Health & Human Services
Content tagged with Health & Human Services
Good, Responsive Services Start With the Resident
In this episode of the Data-Smart City Pod, host Stephen Goldsmith speaks with Dr. Kim Leary, director of the Good Services Lab at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, about how listening is an active skill, why selection bias shapes who...
How Seattle Built a Benefits Portal to Share Benefits Widely
Learn how Seattle created CiviForm by co-designing with residents and staff. A step-by-step guide for cities building integrated benefit access platforms.
Bringing Technology to Bear on Homelessness
The Promise and Peril of AI in Criminal Justice Systems
How Phoenix Reduced Extreme Heat Mortality
Crisis Leadership and Cross-Agency Collaboration: Milwaukee’s Rapid Response to a Lead Emergency
Supporting Childhood Opportunity Starts With Environmental Justice
SNAP in 2025: What Mayors Need to Know
This companion piece to our recent podcast, What Mayors Need to Know About SNAP, presents information from the episode as an easy-to-read one-pager for mayors and other city leaders.
Confronting Extreme Heat, Cities Prepare for a Silent Killer
At Harvard’s Climate Action Week, local leaders joined medical and policy experts in a hands-on simulation to test responses and share strategies for protecting residents from the deadliest climate threat in the U.S.