Category: Research News
New Ideas in Climate Change and Critical Disaster Studies
To celebrate the founding of the Initiative for Critical Disaster Studies, we have invited three thinkers, organizers, and activists to share their New Ideas in Climate Change and Critical Disaster Studies. Please join us for three lectures. February 26, 12:30 Eastern time “Building the Bridge to Recovery: How Workers Can Lead on Climate Justice” John Cartwright, president of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council Too often, workers and their communities bear the brunt of the displacement, dislocation,
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Public Books and the NYU Cities Collaborative publish “Crisis Cities”
NYU Urban Initiative co-director Thomas Sugrue has edited Crisis Cities, a public symposium on the 2020 crises and their impact on urban life, a partnership of the NYU Cities Collaborative and Public Books. In his introduction to the series, Sugrue writes, Just as COVID-19 is particularly dangerous to populations with preexisting conditions, the virus has ferociously swept through urban areas because of their preexisting social conditions: the precarity of work; the unaffordability of housing; the depth of racial,
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Grant to develop, implement, and evaluate the Disaster Nursing Project
Theresa Bucco of NYU’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing has received a grant from Center for Faculty Advancement at NYU. The Curricular Development Challenge Fund was established to assist the development, expansion, review, or redirection of academic programs and courses at New York University. The CDCF grant will support the development, implementation, and evaluation of “The Disaster Nursing Project” which will be an innovative, immersive initiative within the required Community Health Course (UG 1244) using simulation. The purpose
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Report calls for research on public health emergency preparedness
Research and funding priorities tend to shift from one disaster to the next, which has resulted in a sparse evidence base and hampers the nation’s ability to respond to public health emergencies in the most effective way, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report is co-authored by David Abramson, PhD, clinical associate professor at NYU School of Global Public Health and the director of the research center on Population Impact,
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Nearly a quarter of NYC transit workers report having had Covid-19
A survey of New York City’s bus and subway workers finds that 24 percent report having contracted COVID-19 and 90 percent fear getting sick at work. The pilot study, conducted by researchers at NYU School of Global Public Health, in coordination with the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, helps document the toll the pandemic has taken on the physical and mental health of essential workers. As New York City became an early U.S. epicenter of the COVID-19
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