Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I e-talked with Anne Lusk about this, she is a researcher at Harvard School of Public Health, and wrote her dissertation on the community aspects of multi-use trails. In general, walkers appeared more atomized and rushed in 2010 than they had a generation before.

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The City Fix

MAY 8, 2024

Mexico became the first nation to declare access to safe mobility a human right in 2020 and two years later passed the General Law of Mobility and Road Safety to protect people, reduce collisions and promote sustainable modes of travel. Now, with this new.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, cities found themselves on the frontlines of the battle against a new and fast-spreading virus that soon became a global pandemic. Even as some places reacted with smart and swift responses that allowed for a partial return to normalcy, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Returned mail A critical focus of the public health emergency (PHE) unwinding is the challenge Medicaid agencies may face with regards to returned mail. Consider another example scenario: Ira, a current Medicaid enrollee, was enrolled in June 2020 due to job loss, but he has since moved multiple times. Scenario 3.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 18, 2023

After more than three years, the federal government is asking agencies to bring employees back to the office — but is still allowing the option of telework when it improves an agency’s operational health. The public health emergency was declared on Jan.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 25, 2022

COVID-19 has spotlighted the deep racial inequities in housing and illustrated the importance of housing stability to protecting public health. ANDP Single-Family Developments Shaded by LMI Census Tracts, January 2010 – June 30, 2020. Source: Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership.

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GovLoop

JUNE 12, 2023

Problem statement: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) ability to gather and gain insights from public health data was hindered by wide variability in how that data was being managed at the state and local levels. Daniel Jernigan, Deputy Director for Public Health Science and Surveillance at CDC.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 18, 2023

Vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties—sometimes called “ blighted ” properties—harm public health, lower surrounding property values, drain municipal resources, and overall hurt a community’s sense of stability and pride in their neighborhood. Other projects can be temporary.

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GovCast

JUNE 7, 2022

From hardware access to public health networks and responsible AI principles, the U.S. With over 25 years of international development experience primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, Chief Digital Development Officer Christopher Burns spearheaded the agency's first-ever digital strategy in 2020.

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The Lowe Down

MAY 12, 2023

Article by Derik Suria & Meghna Pamula Air pollution is a serious public health concern. Research shows significant disparities in exposure to air pollution and health outcomes among different communities by the level of income. for 2016-2020. We focus on PM2.5, or particulate matter 2.5, in the period 2006-2010.

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Reprogramming the City

MARCH 22, 2022

The result of a call for proposals put out in 2020, BART announced in early March 2022 the eight winning ideas for old subway cars. “We’d like to see them given a new life. We’d like to see them repurposed and have people continue to enjoy these cars.”. A new life for the old trains is on the way.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Of course, the bigger cities, with homelessness, a propensity for vandalism, higher usage, low investment in facilities, and lack of attendants, have a problem in maintaining quality public facilities (" The Disappearing Public Toilet ," Seton Hall Law Review , 2020). Fancy restroom" in Bryant Park, New York City.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

But it's also ironic in that my first DC job was for a public health related group, which had an alcohol policies project, and for awhile a program on Hispanic health which included a focus on tobacco consumption. I drink very little, especially now, and I don't use illegal drugs.

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Google Public Sector

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Samples from the AFIP were instrumental in solving many public health challenges, like sequencing the genome of the 1918 influenza virus. But then, in August 2020, JPC went forward with a non-competitive, non-publicly-sourced contract. During the transition, the DoD asked the U.S. The JPC, however, pursued its own process.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

s newest hospital ," Washington Post ), in a manner that combined acute care, wellness programming including addressing chronic conditions, and public health with a hospital providing acute care at the center. 2018) -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The Guardian , 5 May 2020. Murray 2020. The Guardian , 25 August 2020 - and subsequent updates. Public Health England, London, 57 pp. So where are its emergency planners? Murphy, S., Proctor and J. From face masks to Covid testing: 11 times the UK government has U-turned. Exercise Cygnus Report.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

providing high quality people spaces within a hospital complex becomes very difficult (" Penn’s new hospital belatedly recognizes pedestrian space is a public health issue "). The Teaching Kitchen Collaborative supports hospitals and public health clinics offering nutrition and cooking programming. Reading room.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)

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Government Technology Insider

JANUARY 26, 2023

Launched in 2020, the CDC’s Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) aims to enhance operations for the future of healthcare administration and delivery. Fletcher agreed, saying, “You can’t just pick it up and shift from the mainframe to the cloud. Information Security As modernization efforts progress, HHS must focus on information security.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Elizabeths I suggested this as part of a three part series on an innovative strategy for public health and wellness programming as part of building a new hospital. Medical education campus at St. Obviously it was too ambitious for DC, and maybe the biotechnology business development element is a stretch.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

In preparing for that interview, I looked at the websites for all of the city's Advisory Neighborhood Commssions (ANCs are block and neighborhood specific councils that weigh in on matters before DC government) and just a handful had transportation/public space committees. And public health. The issues are unchanging.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Although to be fair to public health departments, many do address it. I had no idea, but more people die in most cities from drug overdoses, not murders (" Drug overdoses now kill more Americans than guns ," CBS News, " Overdose Deaths Continue Rising, With Fentanyl and Meth Key Culprits ," New York Times ). Mention this a lot.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 26, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic not only posed a public health crisis but also created cyber scam opportunities for cybercriminals to exploit the vulnerable in the rapidly changing digital environment With the outbreak of the pandemic, cybercriminals quickly identified ways to exploit the public.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

The cohort is developing a range of solutions, using the power of the cloud, to improve equitable access to health, social, and aged care services; support aged care and health service providers to deliver higher quality care; and promote new and productive ways of delivering services.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

JUNE 25, 2020

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many aspects of our lives have been severely altered and restricted in the name of public health. As of April 24, 2020, there have been close to 900,000 people diagnosed with COVID-19 in America and over 50,000 COVID-19 related deaths. 8, 2020) (last visited Apr. COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 19, 2023

And the serious problems of the US public health infrastructure to respond to covid after decades of declining budgets (" COVID-19 and Underinvestment in the Public Health Infrastructure of the United States ," Milbank Quarterly , 2020). And the failure of the Trump Administration to properly respond to covid.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Low income fare discounts (" WMATA to consider lower cost/free transit pass for low income riders ," 2020) and incremental pass payment systems, which more transit agencies are starting to implement now too (" 13 Reasons Why Transit Agencies Around the World are Choosing Fare Payments-as-a-Service (FPaaS) Platforms for Fare Collection ," Masabi).

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