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Reframing Hierarchical Interactions as Negotiations to Promote Change in Health Care SystemsPatricia Satterstrom, Jeff Polzer, and Robert We …
Faculty Profile
Christopher WhongChris Whong is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He works as a technologist building the future of distributed and discoverable data at Qri. ( https://qri.io ). Prior to Qri, he spent 3 …
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Urban Transformation Forum: Mayors Changing Cities | April 18, 2018Urban Transformation Forum: Mayors Changing Cities | April 18, 2018 …
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Curricular ResourcesBringing salmon back to the Columbia river: How Native American tribes are implementing a wa- tershed-wide plan. Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission. The Electronic Hallway and Research Center for Leadership in Action . By Jennifer Dodge and …
Capstone Projects
Revenue Diversification and ProjectionThe Institute of Human Development and Social Change (IHDSC) at NYU is a joint initiative of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; the Wagner School of Public Service; the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and the Office of the …
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Chase SpurlockChase Spurlock is a Lecturer of Health Administration at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Chase Spurlock, PhD is Founder and CEO of Decode Health. Decode is his second startup focused on the use of machine learning approaches to …
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The Decline of Labor Productivity in the 1970’s: The Surprising Role of Embodied Technological ChangeJulia Lane and Richard McHugh …
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Improving Children and Family Services in Iowa: Entry Points to System ChangeSchall, E. …
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Dynamics of School Demographic Change: Immigrant Students and New York CityEllen, I.G., O'Regan, K. & Conger, D. …
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Children Facing Economic Hardship in the United States: Differentials and Changes in the 1990'sThis paper helps document significant improvements in the child low-income rate as well as the significant decrease in the proportion of children who relied on public assistance in the United States during the 1990s. Many disadvantaged groups of children …
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Temporary Integration, Resilient Inequality: Race and Neighborhood Change in the Transition to AdulthoodSharkey, Patrick. …
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Federal funding of doctoral recipients: What can be learned from linked data… Wan Ying Chang, Wei Cheng, Julia Lane, Bruce A. Weinberg …
Capstone Projects
Identifying Needs and Exploring Options for Affordable Housing in a Changing Manhattan Neighborhood"The Capstone team provided the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC) with information to help the organization see the current state of the community and evaluate the feasibility of affordable housing construction in the context of …
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Changing the research landscape: the New York City Clinical Data Research NetworkThe New York City Clinical Data Research Network (NYC-CDRN), funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), brings together 22 organizations including seven independent health systems to enable patient-centered clinical research, …
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Using Multiple Financial Incentive Structures to Promote Sustainable Changes in Health BehaviorsPasquale Rummo, Brian D. Elbel …
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WAGTalk: Sonia Ospina, "Leading Collectively: Insights From Social Change Organizations"Professor Sonia Ospina discusses an important shift in society's understanding of leadership from a leader-centered approach to a connectivity-focused …
Alumni In Action
Char WoodsWhat made you decide to get an EMPA at Wagner? I was a freelance television producer for more than 25 years, and I decided that I wanted to go back to working for a nonprofit or public organization and that getting a master’s degree would open up a lot of …
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Student Spotlight: Abdulla Alhussam (MPA)By Alex Fiorille (MPA) Name: Abdulla Alhussam Hometown: Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) NYU Wagner Degree Program and Specialization: (MPA-PNP) 1. Tell us about yourself. I was born and raised in Dubai during a time of great infrastructure growth. …
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SUMMER 2026 LEAD AND PARKE FELLOWSCameron Burns is from Norwalk, Connecticut. He earned a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from American University’s School of Public Affairs in 2019 and a J.D. and LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Duke University School of Law …
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Access to outpatient care in Manhattan and Paris: A tale of real change in two world citiesFrance's system of universal health insurance (UHi) offers more equitable access to outpatient care than the patchwork system in the U.S., which does not have a UHi system. We investigate the degree to which the implementation of the Patient Protection …
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Flexibility and Conversions in New York City's Housing Stock: Building for an Era of Rapid ChangeIngrid Gould Ellen and Noah Kazis …
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Weaving Color Lines: Race, Ethnicity, and the Work of Leadership in Social Change OrganizationsOspina, S. …
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Co-editing a book manuscript on the intersection of decentralization and climate change policy design and implementationCo-editing a book manuscript on the intersection of decentralization and climate change policy design and implementation …
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Selected ProjectsSocial Innovation and Democratic Leadership: Communities and Social Change from Below is a book that came from a collaborative study with the Autonomous University of Barcelona, which explored the responses of New York City and Barcelona neighborhoods to …