Reducing Socio-spatial Segregation among Youth and Children in Helsinki
Guest blog by Antti Leino, IPP’23 When presented with the opportunity to take the Harvard IPP program in the spring of 2023, I was a bit hesitant at first as […]
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Weaving Health into the Policy Fabric: Dearborn’s Journey Toward Inclusive Governance
Guest blog by Ali Abazeed, IPP ’23 Introduction In the quiet bustle of my hometown of Dearborn, Michigan, the city that put the world on wheels, a new kind of […]
Taking Action to Reduce Poverty in Tempe, Arizona
Guest blog by Parrish Spisz, IPP ’23 I need to tell the truth. I almost didn’t make it to this Harvard Kennedy School Implementing Public Policy (IPP) course. I glanced […]
Regulatory improvement and digitization of the government procedure service in Monterrey City
Guest blog by Cintia Smith, IPP ’23 I started the IPP program a year after beginning the analysis of the public issue we were addressing, which, in our case, was […]
Building public trust in the midst of crisis and change
Guest blog by Jennifer Hale Christy, IPP ’23 I began my Implementing Public Policy journey in May of 2023, eight months into serving as Chief of Staff to the Mayor […]
Building a 15-minute city in lower income neighborhoods – with people, not for people
Guest blog by Joyce Pan Huang, IPP ’23 As someone new to the public sector in the last two years, I leapt at the opportunity to attend the Implementing Public […]
Providing Quality Housing in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Guest blog by Eileen Cipriani It has been a great pleasure to be part of a class with so many dynamic leaders, doing such diverse and important work and to […]
Implementing PDIA in Digital Transformation of Riga City
Guest blog by Rasmuss Filips Geks Back in 2001, something groundbreaking occurred. Seventeen technologists gathered in the Wasatch mountains of Utah to draft the Agile Manifesto. It was a set […]
Declining Downtown Densification in Western Canada: Problem Definition is the Foundation to Getting it Right
Guest blog by Dawn Kobayashi I had the absolute privilege of attending the IPP program on behalf of Harvard Bloomberg. I had the internal belief that I had some inkling […]
Tackling Traffic Congestion in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Guest blog by Romeo Ramlakhan, IPP ’22 “Good luck with that!” Those where the exact same words an elected official in City Hall told me in the early days of […]