Public Education in the Dynamic City: Lessons from New York City

Redefining public health in New York City.

“If you want to live longer and healthier than the average American, come to New York City”, pronounced New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg as he released updated data on the city’s life expectancy last December. The numbers gave him reason to crow: from a nadir in 1990, when life expectancy in the city trailed the US average by 3 years, it had lengthened by 8 years to 80·6 years, surpassin...

Obesity Prevention in a City State: Lessons from New York City during the Bloomberg Administration

OBJECTIVE To illuminate the key components of multi-sector reform to address the obesogenic environment in New York City during the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg from 2002 to 2013, we conducted a case study consisting of interviews with and a critical analysis of the experiences of leading decision makers and implementers. METHOD Key informant interviews (N = 41) conducted in 2014...

Diabetes in New York City.

Syndromic surveillance in public health practice, New York City.

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has established a syndromic surveillance system that monitors emergency department visits to detect disease outbreaks early. Routinely collected chief complaint information is transmitted electronically to the health department daily and analyzed for temporal and spatial aberrations. Respiratory, fever, diarrhea, and vomiting are the key...

Projecting K-5 Enrollment in New York City Public Schools

We sought to use machine learning algorithms to predict K-5 school enrollment counts across census tracts and across years within Community District 20 in New York City. We used census data and historical counts as our input, and output enrollment count predictions for grades, census tracts and future years.