Beth Weitzman

Beth C. Weitzman is the former Vice Dean at NYU Steinhardt, where she is also Professor of Health and Public Policy. Prior to her joining the Steinhardt School in 2009, Dr. Weitzman spent more than 20 years on the faculty at NYU''s Wagner Graduate School. There she taught classes in research methods and in community health and medical care.

Dr. Weitzman''s research interests focus on urban policies affecting poor families and their children; she has evaluated a range of program aimed at meeting the health, social service, housing, and educational needs of these families. She conducted more than a decade of research on homeless families, beginning in the late 1980''s, with funding from New York City''s Human Resources Administration, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. More recently, Dr. Weitzman has been directing the national evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation''s Urban Health Initiative. Dr. Weitzman brings to her research extensive experience in program evaluation and in primary data collection. Her work has been published in such journals as Youth and Society, the Journal of Adolescent Health, Health and Place, Public Administration Review, the Journal of Urban Health, and the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, and she serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Evaluation.

Areas of Expertise

City Management

Education

Evaluation

Health Management

Health Policy

Housing & Community Development

Poverty

Urban Policy