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Alumni In Action
Namon FreemanCAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOUR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES? I’m a manager at Bloomberg Associates (BA), a pro bono consulting firm that works with cities across the globe. I work as part of the sustainability team and lead all of our engagements related to …
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Capstone Expo Highlights 79 Consulting and Research Projects in Public ServiceThe 2016 Capstone Expo brought hundreds of students, professors, and organizational leaders to the Rosenthal Pavilion in NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life, where soon-to-graduate NYU Wagner students displayed a total of 79 poster-board summaries of …
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NYU Wagner Team a Winner in National Invitational Public Policy ChallengeNYU Wagner has done it again! A team of Wagner students has won a $5,000 award as a finalist at the 2015 National Invitational Public Policy Challenge hosted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government—extending Wagner's record of …
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Downtown Brooklyn Setting Pace for Innovative Urban Development, Report FindsThe Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, NYU Wagner's Rudin Center, and Appleseed Inc. unveiled a new report on Feb 23 at the Wagner school, explaining how Downtown Brooklyn became a major destination for innovative urban development, and offering ways to keep …
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Seun OwolabiCan you tell us about your employer and job responsibilities? I work in development and fundraising at North Star Fund. As a social justice organization and community foundation, we provide grants in New York City and the Hudson Valley. In my role, I …
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Program UpdatesAugust 31, 2020 Cohort 4 Graduation Ceremony On June 30, 2020, the eight participants from GWSLP Cohort 4 graduated after the successful completion of all the program requirements. The graduation ceremony was held as a Zoom event. The ceremony provided an …
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NYU, With Two Other Universities, Is Accepting Applications for New Executive Program in Applied Data AnalyticsA new certificate program in applied data analytics will be offered starting January, 2017, through a collaboration of New York University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Maryland. Applications are now being accepted for the cutting-edge …
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PresentationsPresentations (through March 2023) (R. Zimmerman is the presenter where no presenter is indicated; an asterisk indicates presenter if other than or in addition to R. Zimmerman) March 23-27, 2023. “Spatially Dynamic Stakeholder Networks for Vital …
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Early experiences and predictors of recruitment success for the National Children's StudyOBJECTIVES: We aimed to describe 17 months of experience with household recruitment of live births for the National Children's Study in Queens, a highly urban, diverse borough of New York City (NYC), and to assess predictors of recruitment success. …
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Finding the Impact in a Messy Intervention: Using an Integrated Design to Evaluate a Comprehensive Citywide Health InitiativeThis article uses the evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Urban Health Initiative (UHI), a 10-year effort to improve health and safety outcomes in distressed cities, to demonstrate the strength of an evaluation design that integrates …
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Inconsistencies in Place Definition: How Different Operational Place Definitions Affect Estimates of Adolescent Smoking and Drinking RiskWe find that estimates of the prevalence of teenage smoking and drinking in “urban,” “suburban,” and “rural” areas vary with different definitions of these types of geographic units. Given the salience of youth risk behavior to the public debate, we urge …
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Facing the Challenge of Evaluating a Complex, Multi-Site InitiativeWeitzman BC and D Silver. …
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How Residential Mobility and School Choice Challenge Assumptions of Neighborhood Place-Based InterventionsPurpose. Explore the importance of residential mobility and use of services outside neighborhoods when interventions targeting low-income families are planned and implemented. Design. Analysis of cross-sectional telephone household survey data on …
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Calorie Labeling and Food Choice: Results from PhiladelphiaElbel B, Mijanovich T, Dixon B, Kersh R, Abrams C, and BC Weitzman. …
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Lifting Boats Not Closing Gaps: Child Health Outcomes in Distressed Cities 1992-2002Objectives. We compared cause-specific mortality and birth rates for children and youths aged younger than 18 years in 100 US cities from 1992 through 2002. Methods. We used 5 census indicators to categorize the 100 most populous US cities in 1990 as …
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Disaster in Context: The Effects of 9/11 on Youth Distant from the AttacksAlthough an increasing amount of community mental health research has investigated the deleterious effects of disasters and the targeting and efficacy of treatment in their aftermath, little research has sought to identify preexisting characteristics of …
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Understanding the Political Context of "New " Policy Issues: The Use of the Advocacy Coalition Framework in the Case of Expanded After-School ProgramsThis article uses the Advocacy Coalition Framework to identify the stakeholders and their coalitions in the arena of after-school policy, which drew much new attention beginning in the early 1990s in many American cities. Using evidence from case studies …
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Does the Racial Composition of the School Environment Influence Children's Body Mass Index?Purpose This study investigates the degree to which the racial composition of the school environment may influence the body mass index (BMI) of children aged 10 to 18 years. This research may be viewed as extending prior work that has found that the …
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The Pros and Cons of Comprehensive Community Initiatives at the City Level: The Case of the Urban Health InitiativeSilver D and BC Weitzman. …
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If you build it, will they come? Estimating unmet demand for after-school programs in America’s distressed citiesTelephone-survey data were gathered from parents and youth in five of America’s largest and most distressed cities to estimate unmet demand for after-school programs. Unmet demand was conceptualized as a function of low utilization and dissatisfaction …
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Psychological mediating factors in an intervention to promote adolescent health care-seekingSome of the highest rates of curable sexually transmitted diseases in the USA are found among adolescents. Routine, comprehensive health care that includes a sexual history may contribute to alleviating this problem. We designed and ran a three-session …
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A Community Based Intervention to Increase Preventive Health Care Seeking in Adolescents: The Gonorrhea Community Action ProjectObjectives. We evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention designed to increase preventive health care seeking among adolescents. Methods. Adolescents and young adults aged 12 to 21 years, recruited from community-based organizations in 2 different …
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Evaluating the Impact of the Virtual Classroom ProgramEk Kadam Aur, Hindi for “One Step Ahead,” is a nonprofit organization that works to help underprivileged children lead successful and productive lives, with a particular focus on health and education. One primary initiative of Ek Kadam Aur is a virtual …