Gov Innovator Podcast
Summary: The Gov Innovator podcast, hosted by Dr. Andy Feldman, features concise ten-minute interviews with insightful public sector innovators and experts. Its goal is to share useful practices and insights with public leaders related to evidence-based policy, data-driven decision making, public sector innovation and the important role of leadership.
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Podcasts:
Dean Karlan of Yale University and the nonprofit Innovations for Poverty Action discusses the value of randomized evaluations for addressing global poverty and other important social policy challenges.
Freeman Hrabowski, President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, discusses the Meyerhoff Scholars Program.
Erin Dalton of the Allegheny County Department of Human Services discusses the county's Data Warehouse, a leading examples of using integrated data to better serve individuals and families.
Maia Jachimowicz, former policy director to Mayor Michael Nutter in Philadelphia, describes how the city strengthened a culture of evidence, data and results.
Can a tax on sugary drinks reduce consumption and therefore fight obesity? A conversation with Barry Popkin of UNC about Mexico's tax on sugary drinks.
David Just of Cornell University discusses how schools can use low-cost solutions to help children make healthier food choices.
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Tina Rosenberg explains how Mexico overcame soda industry opposition to pass a soda tax in 2013.
Patrick McCarthy, President of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, discusses his call for states to close state-funded juvenile corrections facilities.
Donna Linderman provides an overview of CUNY's ASAP program, which doubled graduation rates of community college students.
Larry Wolk, Executive Director of Colorado's Dept. of Public Health & Environment, discusses this leading state initiative to reduce unintended pregnancies.
Dr. Hillary Seligman of UCSF discusses a pilot intervention to use food banks be used to address diet-sensitive disease in low-income communities.
Henry Sobanet, Colorado's budget director, discusses the state's lean initiative to make state government more efficient & effective.
Jeff Liebman of the Harvard Kennedy School describes the proposal, called the Ten Year Challenge.
Betsy Levy Paluck of Princeton University discusses a strategy to reduce bullying by targeting influential students, with sizable positive effects.
How can public leaders, whether you’re running a large department or a small program, apply the insights of behavioral economics and other behavioral sciences to improve results? A simplified framework for the application of behavioral insights was developed by the U.K. Behavioral Insights Team (@B_I_Tweets) provides a useful way to start. The framework is called “EAST,” which stands for Easy, Attractive, […]
