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DiversityPublic agencies have the mandate to consider the plurality of values, concerns and voices of the larger population in their work, as well as to include a wide variety of citizens in their workforce. When diversity is pursued as an organizational …
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Michelle Spatz Recognized with NASPAA Professional Staff AwardNYU Wagner’s own Michelle Spatz, director of academic services and faculty engagement, was named the recipient of the 2024 NASPAA Professional Staff Award. In recognition of her dedication to the Wagner community, Spatz was recently appointed to this new …
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Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care ProgressThousands of measures are in use today to assess health and health care in the United States. Although many of these measures provide useful information, their sheer number, as well as their lack of focus, consistency, and organization, limits their …
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Building Bridges from Margins: The Work of Leadership in Social Change OrganizationsAttention to the relational dimensions of leadership represents a new frontier of leadership research and is an expression of the growing scholarly interest in the conditions that foster collective action within and across boundaries. This article …
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Two faces of patient safety and care quality: a Franco-American comparisonPatient safety, and more broadly the quality of care, is typically discussed with reference to the reduction of preventable adverse events within hospitals and adherence to practice guidelines on care processes. We call it the ‘care-centered approach’ and …
Alumni In Action
Lauren BarancoWhy did you choose NYU Wagner for graduate school? Practical, real life experience. New York City was the ultimate laboratory and classroom, with some of the greatest experts practicing at Wagner. Being a school for Public Service made it stand out among …
Faculty Profile
Patricia SatterstromPatricia Satterstrom is an Assistant Professor of Management at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She is also an affiliate of the Management and Organizations Department at the NYU Stern School of Business. Satterstrom studies the …
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State and Local Government AgenciesReports Protecting Workers: Wage Theft Enforcement for the Local Prosecutor Issued by the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College, July 2022. How district attorneys and state attorneys general are fighting workplace abuses , …
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The Color Bind: Talking (and not Talking) about Race at WorkSince the 1960s, the dominant model for fostering diversity and inclusion in the United States has been the “color blind” approach, which emphasizes similarity and assimilation and insists that people should be understood as individuals, not as members of …
Capstone Projects
Youth and Runaway Services TIL Program AssessmentThe Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) funds programs designed to protect runaway and homeless youth and whenever possible, reunite them with their families. DYCD's Transitional Independent Living (TIL) Programs provide homeless youth …
Capstone Projects
Care Consultants: Improving Communication and Collaboration for the Allen Hospital and its CommunityThe Capstone team was engaged by New York Presbyterian (NYP) to develop a strategy to improve communication and collaboration at Allen Hospital. There are approximately 5,000 nursing home beds and a substantial elderly population in the local community …
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The Emerging Role of Environmental Justice in Decision MakingBetter Environmental Decisions responds to the need for improved environmental decision making by bringing together leading scholars and practitioners to provide a comprehensive interdisciplinary introduction to the subject. Each chapter describes an …
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Transforming Health Management: An Evidence Based ApproachExplores the concept of evidence-based management, demonstrates how it can enhance health management practice, and introduces an organizational structure for promoting the evidence-based approach. Challenge of making better-informed strategic decisions; …
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Three NYU Wagner Alumni Recognized as Notable Leaders in MWBEs New York’s state and local governments have made uplifting minority-and women-owned business enterprises, or MWBEs, a priority. The City & State 2025 Who’s Who in MWBEs power list recognizes the business owners, public officials, and advocates working to …
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Comparison of rehospitalization rates in France and the United StatesObjective: To compare rates of 30-day all-cause rehospitalization in France and the US among patients aged 65 years and older and explain any difference between the countries. Methods: To calculate rehospitalization rates in France, we use an individual …
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Four NYU Wagner Alumni Named 2025 Manhattan Power 100Manhattan is arguably the hub of New York City, and four NYU Wagner alumni have been recognized among City & State’s 2025 Manhattan Power 100 for their places at the heart of it all. 50. Natalia Cineas (MS 2009) and Julian John (MPA 2002); Executives, …
Capstone Projects
Strategic Planning, Marketing, and Capacity Building for St. Stephens Community CenterCentro Communitario was founded in 1995 in response to the increasing number of street children in Matola, Mozambique, many of whom were turning to prostitution due to poverty and malnutrition. Despite the end of Mozambiques sixteen-year civil war, the …
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Strategic Planning, Marketing, and Capacity Building for St. Stephens Community CenterCentro Communitario was founded in 1995 in response to the increasing number of street children in Matola, Mozambique, many of whom were turning to prostitution due to poverty and malnutrition. Despite the end of Mozambiques sixteen-year civil war, the …
Faculty Profile
Maia WoluchemMaia Woluchem is a graduate of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Currently, she is a Technology Fellow on the Civic Engagement and Government Team at the Ford Foundation, where she builds work at the intersection of civic organizing, power …
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Four NYU Wagner Alumni Named to 2025 City & State Bronx Power 100Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez (MPA 1993), Miguel Fuentes (MPA 1974), Lourdes Zapata (MPA 1992), and Thomas Brown (MPA 2000) were named to the 2025 City & State Bronx Power 100 , recognizing the borough’s leaders in business, policy, community engagement, and …
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Transfer ApplicantsCriteria Transfer credits may be awarded if they were: Earned for graduate credit; Earned with a B or better; Earned prior to matriculation at NYU Wagner (including Wagner course credits while matriculated elsewhere at NYU); Earned within five years of …
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NYU Wagner community reflects on identity in public serviceOn February 8, NYU Wagner hosted “Community Conversations: Reflections on Identity in Public Service,” which brought together members of the community for personal and professional conversations on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). During the event, …
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Student Spotlight: Sean Pomory (MPA-HPAM 2024)What motivated you to attend the Wagner School of Public Service? There are so many things that have led to this point in my life. Most recently, I graduated with a masters in religion and ethics from Princeton Seminary in May 2022. I went into that …
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J. Renay LoperJ. Renay Loper centers people as an impact strategist driven by catalyzing change and leveraging the power of strategic partnerships across sectors to shift systems that address complex social problems and injustice in communities, globally. Currently, …