DevelopmentEnterprise Community Partners (ECP) is a nonprofit organization that has been a passionate and forthright voice, locally and nationally, in the advocacy of issues important to the affordable housing community. ECP is also a national leader in bringing the …
Faculty Profile
Alain Bertaud… Regional Science and Urban Economics) focusing on the impact on urban form of the complex interaction between land …
News
Chicago's Disposable-Bag Tax is Working, Study Finds… by the Mayor’s Office in Chicago to assess the early impact of the new law, which, like New York’s unavailing … bag taxes have been shown to have a significant behavioral impact. For example, a 5-cent tax on disposable paper and …
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Supply Pricing Responses to Sweetened Beverage Taxes at a Large National Fast-Food ChainMore than one-third of adults consume fast-food daily, including sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) that contain more than the recommended daily allowance of calories from added sugars in one serving. Taxes on sweetened beverages are a promising solution to …