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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Harold Varmus, Nobel Laureate and Former NIH Director, Outlines His Vision for ‘Science Peace Corps’ Annual Schwartz Memorial Health Policy Lecture at NYU’s Wagner

IPDATE School Focuses on Scientific and Medical Strategies to Increase Health and Wealth of World’s Poor The aids pandemic is only the most visible and urgent that good health is a necessary Spring 2002 of the many health challenges facing citizens in devel- predicate to, not just a result of, oping countries. Others Include malaria, drug-resistant economic development. Volume 8, Issue 3 “P"*’" PPP- to "rZS co^SenJoS “

INSIDE a aran rica. 1989 Nobel Prize in medicine. Public health experts increasingly argue that there is and former director of the National Institutes of an intrinsic linkage between the health condition of a Health, delivered the 2nd Annual Arnold Schwartz nation’s people and the potential economic growth Memorial Health Lecture at the Wagner School. Entitled ALUMNI ASSOCIATION needed for a nation to develop. They make the case continued on page 5 BOARD ELECTIONS 5 T 0 9 ANDREW CUOMO ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE Recovery, Rebuilding & A Memorial: REFORM What Do New Yorkers Think? Citizens Gather At Forum Co-Sponsored By NYU To Discuss and Vote NEW DEAN’S On Their Approaches to Rebuilding New York COUNCIL MEMBERS Over 600 citizens came together on February 7,2002, at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan to discuss their ideas about the vision and values that should drive the recovery and rebuilding of downtown New York City in the wake of the destruction of the World Trade Center. They included those affected most directly by the September 11'” disaster-survivors, families of victims, and downtown Manhattan workers, residents and small business owners - and police officers, firefighters, The “Listening to the City" fimim gathered over 600 citizens at the students and parents as well as foundation and NGO South Street SeapOrt on February yth to voice their own ideas about leaders and elected and appointed government officials. rebuilding New York City.

Entitled “Listening to the City,” the forum was co­ Center For Real Estate and Urban Policy. sponsored by members of the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Using “electronic town meeting” tools-wireless laptop Downtown New York, a program of the Regional Plan computers, polling keypads and trained facilitators Association, New York University’s Wagner School of from AmericaSpeoks - participants talked about the Public Service (Center for Excellence in New York City impact of September 11“’; the economic, social and Governance, Institute of Civil Infrastructure Systems, infrastructure principles for rebuilding; and the form and the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and and spirit of an appropriate memorial at the World Management), the School of Law, and the Furman Trade Center site. continued on pages VISIT US ON THE WEB RELATED NEWS: • WTC Research Teams Present Findings, Pg 3 http://www.wagner.nyu.edu • Wagner Alum Central to WTC Emergency Efforts, Pg 10

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