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The Context for Intelligent Transportation Systems in New York State: Opportunities, Constraints, and the Need for Greater Institutional CoordinationPrepared at the request of the New York State Assembly Legislative Commission on Critical Transportation Choices, and funded by an appropriation made available from the New York Department of Transportation's budget, the purpose of this report is to …
Capstone Projects
Training Needs Assessment for New York City Government AgenciesNew York City’s government employees receive centralized training from the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) and decentralized training from their respective agencies. DCAS has taken minor steps toward determining the feasibility of a …
Capstone Projects
Laying the Groundwork for a New HIV/AIDS Public Awareness CampaignThe New York AIDS Coalition (NYAC) is an alliance of more than 200 HIV/AIDS service organizations in New York City and State. Recently, NYACs members became aware that the general public is still uneducated and apathetic about HIV/AIDS. To assess the …
Capstone Projects
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Environmental Protection FundThe mission of the Environmental Advocates of New York is to protect the air, land, water and wildlife, and the health of all New Yorkers. Their work includes monitoring the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), New York State’s primary source of funding …
Capstone Projects
After September 11, 2001 - The Impact of Terrorism on Lower Manhattan Business Relocation PatternsOn September 11, 2001, business in Lower Manhattan changed in a way that no one ever expected. The attacks destroyed and damaged approximately 40 percent of Lower Manhattan's commercial space and immediately cost downtown the temporary loss of 114,000 …
Alumni In Action
Traci SandersWhy did you choose Wagner for graduate school? I had been out of school for five years before I decided to pursue a graduate degree, and a series of very fortunate events led me to Urban Planning. The two most important factors in my decision were 1) the …
Faculty Profile
Palak KaushalPalak Kaushal is the Deputy Chief of Staff at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD). She works closely with the Commissioner and senior staff in advancing the agency's housing priorities for the city of New York, …
Capstone Projects
PLANNING FOR A PERMANENT OPEN RESTAURANTS PROGRAMThe COVID-19 pandemic devastated the restaurant industry in NYC when establishments were forced to close their doors to limit the spread of the virus. In June 2020, the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) launched the Open Restaurants program allowing …
Capstone Projects
Integrating Social Determinants in a 30-Day Congestive Heart Failure Readmission Assessment ToolAffiliated with two Ivy League medical schools, New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) is one of the largest hospitals in New York City. Of NYP’s 44,764 patients discharged from January – May 2015, 3,509 (7.8%) were readmitted within 30 days. Among the …
News
Wagner Career Services and International Student Society speak on the future of workOn February 3, 2023, the NYU Wagner Office of Career Services (OCS) partnered with the Wagner International Student Society (WISS) to host a networking lunch and workshop for Wagner students. Students from across NYU Wagner’s diverse degree programs …
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Dying Alone: The Social Production of Urban IsolationIn July 1995 over 700 Chicago residents, most of them old and impoverished, died in a short but devastating heat wave. As part of a `social autopsy' of this disaster that goes beyond natural factors to uncover the institutional forces that made the urban …
Capstone Projects
Making the case for New York City’s age-friendly local business initiativeOver the last few years, the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) has seen how store layout and indifferent service can make older New Yorkers feel marginalized and discourage them from shopping independently. Given the projected growth of the older …
Capstone Projects
Preventive Services Available to Adolescents At Risk of Entering New York City’s Foster Care SystemCitizens Committee for Children (CCC) is a 60-year old child advocacy organization whose mission is to ensure that every New York City child is healthy, housed, educated, and safe. CCC requested that the Capstone team study preventive services available …
Capstone Projects
Preventive Services Available to Adolescents At Risk of Entering New York City’s Foster Care SystemCitizens Committee for Children (CCC) is a 60-year old child advocacy organization whose mission is to ensure that every New York City child is healthy, housed, educated, and safe. CCC requested that the Capstone team study preventive services available …
Capstone Projects
Improving Supply Procurement on Nursing UnitsFor years, nurses have struggled with balancing bedside service, direct patient care, teaching, and an array of other daily tasks. Several studies have shown that nurses can spend seventeen percent or more of their shift administering medications, which …
Course
PADM-GP.2132
Social Entrepreneurship and InnovationThis course provides an in-depth exploration of social entrepreneurship and innovation as a set of promising pathways to drive social change across sectors using a systems-led approach. Students will delve into understanding complex social and …Stories
Alumni Spotlight: Christopher Nolan (MPA-HPAM 2013)"I was able to see how social and health policy are essentially interchangeable," writes Christopher Nolan (MPA-HPAM 2013), who serves as Director of Anchor Initiatives, Community Health Improvement at BJC HealthCare. His recent work includes community …
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Housing the Next Million New Yorkers Near TransitNew Yorkers take pride in the idea of their city as a place of opportunity. A future New York City that mostly houses those who are already successful, and no longer serves as an avenue of opportunity for upward-striving people from throughout the nation …
Faculty Profile
Jenny DorenJenny Doren, M.B.A., M.S., is an Adjunct Lecturer of Health Administration at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Storytelling has been a constant in Jenny’s career, which began in television news and evolved into executive …
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About Leadership in Action at WagnerNo one individual, organization, or sector is capable of addressing the pressing issues of today’s shared-power world. Shifting geopolitical and digital landscapes require that we move beyond traditional "heroic" conceptions of leaders to instead …
News
U.S. Healthcare Policy "Roller Coaster" in Focus as Sherry Glied Delivers the Spring 2017 Jack & Lewis Rudin Lecture“It has truly been a policy roller coaster on so many fronts – and healthcare not least among them,” Sherry Glied, Dean of NYU Wagner , said as she began the recent Spring 2017 Jack and Lewis Rudin Lecture at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. …
Publication
Street standards as parking policy: rethinking the provision of residential street parking in American suburbsThis paper examines the parking mandate in residential street standards in the U.S. Based on literature review and a national survey of 97 principal cities in the top 52 metro areas, it reveals two unjustified assumptions behind the mandate: traffic lanes …
Stories
NYU Wagner’s 7th Annual Day of ServiceDuring the spring semester, NYU Wagner students across the country came together to participate in the annual WagnerCares Day of Service. In addition to service projects in New York City, alumni in the Bay Area, Washington DC, and Los Angeles …
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Alumni Spotlight: Hunter Johansson (MPA 2018)Solar Responders (SR), a New York-based nonprofit organization, installs solar power and battery storage in fire stations in Puerto Rico. The organization’s mission was developed in response to the devastation Hurricane Maria caused to the island’s power …