Increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion in policy research
Earlier this month, we announced a new funding opportunity to support six early-career researchers from underrepresented and historically disadvantaged backgrounds. Researchers will be awarded up to $250,000 each to help us understand and find solutions that promote health equity and foster action on policies and laws that can help us build a Culture of Health.
Letters of intent are due Wednesday, October 2, 2019, at 3:00 p.m. (EDT). We invite interested researchers to attend a free informational webinar on Wednesday, September 4, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. (EDT). Registration is required.
This summer, both CityLab and New York magazine reported on a landmark gentrification study conducted by our Research Hub at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Their working paper
reveals scant evidence that gentrification is associated with elevated displacement of low-income families, and those who do move are not moving to worse neighborhoods as measured by poverty rate or crime.
Here’s an excerpt taken from the New York article:
The studies make it clear that the simple narratives of gentrification’s evil don’t hold up. A neighborhood is not a filled and stoppered bathtub, where for every drop that flows in, another must slosh out. It’s more like a wet sponge, with residents draining away and evaporating all the time, newcomers passing through or settling in, finding whatever crannies seem hospitable at any given time.
Can we create a culture that values diversity of ideas, beliefs, and practices while fostering empathy, compassion, and community? Evidence for Action is proposing a panel for SXSW 2020 to answer this and other important questions.
P4A researcher Laura Wherry is out with new research that suggests that 15,600 additional deaths would have been averted had Medicaid expansion been adopted nationwide.
P4A researcher Jennifer Karas Montez was awarded the 2019 Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award by the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science.
