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Located in the heart of New York City, one of the world's most diverse cities, the Wagner School offers students a firsthand perspective on the challenges and opportunities in urban public service. Wagner's full-time faculty members are award-winning scholars, proactive teachers, and influential leaders in their fields. Our adjunct faculty members are expert practitioners in an array of public service organizations and bring lessons learned through their careers into the classroom. Students can also build connections with our large network of alumni who hold leadership roles in public service. In addition, full- and part-time students from across the United States and more than 40 countries bring a range of perspectives informed by their diverse cultural and professional backgrounds.
Programs of study and degree requirements
MPA in Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy
The Master of Public Administration in Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy (PNP) educates professionals committed to public service, in any sector. The curriculum is designed to expose students to multiple contexts and perspectives, with a particular emphasis on integrations: of disciplines, sectors and the classroom with professional practice. Unlike more narrowly defined programs, this breadth permits students to tailor their Wagner experience to their specific goals.
MPA in Health Policy and Management
Ranked #1 in Health Policy and Management by US News and World Report
The Master of Public Administration in Health Policy and Management provides students with the cutting-edge concepts and skills needed to shape the future of health policy and management. Led by one of the strongest faculties in health policy and management, and housing an extensive array of health services research, the program has been recognized as one of the best in the country. Wagner health students are prepared to manage a wide array of health care programs and craft thoughtful, forward-thinking health policy.
Master of Urban Planning
Ranked #4 in City Management and Urban Policy by US News and World Report
Housed within a school of public service, rather than a school of architecture, the Master of Urban Planning (MUP) program not only provides students with an understanding of the economic, technological and social forces that shape metropolitan areas at home and abroad, it also equips them with the tools needed to confront the key challenges facing urban communities across the globe. “In the twenty-first century, New York is the place to study planning, and the Wagner School’s approach to planning combines skills in policy and finance with direct exposure to waterfront planning, housing and community development, managing development projects and analyzing the effects of new urban infrastructure,” says Professor Mitchell Moss, Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Planning. “Urban Planning at NYU Wagner brings students into direct contact with the critical urban challenges of our era.”
Wagner MUP students are prepared to manage a wide array of urban planning programs and to analyze and craft thoughtful development policy. They can be found playing significant roles as planners, policy analysts, project managers, program officer and researchers in government agencies, nonprofits, consulting firms and private organizations.
Master of Science in Management
Ranked #9 in Public Management by US News and World Report
The Master of Science in Management is designed to serve the educational needs of mid-career professionals who seek to advance to positions of greater leadership or wish to be more effective in their current positions of responsibility. Many degree candidates already have advanced professional credentials in medicine, social work, law, accounting, nursing, and engineering. Other participants have at least five years of managerial experience in the public, nonprofit and health sectors. The MS program is designed to give students advanced competency in management and financial management. The strength of the MS program is the flexibility of the curriculum. With the help of a faculty advisor, students choose their courses from throughout Wagner, as well as from the large menu of courses offered by other NYU graduate schools.
Doctoral Program
The Doctoral Program at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service is designed to provide students with the theoretical and methodological training needed to perform original research in public policy, management or finance. Many students will specialize in a substantive area such as health, urban policy, non-profits, welfare, education, or international development. Doctoral students are encouraged to design a plan of study that draws from several disciplines and to take advantage of course offerings at Wagner and NYU's other graduate schools. The program emphasizes teaching and research experience and provides many opportunities for students to become active in the classroom as teaching colleagues and lecturers and/or to participate in research projects with individual faculty or through our affiliated research centers.
The program prepares graduates for careers at academic institutions, in think tanks, research firms, and research units of public, quasi-public and private organizations, as well as for other positions with substantial responsibilities for the supervision and administration of research.
Expenses and Aid
Costs:
Tuition at the Wagner School is based on a per credit basis. For the academic year, tuition is currently $798 per credit and registration fees at $290 for the first credit and $53 for each additional credit.
Housing
Housing costs (on/off campus) are estimated at $17,082.
Financial Aid
Attending graduate school is an investment in your future and a serious commitment of time and money. There are many ways students can fund an NYU education and we strongly encourage you to seek out all possibilities. Federal and private loans, federal work-study, merit scholarships, assistantships, and employment are some of the opportunities available to both full-time and part-time students to assist in the completion of NYU Wagner degree.
How to Apply / Application
Admission to the Wagner School is open to all qualified women and men who hold a bachelor's degree or its equivalent from an accredited undergraduate institution or a first professional degree from an accredited professional school. No specific undergraduate course prerequisites or fields of concentration are required.
The admission process is designed to review the overall potential of applicants in order to determine which students will succeed in their studies. Read more about our admissions criteria under Masters Programs, Doctoral Programs, and Non-degree & Certificate Programs.
Who to contact
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Office of Enrollment and Student Services
295 Lafayette Street, Second Floor
New York, NY 10012-9604Tel. (212) 998-7414
E-mail: wagner.admissions@nyu.edu
Web: www.nyu.edu/wagner
Faculty and Major Research Interests
Robert Berne, Senior Vice President for Health and professor of Public Policy and Financial Management, specializes in public sector financial management and is a nationally recognized expert in educational policy research. His research focuses on financial issues, including the assessment of equity in school finance and the measurement of financial condition.
John Billings, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Public Service and Director of the Center for Health and Public Service Research, teaches in the area of health policy. He is principal investigator on numerous projects to assess the performance of the safety net for vulnerable populations and to understand the nature and extent of barriers to optimal health for vulnerable populations. Much of his work has involved analysis of patterns of hospital admission and emergency room visits as a mechanism to evaluate access barriers to outpatient care and to assess the performance of the ambulatory care delivery system. He has also examined the characteristics of high cost Medicaid patients in to help in designing interventions to improve care and outcomes for these patients. As a founding member of the Foundation for Informed Decision Making, Professor Billings is helping to provide patients with a clearer mechanism for understanding and making informed decisions about a variety of available treatments. Professor Billings received his J.D. from the University of California (Berkeley).
Jan Blustein, Associate Professor of Health Policy (and Associate Professor of Medicine), teaches courses in statistics, program evaluation, and research methods. Her own research focuses on the dynamics underlying differences in health and health care among older Americans with chronic illnesses. Professor Blustein has been the principal investigator in studies of the impact of cardiac service availability on service use, and on the relationship between the Medicare benefit and health service equity. She recently completed a study of health and health care among grandparents who are raising their grandchildren, and is now working on an evaluation of a national initiative to improve inpatient and post-discharge cardiac care in hospitals that disproportionately serve minority Americans. Her work has been published in Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and other leading journals. She serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Professor Blustein holds an M.D. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the Wagner School.
Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D., is Professor of Public Service, Health Policy and Management at the Wagner School, and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at New York University Medical School. She served as Dean of the Wagner School from June 1, 1997–November 1, 2002. Prior to coming to Wagner, Dr. Boufford served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from November 1993 to January 1997, and as Acting Assistant Secretary from January 1997 to May 1997. While at HHS, she also served as the U.S. representative on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO). From May 1991 to September 1993, Dr. Boufford served as Director of the King's Fund College, London England. Dr. Boufford served as President of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), the largest municipal hospital system in the United States, from December 1985 until October 1989. She serves on the Boards of the New York Academy of Medicine, the United Hospital Fund, the Primary Care Development Corporation, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the Center for Health Care Strategies, Project HOPE and the International Womens’ Health Coalition. She was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine in 1992 and serves on its Executive Council and Board on Global Health. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from the State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY in May 1992. She received her B.A. (Psychology) magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, and her M.D., with distinction, from the University of Michigan Medical School. She is Board Certified in pediatrics.
Charles Brecher, Professor of Public and Health Administration, teaches courses in public policy formation and analysis in health policy. His most recent books are Power Failure: New York City Politics and Policy Since 1960, a study of local political change, and Privatization and Public Hospitals: Choosing Wisely for New York City. He serves as Research Director for the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan civic organization devoted to improving financial management and service delivery by the City of New York and the State of New York. He is also leading the fiscal component of the Wagner School's multi-year evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative. He is a member of the board of the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy in Albany. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the City University of New York.
Ingrid Gould Ellen, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning, joined the Wagner faculty in the fall of 1997 and presently teaches courses in microeconomics, urban economics, and urban policy. Professor Ellen's research interests center on urban social and economic policy, with a particular focus on housing and community development. She is author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration (Harvard University Press, 2000) and has been published in such journals as Urban Studies, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Housing Policy Debate, and the Journal of Housing Research. Professor Ellen is currently studying how affordable housing investment influences development in surrounding neighborhoods, using longitudinal data from New York City. She is also analyzing segregation and racial disparities in the New York City public schools and undertaking a national study of changes in residential integration during the 1990s. Before coming to NYU, Dr. Ellen held visiting positions at the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, served as a research analyst at Abt Associates, and worked at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Dr. Ellen received a B.A. in applied mathematics, an M.P.P., and a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.
Steven A. Finkler, Professor of Public and Health Administration, Accounting, and Financial Management, teaches financial management and specializes in health care accounting. Professor Finkler has written sixteen books. He has also written more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and over 130 book chapters and other articles and published reports. Professor Finkler is the former editor of the monthly Hospital Cost Management and Accounting and is a member of the editorial boards of Research in Healthcare Financial Management and Health Care Management Review .Professor Finkler is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Research in Healthcare Financial Management and the Finance Committee of the Association of University Programs of Health Administration. He is a member of the Board of Governors and is the Treasurer of the Daughters of Israel Geriatric Center. He served as a member of the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research at the NIH from 1997-2001. Professor Finkler received the prestigious Pioneering Spirit Award from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses in 2002, and the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Research Award in 2003. He has won several teaching awards, including the 1999 NYU Distinguished Teaching Medal. Professor Finkler was a member of the Wharton School faculty at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to NYU. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Stanford University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Anthony R. Kovner, Professor of Public and Health Management, teaches management. An organizational theorist by training, his research interests include health services management and governance. He has been a senior manager in two hospitals, a nursing home, a group practice, and a neighborhood health center, as well as a senior health care consultant for a large industrial union. Professor Kovner has written numerous articles on health services management, hospital governance, health regulation, and hospital budgeting, as well as several books, including Health Care Management in Mind: Eight Careers (Springer, 2000) and Health Care Delivery in the United States 7th edition, coeditor, (Springer 2002). In addition, he has been a consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Montefiore Medical Center, and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. He is a board member of the Lutheran Medical Center, a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and is the director of Wagner school's program of health policy and management. Professor Kovner received his Ph.D. in public administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
Roger Kropf, Professor of Health Management, teaches courses on management and information systems for health services organizations. He is also co-instructor for the capstone course in health management and finance. He received his doctorate from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. One of his principal interests is in helping health care professionals to use management information systems to achieve their organization’s goals and objectives. This is the major subject of his books—Service Excellence in Health Care Through the Use of Computers (American College of Healthcare Executives, 1990) and Strategic Analysis for Hospital Management (with James Greenberg, Aspen Systems, 1984). His most recent book is After E-Mail: New Internet Tools That Can Save Time and Improve Your Performance (New York: YBK Publishers, 2001). His current research concerns the use of technology to help teams perform more effectively, and to support collaboration and communications. This is described more fully at his Web site, (www.nyu.edu/classes/kropf).
Mitchell L. Moss, Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, teaches and does research on planning and urban politics, with special emphasis on economic development, telecommunications, and the governance of New York City. From 1988 to 2004, Professor Moss served as Director of the Taub Urban Research Center and from 2002-2004, he was Director of NYU’s Urban Planning Program. He has recently completed a study of the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan for the Russell Sage Foundation. Professor Moss’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, the New York Daily News, New York Newsday, The New York Post, and The New York Observer. Professor Moss was voted “Professor the Year” by NYU Wagner students in 2002 and in 2003, he was awarded the American Planning Association’s NY Metro Chapter’s Robert Ponte Award for his contribution to the vitality of the New York Area. He is an honorary member of the League of Women Voters of the City of New York.
Professor Netzer has worked in urban public finance and urban economics as a researcher, teacher, consultant, and public official for more than forty years. He is the author of Economics of the Property Tax (Brookings, 1966), Economics and Urban Problems (Basic Books, 1974), and The Subsidized Muse (Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1978) and principal author of "Financing Government in New York City". In addition, he is the author or coauthor of more than 200 articles, papers, and book chapters, and is a nationally recognized expert in the economics of property taxation. From 1969 through 1982, Professor Netzer served as the dean of the Wagner School and was the founding director of the Taub Urban Research Center. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Citizen's Union Foundation. Professor Netzer received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
Katherine O’Regan is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and spent ten years teaching at the Yale School of Management prior to joining the Wagner faculty in 2000. She teaches courses in microeconomics and policy evaluation, urban economics and public finance. Professor O’Regan’s research focuses on issues and programs affecting the urban poor and minorities, including transportation, employment, and isolation problems, and issues of good governance and partnerships for nonprofits. She is currently researching governance practices of New York city nonprofits and is part of a Wagner team examining the educational experience of immigrants in New York City Public Schools. Among others, she serves on the advisory board for the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, and the research advisory board for the National Center for Nonprofit Enterprise.
Sonia Ospina is Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy and Co-Director of the Research Center for Leadership in Action. She has taught qualitative research methods, the theoretical foundations of applied research, public management, women in management and human resources. Her research focuses on governance and collaboration, community participation and leadership and public management reform, both in the US and in Latin America. She currently directs a Ford Foundation sponsored multi-year, national research project on community leadership for social change in the United States. Her 1996 book Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Work Place Inequality (Cornell University Press) explores how public employees make meaning out of the experience of inequality and the implications for organization and management. Her co-edited books on public management reform in Latin America (2003 and 2004) focus on the changing relations of accountability given large-scale reform in the region. Professor Ospina earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and a Masters in Public Policy and Management from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Victor G. Rodwin, Professor of Health Policy and Management, teaches courses on community health and medical care, comparative analysis of health care systems and international perspectives on health care reform. Professor Rodwin is the recipient of a three-year Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Investigator Award on "Megacities and Health: New York, London, Paris and Tokyo." He is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Health Planning Predicament: France, Quebec, England, and the United States (University of California, 1984); The End of an Illusion: The Future of Health Policy in Western Industrialized Nations (with J. de Kervasdoué and J. Kimberly, University of California, 1984); Public Hospitals in New York and Paris (with C. Brecher, D. Jolly, and R. Baxter), New York University Press, 1992); and Japan's Universal and Affordable Health Care: Lessons for the U.S.? (Japan Society, 1994). His most recent book (edited with Michael Gusmano), Growing Older in Four World Cities: New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, will be published by Vanderbilt University Press. Recent journal articles have appeared in Journal of Urban Health, Indicators, and the American Journal of Public Health. Professor Rodwin directs the World Cities Project, a collaborative venture between the Wagner School and the International Longevity Center-USA, which examines the impact of population aging and longevity on New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo. He has consulted with the World Bank, the UN, the French National Health Insurance Fund and other international organizations. Professor Rodwin earned his Ph.D. in city and regional planning, and his MPH in public health, at the University of California at Berkeley.
Dean Ellen Schall joined the NYU Wagner faculty in 1992 as the Martin Cherkasky Professor of Health Policy and Management. Soon afterward, the Annie E. Casey Foundation asked her to help design its leadership development program for mid-career professionals. She and her faculty colleague Sonia Ospina cultivated a partnership with the Ford Foundation which led to the establishment of the Research Center for Leadership Development, a permanent research center at Wagner. In 2002, the Wagner faculty unanimously recommended that NYU’s President John Sexton appoint Schall Dean.
Schall’s accomplishments since assuming the deanship include: uniting the entire NYU Wagner faculty and staff under one roof in the historic Puck Building; increasing Wagner’s visibility within NYU and among its institutional peers; building a strong student experience through innovative programming; providing lifelong learning opportunities to alumni; and spearheading the Catherine B. Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship.
Dean Schall’s achievements are not limited to city government and academic arenas, but range from service as president of a health education nonprofit to active involvement on the University Settlement Board of Directors. Her legacy is one of helping to transform organizations by encouraging others to step up to their own leadership potential. In her position as Dean of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, she is poised to grow Wagner into the flagship school of public service education and research by creating enterprising models of public service education, advancing original concepts of leadership development, and inspiring the next generation of public service professionals. Dean Schall received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and J.D. (cum laude) from NYU School of Law.
Professor Schwartz, Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics, teaches public economics, finance, and policy at the Wagner School and The Steinhardt School of Education. Her research is primarily in applied econometrics, focusing on state and local governments and urban policy, particularly education policy and finance. Ongoing projects in K12 education focus on the education of immigrant children in New York City; the disparities in test scores across racial and ethnic groups; and the measurement of school performance and the distinction between ‘good schools’ and ‘good students. A current project in housing research investigates the impact of subsidized housing on property values and economic development. Her work in higher education focuses on the cost of college, including both four year and two year colleges in the U.S. Previous research has evaluated the role of public infrastructure in determining state output, growth, and employment, and other issues in public finance. Professor Schwartz's research has been published in the American Economic Review, The Journal of Human Resources, National Tax Journal, and Journal of Public Economics. In addition, Professor Schwartz has consulted on various issues of economic and tax policy for non-profit organizations and governments. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Education Finance Association. Professor Schwartz received her Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
Dennis C. Smith, Associate Professor of Public Policy, teaches policy formation and program evaluation, Comparative Federalism, and the International Capstone. Professor Smith has conducted research on the performance management of public and nonprofit agencies, and has written on the problems of measuring the success of reforms in public sector organizations. He has also studied the non-emergency use of New York City's ambulance service (EMS) and has written on strategies for managing the demand for emergency services. Professor Smith's work has been published in several journals, including Public Administration Review, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Public Administration and Development, and City Journal. His analysis of Compstat, written with former NYPD Commissioner William Bratton, appeared in Forsythe, ed., Quicker, Better, Cheaper? Managing Performance in American Government (2001). His “Managing CIVPOL:The Potential of Performance Management in International Public Service” is a chapter in Dijkzeul and Beigbeder, ed., Rethinking International Organizations: Pathology and Promise (2003).
Roy Sparrow, Professor of Public Management, has been a member of the Wagner faculty since 1973. He received his BA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served as acting Dean and Associate Dean of the Wagner School and from 1995-2000 headed the management program at Wagner. Currently he co-directs the Program in Nonprofit Management and Judaic Studies. He specializes in public transportation policy and management with a particularly interest in strategic change in organizations that design and deliver urban infrastructure services. He teaches four courses at Wagner: Managing Public Service Organizations, Strategic Management, Developing Management Skills, and the Seminar on Jewish Communal Organization and Management (the Taub Seminar).
Walter Stafford, Professor of Public Policy and Planning, teaches courses on public policy, economic development, human rights, and race and class. His research also focuses on race relations, race and planning, labor markets, gender issues, and economic development. His most recent publications include Race, Gender and Welfare Reform: The Need for Targeted Support(State of Black America 2003), Women of Color in New York City: Still Invisible in Policy. Previously, Professor Stafford worked in the U.S. Senate, the National Urban League, and was a senior researcher with the Community Service Society of New York. Professor Stafford earned his Ph.D. in public and international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.
Ruth Ann Stewart joined the Wagner School faculty in September 2003 with a specialization in cultural policy and the role of the arts in urban revitalization. She formerly taught at Rutgers University's Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy where she was also affiliated with the Center for Urban Policy Research. Prior to joining the academy, Professor Stewart was an associate director and the senior policy analyst in arts, humanities, and social legislation at the Congressional Research Service, the research and analysis arm of the U.S. Congress. Daniel J. Boorstin appointed her Assistant Librarian of Congress with responsibility for the library’s education and cultural programs after senior management positions in New York at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and The New York Public Library. Professor Stewart is a member of the Research Advisory Council of the Washington-based cultural policy think tank, the Center for Arts and Culture, and founding co-editor of the Rutgers University Press cultural policy series, The Public Life of the Arts. Professor Stewart received an M.S. degree from Columbia University, and completed the Harvard Business School arts management program and the senior government executive program at the Kennedy School of Government.
Leanna Stiefel, Professor of Economics, teaches courses in multiple regression, economics of education and microeconomics. Her areas of expertise are school finance and education policy, applied economics and applied statistics. Some of her current and recent research projects include: patterns of resource allocation in large city schools; costs of small high schools in New York City; effects of school organization on student achievement; racial test score gaps; measurement of efficiency and productivity in public schools; and segregation, resource use and achievement of immigrant school children. She is author of Statistical Analysis for Public and Non-Profit Managers (1990) and co-author of Measuring School Performance and Efficiency: Implications for Practice and Research (2005) as well as The Measurement of Equity in School Finance (1984), and her work appears in journals and edited books. She is past president of the American Education Finance Association, a member of the National Center of Education Statistics Technical Planning Panel (US Department of Education), on the policy council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), and a governor on the New York State Education Finance Research Consortium. She has been a consultant for organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the Education Commission of the States, the New York ACLU, and the Campaign for Fiscal Equity. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1972), her AB degree with high honors from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1967), and holds an Advanced Professional Certificate in Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business (1984).
Beth C. Weitzman, Professor of Health and Public Policy, joined the faculty of New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in 1987. She teaches classes in statistics and community health and medical care. Her research interests focus on urban policies affecting poor families: Dr. Weitzman has evaluated a range of program aimed at meeting the health, social service, housing, and educational needs of these families. Dr. Weitzman has been directing the national evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative since its inception in 1995. Past research includes a study, funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, to examine the relationship of school absenteeism to survey-based estimates of adolescent risk behavior, and a longitudinal study of homeless families funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. In recent years, Dr. Weitzman's work has been published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, the Journal of Urban Health, the American Journal of Evaluation, the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, and the American Journal of Public Health. Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Prof. Weitzman worked both as a researcher for the New York City Board of Education and as an evaluation consultant. She holds a B.A. from Vassar College and an M.P.A. and Ph.D. from NYU.
Rae Zimmerman is Professor of Planning and Public Administration at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and since 1998, Director of the Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS), a multi-university National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded center for collaborative, interdisciplinary activities on infrastructure research, education, and outreach. She leads ICIS’ partnership in the U.S. DHS-funded Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Modeling of Terrorism Events with the University of Southern California, where her work focuses on critical infrastructure. She authored Governmental Management of Chemical Risk (Lewis/CRC), co-produced Beyond September 11th (Boulder, CO, University of Colorado, 2003), and is a co-editor of Digital Infrastructures (Routledge 2004) and Sustaining Urban Networks (Routledge, 2004).