Jan Blustein: Tackling Hearing Loss to Improve Care of Older Adults
Professor Jan Blustein’s newest research focuses on hearing loss and its consequences for health and quality of life for older Americans.
WAGTalk: Paul Smoke, "Supporting Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries"
Development assistance for strengthening government in developing countries has been criticized both as being too fragmented and too dominated by a cartel of like-minded agencies.
WAGTalk: Sherry Glied, "Why Your Broken Rib Costs You an Arm and a Leg"
Why is healthcare in the US so expensive compared to care provided in other countries with similar or better outcomes? Dean Glied's talk will examine the evidence on this paradox and describe the implications of these findings for health policy.
WAGTalk: Leanna Stiefel, "Improving Urban K-12 Education: Policy in a World without Magic, Disruptive Bullets"
Although there is widespread agreement that the American K-12 education system needs improvement, none of the "magic bullet" solutions put forth during the last several decades has made huge changes.
NYU Wagner Capstone Team works with alumna to improve education in Nicaragua coffee fields
NYU Wagner alumna Kristin Van Busum founded Project Alianza, which provides educational opportunities for children at risk of child labor in rural coffee communities, and she enlisted a Capstone team to help figure out how to expand the organization's reach.
