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Samuel SchaffzinWhy did you choose Wagner for graduate school? I chose Wagner because I felt it would provide me with the fundamentals that I needed to launch a career in the broad field of public health and healthcare, and across the government, non-profit, and private …
Alumni In Action
Patrick HessHow did being in New York impact your professional journey? I had been living in New York for 5+ years when I started at Wagner, and my time in graduate school further opened up the city for me in ways that I did not expect. The university and the city …
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Calorie Labeling, Fast Food Purchasing and Restaurant VisitsObjective Obesity is a pressing public health problem without proven population-wide solutions. Researchers sought to determine whether a city-mandated policy requiring calorie labeling at fast food restaurants was associated with consumer awareness of …
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Additional InformationAbout NYU Wagner NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service prepares public service leaders to translate ideas into actions that have an effective and lasting impact on the public good. Our faculty’s research changes the way people frame, …
Faculty Profile
Christopher S. BesserDr. Christopher S. Besser received his PhD in Health Services Research, Management, and Policy at the University of Florida in December 2014. He retired from the US Army in 2022, after 22 years of service as a Medical Service Corps Officer. He has had the …
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects NYU Wagner Dean Sherry Glied a 2022 FellowThe American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) has elected NYU Wagner’s Dean and Professor of Public Service Sherry Glied as a 2022 fellow. “We are celebrating a depth of achievements in a breadth of areas,” said David Oxtoby, President of the American …
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Eric KlinenbergEric Klinenberg is Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He has affiliated appointments at NYU Wagner, the NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, and …
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Performance Standards for Restaurants: A New Approach to Addressing the Obesity Epidemic. Cohen D, Bhatia R, Story MT, Sugarman SD, Economos CD, Whitsel LP, Williams JD, Elbel B, Harris J, Kappagoda M, Champagne CM, Shields K, Lesser LI, Fox T, Becker …
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Uses and Abuses of Value Capture for TransitWith the New York State Fiscal Year 2019 Executive Budget proposal to include a “value capture” mechanism for financing transit, an obscure and highly technical subject suddenly has generated considerable attention. This report explores the purpose of, …
Stories
Alumnus Helps Set Up COVID-19 Testing SiteSamuel Schaffzin (MPA-HPAM 2003) is a Captain in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps and recently returned from a deployment in support of the COVID-19 response where he helped set up a federally-supported, state-run, …
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Measuring and Monitoring Children’s Well BeingBen-Arieh, A., Kaufman, N.H., Andrews, A.B., George, R.M., Lee, B.J. & Aber, J.L. …
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PhD Student Wins Research Grant from The Horowitz Foundation for Social PolicyNYU Wagner student Robert Collinson has been awarded a $7,500 grant by The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for his continuing scholarship on “The Causes and Consequences of Residential Evictions: Evidence from New York City." Collinson is a PhD …
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Research Article Finds Persistent Health Care Inequalities in ManhattanIn Manhattan, the public's access to timely and effective outpatient care improved by a “remarkable” extent from 1999 to 2013, according to a newly published article coauthored by Victor Rodwin of NYU Wagner. However, major disparities persisted during …
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Alumni Spotlight: James Stratford (EMPA 2021)James Stratford (EMPA 2021), Executive Director, NYC Young Men's Initiative As the Executive Director of the NYC Young Men’s Initiative, can you share insights into your role and your key responsibilities in day-to-day operations? I am a product of the …
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Research at NYU Wagner will explore how transportation and housing sectors can help build a "culture of health"The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ( RWJF ) has selected NYU Wagner to carry out research on policies, laws, and other regulatory tools that can support RWJF’s mission to build a “culture of health” in the public and private sectors. RWJF’s new research …
Alumni In Action
Anne MontesanoCan you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? I work for Results For America (RFA), a national nonprofit that helps all levels of government use data and evidence to drive decisions and policymaking in order to advance economic mobility and …
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Emergency Department Use in New York City: A Survey of Bronx PatientsIn the absence of universal coverage and an effective primary care delivery system for vulnerable populations, hospital emergency departments (EDs) are the ultimate safety net for many patients. This is especially true in New York City, where nearly 75 …
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Environment and obesity in the National Children's StudyOBJECTIVE: In this review we describe the approach taken by the National Children's Study (NCS), a 21-year prospective study of 100,000 American children, to understanding the role of environmental factors in the development of obesity. DATA SOURCES AND …
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Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and MexicoAt the turn of the twenty-first century, with the amount of money emigrants sent home soaring to new highs, governments around the world began searching for ways to capitalize on emigration for economic growth, and they looked to nations that already had …
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A world without prisons: Improving prisoners' lives and transforming the justice systemCassandra Shaylor and Cynthia Chandler founded Justice Now in 2000. They push hard for prison abolition while advocating for better health care and conditions for prisoners in California's two largest women's prisons. They prioritize the leadership of …
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The Merit and Reputation of an Administration: Presidential Appointees on the Appointments ProcessAmerican government was designed to be led by citizens who would step out of private life to serve their nation, then return to their communities enriched by that service and ready to recruit the next generation of citizen servants. The Founding Fathers …
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Rumsfeld's Revolution at DefenseWhatever his legacy as an architect of the war in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has already earned a place in American bureaucratic history as one of its most ambitious organizational reformers. Rumsfeld is determined to complete a top to bottom …
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Use of Preventive Care Services, Beneficiary Characteristics, and Medicare HMO Performance.The superior performance of HMOs in providing preventive care--both in the population at-large (Miller and Luft, 1994), and within the elderly Medicare population (Ballard et al., 1997; Potosky et al., 1998; Retchin and Brown, 1990)--may be due to the …
Faculty Profile
Lily BatchelderLily Batchelder, the Robert C. Kopple Family Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, is one of the nation’s leading voices on tax law and policy. She is an affiliated professor at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service, faculty director of the Furman …