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Keeping New Jerseyans Safe: Q&A with N.J. Department of Health’s Henri Hammond-Paul MPA ’19

Early this year, experts within the New Jersey Department of Health began reviewing social media posts emerging out of China’s Hubei province, launching careful daily monitoring of the progress of the Covid-19 outbreak. On March 18 and 21, respectively, Governor Phil Murphy ordered schools to close and residents to stay home. …

Politics & Polls #181: Health Care and Covid-19 Featuring Dr. Richard Besser

Health care is deeply intertwined with public policy, especially now as the world grapples with containing Covid-19. This battle is not only being fought on the government level, but also in hospitals and laboratories as scientists search for a cure.Today’s guest, Dr. Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson…

Innovations for Successful Societies Helps U.N. With Covid-19 Response and Provides Insights from Ebola Outbreak

Innovations for Successful Societies (ISS), a research program at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is working with the United Nations Development Programme to help countries hone their Covid-19 response systems.The project brings together two strands of research: organizing…

Macrofinance Lab Receives National Science Foundation Funding

Funding from the National Science Foundation will support the work of a Macrofinance Lab at the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance (JRCPPF), which is based at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.The project will develop an open-source textbook and data-sharing…

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Mentoring Programs Help Female Economists Secure Tenure-Track Positions

There remains a dearth of women in economics, with far fewer females securing tenure-track jobs and publishing academic research than men. Past research points to several barriers contributing to this “leaky pipeline” including: access to mentoring, social networks, and implicit biases.Many groups, including the American…

Julian Zelizer

Zelizer Named Member of Biographers International Organization

Julian E. Zelizer was elected a member of the distinguished Biographers International Organization, a nonprofit organization that provides educational opportunities to biographers and promotes charitable activities in the field of biography.“It is a true honor to join this great organization and to become part of a community of…

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Melissa Lee

WWS Reacts: How Developing Countries Might Grapple with Covid-19

Covid-19 is present in rich and poorer countries alike, but the looming crisis in developing countries — where dense, vulnerable populations make social distancing nearly impossible and access to clean water and health care resources are often scarce — is far more dire, threatening unprecedented mortality rates, economic…

Melissa Lee

Politics & Polls #180: Fixing Bugs in Democracy Featuring Katie Fahey

Aiming to "fix the bugs in our democracy," a people-powered activism movement has taken hold since the 2016 election. Those who are part of this wave are tackling difficult issues like gerrymandering, voting rights, and fairness in democracy through grassroots efforts.Today's guest is an experienced leader in this area. Katie…

Kathryn Edin

Universal Childhood Allowance Could Reduce Childhood Poverty, Edin Testifies

Today, about 15 million children in the United States live in families with incomes below the federal poverty threshold. This is why reducing childhood poverty is a top priority for some U.S. lawmakers, who are trying to identify the most effective ways to reverse course of this troubling trend. On March 3, the House…

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