COVID-19 – Initiative for Critical Disaster Studies

Public Books and the NYU Cities Collaborative publish “Crisis Cities”

November 24, 2020 November 24, 2020 By Jacob Remes

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,

Report calls for research on public health emergency preparedness

November 20, 2020 November 12, 2020 By Brenda Talbot

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,

Nearly a quarter of NYC transit workers report having had Covid-19

November 20, 2020 October 20, 2020 By Jacob Remes

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