Beth Duff-Brown

Beth Duff-Brown at Stanford Health Policy

Beth Duff-Brown

  • Communications Manager

Stanford Health Policy
615 Crothers Way, Room 176
Stanford, CA 94305

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Biography

Beth Duff-Brown became the Communications Manager at Stanford Health Policy in May 2015. She was the editorial director at the Center for International Security and Cooperation for three years before joining the health policy and research centers at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the School of Medicine. Before coming to Stanford, Beth worked in Africa and Asia as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press, including as bureau chief for South Asia, based in New Delhi, and as the Deputy Asia Editor at the Asia-Pacific Desk in Bangkok, overseeing the daily news report from Afghanistan to Australia. She was a 2010-2011 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, where she developed a digital platform to tell stories about women and girls in the developing world. Beth has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In The News

A telehealth visit
Q&As

Optimizing the Telehealth Experience Could Benefit Patients and Physicians

To address a workflow crisis for physicians and improve the patient experience, Stanford Medicine’s Kevin Schulman and colleagues propose a new approach they call digitally enabled care.
Optimizing the Telehealth Experience Could Benefit Patients and Physicians
Photo of Hepatitis B Test
Q&As

Researchers Team Up with CDC to Expand Hepatitis B Screening

Most Americans don’t know they may be infected with the hepatitis B virus, the leading cause of liver cancer around the world. Stanford researchers have been working with the CDC to provide evidence that screening every adult for the virus would not only be cost-effective, but could save many lives.
Researchers Team Up with CDC to Expand Hepatitis B Screening
Stanford Health Policy's Vincent Jappah in Nepal for medical research.
Q&As

Health Policy PhD Candidate Vincent Jappah Overcomes Childhood Amid Civil War Through His Determination To Get an Education

From education in displaced persons camps to working on his PhD at Stanford Health Policy, Vincent Jappah is applying his childhood experiences during the civil war in his native Liberia toward a career helping to bring quality health care to all corners of the world.
Health Policy PhD Candidate Vincent Jappah Overcomes Childhood Amid Civil War Through His Determination To Get an Education