The year 2020 was atypical in many ways. The COVID-19 pandemic brought a series of challenges to educational institutions worldwide, which needed to innovate in order to continue the school year amidst the biggest public health crisis of the last hundred years.
The Postgraduate Program in Public Administration at IDP remained steadfast in its commitment to promoting the dissemination of knowledge, even in the face of the numerous difficulties brought about by the year 2020.
Today, we can look at 2020 as a year of growth for IDP, with great emphasis on the work of its faculty, students, and alumni, who were responsible for productions of high relevance to Brazilian public administration.
Below you will find publications in academic journals, technical productions, awards, and other relevant outputs from the IDP's Professional Master's Program in Public Administration in 2020:
- Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Rio Grande do Sul: Population-based study and validation of diagnostic tests.In this study, with the participation of Professor Leany Lemos, then Secretary of Planning and Management of Rio Grande do Sul, unprecedented data on the spread of COVID-19 were collected. The research conducted by Professor Leany Lemos and her team, and by the Federal University of Pelotas, used data from Brazil and other countries to develop sophisticated epidemiological models of COVID-19, and was highlighted in... national vehicles e international press.
- Gov.br – Single Portal for Services and Information of the Federal GovernmentProduced with the participation of Professor Felipe Cruz, the Gov.br portal aims to significantly simplify access to information for Brazilian citizens by centralizing the Federal Government's digital channels on a single internet page. Given the high complexity of Brazilian public administration, the Gov.br portal is an initiative that increases the effectiveness of the right of access to public services provided by the Brazilian State. The portal is currently in the testing phase and will be launched in December 2020.
- Privatization of Brazilian airports: a synthetic control approach. Article published in the magazine Economics Bulletin (Qualis A4) by Professor Caio Resende, co-authored with Tiago Caldeira, also from IDP. The article deals with the evaluation of an important public policy: the privatization of airports. It is also worth highlighting the methodological sophistication of the article, which employs the synthetic control method to evaluate the revenue gains resulting from the privatization of Brazilian airports.
