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NYU Wagner alumnus Yusef Freeman is honored for his work in affordable housing finance… St. Louis. He drew the award during a major industry event called AHF Live: The Affordable Housing Developers Summit at …
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Public Policy Minor(formerly Social & Public Policy Minor) Addressing and understanding policy in areas ranging from education, health, and immigration to sustainability and urban planning is at the heart of NYU Wagner's mission. Drawing on this traditional strength, the …
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NYU Wagner's Impact: Alumni Featured in Power Women 100Multiple NYU Wagner alumnae have been honored in City & State ’s 2023 Power Women 100 , along with friends and affiliates of our school. The Power Women 100 list recognizes the invaluable contributions of women working in and around New York City and …
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Dean's Council Casey Box (GAL ’08, WAG ’11) Director of Global Strategy, The Christensen Fund Casey Box is Director of Global Strategy at The Christensen Fund. Previously, Casey served as the Executive Director of Land is Life, a global network …
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Book Review: Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America… local communities), engage in what Clifford Geertz (1973) called “thick description,” and grasp for broader insights …
Capstone Projects
STRATEGIES FOR ANALYZING COMPLEX SURVEY DATA AND CONDUCTING EFFECTIVE SURVEYS… team to do a trend analysis of its long-running survey called the Unheard Third, which for twenty years has been …
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GREENWAY CONNECTIVITY PLAN… Jersey City’s 2019 Let’s Ride JC Bicycle Master Plan called for more than 20 miles of shared-use bike and …
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Addressing Nurse Absenteeism and Staff SchedulingNewYork-Presbyterian Queens (NYP/Q) is a Level One Trauma Center serving Queens and the New York metropolitan community. The mission of NYP/Q is to be the premier healthcare institution serving the greater community by providing excellence in clinical …
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Inequalities in hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in New York City before and after the affordable care act… Medicaid program, creating health insurance exchanges (now called “marketplaces”) in which people with incomes between …
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A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It… executing the laws, which is what Alexander Hamilton called "the true test" of a good government. This book …
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Congenital Fibrosarcoma and History of Prenatal Exposure to Petroleum Derivatives.Congenital fibrosarcoma (CFS) is a rare fibrous tissue malignancy that usually presents in the first few years of life. It is unique among human sarcomas in that it has an excellent prognosis. We describe a temporal clustering of a number of cases of CFS …
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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 …
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Mark YoungMark Young’s public service career spans more than three decades, spending most of that time in the New York City area concentrating on financial management, budgeting and policy analysis. After a stint as a print journalist, Mark began his government …
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NYU Wagner Capstone: The Beginning of a Lifelong Journey From Fieldwork in Mozambique to a Career in Social Entrepreneurship… to Mozambique to work with a nonprofit social enterprise called the Freeplay Foundation, which provides technology …
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Charles J. Neighbors… communities. Central to our lab is a large dataset called the New York State Medicaid claims file that we built …
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Assessing Qualitative Studies in Public Administration ResearchSystematic reviews of research methods in the public administration field have assessed the progress of research practice and offered relevant recommendations to further develop research quality. But most recent reviews examine quantitative studies, and …
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Developing Educational Tools to Increase Breast, Cervical, and Colon Cancer Awareness in the Queens and Harlem Communities… (DOHMH) launched a citywide health policy initiative called Take Care New York, listing cancer screening as a top …
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Developing a Prototype for the Naturally Occurring Healthcare Community in East Harlem… of crime, illness, and economic disparity. This model, called the Naturally Occurring Healthcare Community (NOHC), …
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Ambulatory Patient Groups Behavioral Health Revenue Projection Model… reimbursement rates and guidelines for Medicaid patients called Ambulatory Patient Groups (APG). The first aim of the …
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Developing Participatory Instruments and Administrative Guidelines for Evaluating and Monitoring the Women's Land Link Africa Program… guidelines, specifically for the land and housing program called Women's Land Link Africa (WLLA). Currently, the WLLA …
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Evaluating the Performance of a Russian NGO in HIV/AIDS Policy and Advocacy… "Epidemiologists have called the increasing incidence of HIV/AIDS in the Russian …
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Travel-Time Savings Resulting from Investments in the NYC Transit SystemThe Move NY campaign has developed a plan to relieve traffic congestion and improve roads, bridges, and public transit in New York City. The plan calls for an overhaul of the City’s current tolling regime by implementing congestion pricing, which would …
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Has falling crime invited gentrification?Since the early 1990s, central city crime has fallen dramatically in the United States. We explore the extent to which this trend may have contributed to gentrification. Using confidential census microdata, we show that reductions in central city violent …
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Alumni Voices: Razakh Abukar Abdirahman (MPA 2019)… had pictured in the US. He and his family moved to a place called Yesler Terrace, America’s first racially integrated …