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An Unconventional Path: Seung Hyun Moon’s (MPA-HPAM 2006) Journey from NYU Wagner to BioTech Executive… program, with a plan to explore the other side of working in a hospital—the financial management and … Pharmaceuticals, starting in business development and working his way up to Head of Speciality Franchise. “I was … fast—we’re executing a lot quickly and in a really hard-working environment,” said Moon. “So at the end of the day, I …
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Student Spotlight: Matthew Carcione (MPA-HPAM 2027)… efficiency directly impacts patient outcomes. While working in the operating room, I saw firsthand how much the …
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The Other Danger...Scholasticism in Academic ResearchMost members of the National Association of Scholars worry about the politicization of the university. Academia gives undue preference to racial minorities in student admissions and faculty appointments. Teaching and research is often slanted toward …
Faculty Profile
Olivia Cortellini… to joining the Wagner faculty, Olivia spent three years working as the Statistics Coach for Wagner’s Master of Health …
Faculty Profile
Sunita DesaiSunita Desai is a health economist. Her research investigates how policies and incentives shape health care provider behavior and organizational structure. She also examines the role of information and price transparency in consumer decision-making in …
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The Walter Stafford Project: On Racial Inequality in New York City… in New York City has been characterized by specialists working in isolation from one another. The results are …
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NYU Wagner Alumnus Ignacio Aravena Awarded Chilean Congress Merit Medal… candidate at the London School of Economics and has been working with Fundación P!ensa, a think tank focused on … A recognition of my work encourages me even more to keep working in this intersection, trying better to inform the …
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Program Evaluation… program is effective and impactful is an important part of working in public service. This Program Evaluation Focus Area …
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EXEC-GP.4154
Management Consulting for Public Service Organizations (EMPA)Management consultants work in all corners of the public and nonprofit sectors on every imaginable topic—from organizational strategy to technology implementation, education to migration. But what is management consulting? Why do so many public service …Publication
Collective Leadership and Context in Public Administration: Bridging Public Leadership Research and Leadership StudiesThis article challenges the view that public leadership research should maintain a separate perspective in the study of public leadership. It discusses the benefits of further embedding the public leadership research domain within leadership studies, …
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Planning for an Uncertain Future: Can Multicriteria Analysis Support Better Decision Making in Climate Planning?… potential to perform better than cost-benefit analysis and working group approaches in supporting decision-making …
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Ma Fides Talania, NYU Wagner, Named Global First Runner-Up of the 2021 NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition… Student Simulation Competition . Ma Fides Talania, who is working toward her MPA at NYU Wagner, belonged to the Second …
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MPA-MPH with Global Health Concentration… organization into the field for aid on the front lines or working within government agencies to shape new policies for …
Capstone Projects
ASSESSING THE FEASIBILITY OF EXPANSION INTO NYC CHARTER
SCHOOLS… to obviate some of the process challenges that arise in working with NYC public schools. The team produced an …
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City & State Names Two Alumni to 2025 Arts & Culture Trailblazers ListNew York is home to world-renowned cultural institutions which have driven cultural tourism and cultivated creativity for generations. City & State’s 2025 Trailblazers in Arts & Culture power list highlights the leaders helping New York’s arts and …
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Student Spotlight: Julia Delgado (MPA-PNP 2026)Julia Delgado (MPA-PNP 2026), Wagner Womxn mentorship co-chair Could you share a bit about yourself and tell us what inspired you to attend NYU Wagner? From the beginning of my career, I knew I wanted to work in the social impact space, designing …
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Natasha Lerner… rights, particularly family planning. I hope to continue working toward health care services, government policies, and …
Alumni In Action
Andrew MaguireWhy did you choose NYU Wagner for graduate school? I knew that to grow in the field of international development, I'd need to develop more technical expertise, but I was hesitant to focus on a narrow sub-field. Wagner's MPA program allowed me to hone …
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Economic development without pre-requisites: How Bolivian firms met food safety standards and dominated the global brazil-nut marketBrazilian firms used to dominate the brazil nut (BN) market to such an extent that the product still carries the country’s name. Presently, 77% of all BNs are processed and exported by Bolivia, a country with far fewer resources than its neighbor. This …
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Writing SupportTHE WAGNER WRITING CENTER All the best intentions and brilliant ideas in the world are for naught if they aren’t communicated clearly. In fact, in an era when think tanks have become content creators, public services use texts and tweets to help their …
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Financial Access Initiative… The Financial Access Initiative (FAI) is a research center working at the intersection of financial inclusion, …
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Alumni Spotlight: Andrew Maguire (MPA 2018)… For the past year, Andrew Maguire (MPA 2018) has been working on his upcoming book Teaching Between the Lines , …
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ProjectsThe Collective Leadership Laboratory (Co-Lead Lab) offered Wagner students the frameworks and tools to become more impactful and collaborative leaders. The Fall 2017 program included an academic course , complemented by four one-day trainings available …
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Welfare Reform in Miami: Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and NeighborhoodsThe 1996 national welfare reform law introduced a five-year time limit on federally funded cash assistance, imposed tough new work requirements, restricted benefits for noncitizens, and gave states more flexibility to design their welfare programs than in …