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Written or co-Written by Troy Tassier
The Unexpected Legacy of the Tenement: How the demand for immigrant housing in the late 19th century made Manhattan a safer city, Peacham, October, 15 2025
Infectious disease lessons for today from New York City tenement reform The Hill, February 19, 2024
How Deadly Were Gotham's Tenements? Infectious Disease in the 19th Century (Part II), Skynomics Blog, November 27, 2023
How Deadly Were Gotham’s Tenements? Infectious Disease in the 19th Century (Part I), Skynomics Blog, November 6, 2023
The Pandemic Tsunami: How COVID-19 Swept Across America, Skynomics Blog, February 25, 2021
Border Crossings: The Spread of COVID-19 across U.S. Counties, Skynomics Blog, May 19, 2020
Escape from New York?: Density and the Coronavirus Trajectory (Expanded version of Scientific American article), SkynomicsBlog, April 20,
2020
Are Crowded Cities the Reason for the COIVD-19 Pandemic? Placing too much blame on urban density is a mistake Scientific American, April 17, 2020
Podcast, Print, and Radio Interviews/ Videos
Going Viral: How the Measles Outbreak Is Growing Like a Social Network, Fordham Now, Chris Gosier, March 27, 2025
PEPFAR, Fordham IPED Tiny Talks with Philip Chan, February 12, 2025
Economics and Epidemics: Unraveling the Social Networks of Public Health, One Health Wednesdays with Ginger Dixon, January 22, 2025
Health Policy Under Trump, Fordham IPED Tiny Talks with Philip Chan, November 26, 2024
The Great Equalizer? Not Exactly. What We Got Wrong during the Pandemic, Fordham Now, Patrick Verel, April 18, 2024
Economist Says Lessons of Past Can Guide Path Forward Through Pandemic Patrick Verel Podcast, December 21, 2020
Vaccination Time, WFUV Interview with Nina Flaherty, August 8, 2009
Understanding Epidemics Video Series Introduction
Raw Facts: Economics Professor on the Novel Coronavirus
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Quotes/ Mentions in Major Media
ABC News, COVID devastated New York, but here's why experts say it fared better in fall surge, February 26, 2021
ABC News, A tale of two pandemics: How coronavirus split the map of the U.S., May 1, 2020
Associated Press, New York struggles with coronavirus, U.S. deaths top 1,000, March 25, 2020
Associated Press, Experts ponder causes of New York's 'breathtaking' outbreak, March 25, 2020
Bloomberg CityLab, The Curious Case of New York's Two Economic Centers: Why Midtown and Wall Street developed both separately and parallel to each other, November 23, 2016
Crain's New York Business, NY COVID alert app exceeds 500,000 downloads, October 28, 2020
Crain's New York Business, Here's why experts say Cuomo's shutdown won't work, October 7, 2020
Crain's New York Business, With indoor dining coming back, restaurants say thank you - ambivalently, September 10, 2020
Crain's New York Business, Here's why indoor dining might not happen in the city anytime soon, August 25, 2020
Forbes, There Is Little Evidence We Are Learning The Right Lessons From Covid: Report, October 27, 2021
JSTOR Daily, The Real Reason NYC's Skyscrapers Are Where They Are, August 9, 2017
MSNBC, There's something big missing from Trump's post-war manufacturing fantasy, (link to substack post within article) April 8, 2025
Nature, Wild women and restoring public trust, Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks, April 5, 2024
New Scientist, Science to look out for, December 30, 2023
New York Observer, Uncanny Valley: The Real Reason There Are No Skyscrapers in the Middle of Manhattan, January 17, 2012
New York Times, 450 Million Years Ago, Hell's Kitchen earned Its Name, February 5, 2012
Newsweek, New York's COVID Cases Rise Nearly 70 Percent in 2 Weeks After Flattening Out for Months, October 7, 2020
Reuters New York City ahead of the curve on COVID-19, but faces risks going into fall, August 21, 2020
The City, New York City regained 11,000 restaurant Jobs Last Month. Now Those - and More - Could Disappear, November 19, 2020
The City, Business Leaders Push for Faster Action to Spur NYC's Economic Comeback, September 1, 2020
The Nation, We're Facing a Potential Bird Flu Catastrophe, May 30, 2024
The Street, Is Christmas Cancelled? Questions about a US Omicron Lockdown Linger, December 21, 2021