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Apr 15 2021 Past Event Special Briefing: State Budgeting, the COVID-19 Recession, and What Comes Next State & Local Finance

Mar 26 2021 Past Event #MUSAMasterClass featuring Dr. Paula Moraga: Disease Risk Modeling and Visualization using R Rapid Urbanization

Article March 24, 2021 Effective State and Local Leadership in the Age of COVID-19 Governor Phil Murphy was the keynote speaker at “State and Local Leadership Challenges in the Age of COVID-19,” a Livestream event on state and municipal fiscal and operational responses to COVID-19 and the latest in a series of webinars co-sponsored by Penn IUR and The Volcker Alliance. William Glasgall Michael A. Nutter Susan Wachter State & Local Finance Anchor Institutions

Mar 11 2021 Past Event State and Local Leadership Challenges in the Age of COVID-19

Feb 11 2021 Past Event Special Briefing: The COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout and the Impact on States and Municipalities

Faculty Fellow Harvey Rubin

Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Director, Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis And Response (ISTAR), University of Pennsylvania Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science Attending Physician, Good Shepherd Penn Partners

Affiliated PhD Student Tali Ziv

PhD Student, Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences

Faculty Fellow Jennifer Pinto-Martin

Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Professor of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine Faculty Fellow, Perry World House

Publication April 17, 2020 Cities and Epidemics in History Dense urban populations have fostered and accelerated epidemics since at least the Plague of Athens in the fifth century BCE, and epidemics have in turn reshaped urban spaces for almost as long. David Barnes

Publication April 17, 2020 COVID-19's Impact on Vulnerable Homeless Populations America’s cities are already experiencing a crisis of homelessness. COVID-19 is going to further stress an already overtaxed homeless assistance system. Dennis Culhane

Publication April 17, 2020 Parks and Trees are Public Health Measures My research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape history and contemporary landscape architecture in the Western World. Early park designers knew that incorporating parks and nature into cities is a public health measure with beneficial psychological and physical effects. Urban Development

Publication April 17, 2020 Informal Settlements and Pre-Emptive Actions to Win the War against COVID-19 Informal settlements are at high risk of becoming hotspots of the novel COVID-19 virus. Recent estimates show that one billion people live in informal settlements across the globe. If current trends persist, the number of people living in informal settlements is expected to increase to two billion by 2030 and three billion by 2050. James Kwame Mensah Urban Development

Publication April 17, 2020 Black Folk and COVID-19 The impact of the coronavirus on black people in the inner cities is compounded by long-standing racial disparities in the delivery of health care in the United States. Because overwhelming numbers of impoverished black people lack health insurance, they access the health-care system largely by showing up at the emergency rooms of major hospitals. Elijah Anderson

Publication April 17, 2020 Cities of the Future Will … ? As I think about how to shape Penn IUR’s Cities and Contagion initiative I propose that we parallel and document the usual three-stage pattern of recovery from disaster. These steps are 1. emergency reactions, 2. short-term relief measures, 3. longer-term responses. Our nation is now in the first and second stages; others are pursuing the other steps. Eugénie L. Birch Urban Development

Publication April 17, 2020 COVID-19's Effects on Urban Centers COVID-19 is a threat to urban centers, both in the short- and longer-run. Most immediately, the virus is doing serious economic damage to the most urbanized areas around the world. Mark Zandi Urban Development

Publication April 17, 2020 Moving from Uncertainty in a Rapidly Evolving Healthcare Crisis I like to distinguish between two kinds of risk, risk to which we can assign a probability, and risk for which we don’t have enough information to assign a probability. Urban Development

Publication April 17, 2020 COVID-19 and Public Health Preparedness: The Need for a Paradigm Shift Cities have long relied on public health infrastructure, albeit invisible, to maintain the health of their residents. This infrastructure is most effective work when it remains in the shadows. It stops contagion and the inevitable spread of illness before it happens, before it has the opportunity to transform a community in the many ways that are now so familiar to us all.

Publication April 17, 2020 CURA: Shipping a COVID-19 Innovative Solution COVID-19 hit Ecuador in early March. Critical-care hospitals were rapidly overcrowded and the death toll was staggering; the spine-chilling situation pushed me to think of ways to help. Mauricio Rodas Urban Development

Initiatives April 16, 2020 Cities and Contagion: Lessons from COVID-19 The Cities and Contagion: Lessons from COVID-19 initiative brought together experts across scholarly disciplines who could help interpret the coronavirus pandemic’s implications for urbanization and the subsequent responses to its human and economic dimensions. This work informed public and private decision-makers as they adapted cities to be more resilient, inclusive, and innovative. The initiative had four parts: publications, a web-based resource library, convenings (both online and, when appropriate, in person) and research projects. Urban Development

Article March 13, 2020 Faculty Spotlight: Eugenia South Eugenia (Gina) South

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