Biden School Staff Present and Moderate at ASPA Conference

​Julia O’Hanlon, policy scientist at the Institute for Public Administration (IPA), and Alisa Moldavanova, MPA program director and associate professor at the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, presented and moderated at the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) annual conference, “Protecting Democracy for the Next Generation: The Role and Responsibility of Public Administration,” on March 22, 2023. The panel session was sponsored and hosted by ASPA's Section on Public Administration Research. Moldavanova is the chair of this section and served as one of the panel session's moderators. The panel discussed what researchers can do to make their research usable and actionable; how practitioners relay potential research topics to researchers; and what areas or questions appear to be particularly under-researched. O’Hanlon highlighted IPA's partnership with Delaware Sea Grant and the Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA). O’Hanlon and Nicole Minni, working with Delaware Sea Grant's Danielle Swallow, have been funded by DEMA the past several years to develop DE-PLANS - Delaware Equitable Planning for Local Adaptation Needs. This hub site serves as a one-stop resource for aiding emergency management, resilience planning and outreach related to Delaware's older adults. This work features important connections between emergency preparedness and aging in place and aims to build capacity for state and local responders and policymakers. The Institute for Public Administration is a research and public service center in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration.​

Article by Sophonie Milord. Originally posted in UDaily's For the Record​.​