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Hurricanes, COVID-19 and the Power of Collective Action

… virus. In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, the city of New Orleans was a ghost town: houses gutted, streets without power, debris stretching for miles. Seventy percent of the city was underwater. But in one neighborhood in New Orleans East, a Vietnamese-American stronghold, people were returning by the thousands, … and food supplies. They built their neighborhood back faster and better than any other New Orleans neighborhood. They fought off a planned wastewater plant in their community, scoring …

Diwali: Public Health Challenges of Holidays

… evil” depends in part on geography. For instance, families in Gujarat (where I come from) buy new clothes and shoes, clean their homes and make intricate circular patterns with colored … ( Navratri ) of dancing, and people pray to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, for a prosperous new year.   Pictured: Rangoli made by Niyati's daughters with lentils and beans.   However, in my …

GPH Staff Spotlight: Andrea Muraca

… with Julie. We are really like a family. Working in student affairs continually offers new challenges and requires new strategies and ideas to deal with these challenges. In the corner of my office, I have two … years and the challenges that refugees have to face, often alone, scared and traumatized in a new country. Favorite movie of all time? I can't pick between these three: Jaws (1975), Jurassic …

Dr. Rumi Chunara Named Distinguished Member of Association for Computing Machinery

… contributions to robust health AI through data science. "We see the annual announcement of a new class of Distinguished Members as one of our most important events and an excellent way to … institutions in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Germany, India, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The ACM …

Virginia W Chang

… of the Inteflex Program at the University of Michigan, where she received her BS and MD degrees.  She then completed a residency in internal medicine, fellowship training with the …

Research Projects

… students will learn longitudinal statistical methods and gain hand-on experience in data management, data exploration, growth curve analysis, as well as growth mixture analysis. By the …

Dispatch from the Road: Ethiopia

… full of adventure! Yesim Tozan, PhD Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management

Cross Continental Experience Blog: Finally Learning Spanish

… me (and others) an opportunity to practice listening to people from Buenos Aires and to learn new words about specific industries and themes (including public health terminology). Recently, … to follow at our Spanish level – it was super entertaining and helpful for learning slang and new words ( pictured below ). And we’ve all been sharing anything and everything that involves Spanish like new-to-us Argentinian musicians, Spanish-speaking shows on Netflix, and Spanish podcasts.   …

Fisher Inversion, Repro Samples Method and Principled Random Forests

… single and ensemble tree methods. Fisher inversion and repro samples method can provide us a new toolset for developing interpretable AI and for helping address the blackbox issues in … the Speaker: Min-ge Xie, PhD is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Dr. Xie received his PhD in Statistics from University of Illinois at …

NYU GPH Awarded the 2024 Community Partner Award

… “The partnership was established [in 2014] with a clear mission: to develop and evaluate new public health interventions, create practical learning opportunities, and share resources to … to the development of a 15-credit Advanced Certificate in Health and Human Rights and three new courses derived from HealthRight’s fieldwork. Field-based research conducted with NYU … has created a dynamic space for innovation. By combining the expertise of academia and NGOs, new tools, technologies, and strategies for social good have been co-created, driving forward the …