COVID-19

In 2022, a collaborative team at Riverside University Health System - Public Health (RUHS - PH), embarked on a project to address health disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates. The mission, funded by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

At our spring 2023 Project on Municipal Innovation event the world-renowned economist, author, and Harvard professor Edward Glaeser spoke to chiefs of staff and deputy mayors of 30 of the largest US cities about the history of cities and pandemics, the...

June 8, 2022 City Administration Local officials influence conduct in their cities in diverse ways; they tax, legislate and regulate. They invest in infrastructure, can declare states of emergency and, when necessary, authorize legal use of force. In...

May 4, 2022 GIS In this episode Professor Goldsmith interviews Dr. Ben Weston, Chief Health Policy Advisor and Director of Medical Services for Milwaukee County. Dr. Weston discusses his roles in the county and how his team collected and mapped data to...

March 28, 2022 Data visualization More than two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is sobering to account for all we’ve experienced as a nation. At the time of writing, the United States alone is approaching 80 million total cases and 1...

January 31, 2022 GIS This article originally appeared in Government Technology. These past two years, as COVID-19 swept the globe, municipal residents have needed to know infection and immunization rates, deaths, hospital capacity, and more in order to...

August 30, 2021 COVID-19 This article originally appeared on on Governing.com During any crisis, and especially during a long-running one such as COVID-19, local leaders need to rally their residents and encourage them to take certain steps and adopt...

Like many other facets of public life, the pandemic’s impact on public transit has been nothing short of devastating. Business closures, as well as stay-at-home and social distancing orders, coupled with the significant increase of people working remotely...

June 3, 2021 COVID-19 It’s been almost seventeen months since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019. After spreading to almost every country in the world, the pandemic has not only taken millions of lives, but has also...