The 2025 Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium
The 4th annual Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium was held on be held on May 20, 2025. The day-long event showcases innovative global health policy research from academics around the world. Our keynote speaker was Sir Peter Piot, MD, PhD, a prominent leader in global health policy and practice.
After helping discover the Ebola virus in 1976 and leading efforts to contain the first-ever recorded Ebola epidemic that same year, Piot became a pioneering researcher into AIDS. He has held key positions in the United Nations and World Health Organization involving AIDS research and management. He has also served as a professor at several universities worldwide, including the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where he is currently the Handa Professor of Global Health. Piot is the author of more than 600 scientific articles and 16 books, including his memoir, "No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses."
"My mantra is that nobody's rich enough not to learn from someone else, and nobody's poor enough not to have something to offer." — Piot
AGENDA
8:00 AM-9:00 AM—Registration and Light Refreshments
9:00 AM-9:35 AM—Nathan Franz, University of Texas at Austin: Cheaper and Better? Explaining the Newborn Mortality Advantage at Public vs. Private Hospitals in India
9:35 AM-10:10 AM—Meiping Aggie Sun, Fordham University: Long-Term and Multi-Generational Impacts of Skilled Birth Attendance
10:10 AM-10:45 AM—Nicolas Roig, University of Alicante: Preventing Teen Pregnancies at Scale—School-Based Access to Contraceptives and Reproductive Health
10:45 AM-11:05 AM—Break
11:05 AM-11:40 AM—Robel Alemu, UCLA and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT: Disrupted Nutrition, Disrupted Lives—Abrupt and Prolonged Loss of Iodized-Salt Access Harmed Later-Life Academic Achievement and Survival in Ethiopia
11:40 AM-12:15 PM—Yunwei Chen, Stanford University: Quality of Primary Healthcare and Family Antibiotic Consumption in Rural China—A Machine-Learning Approach
12:15 PM -1:15 PM—Lunch (Encina Hall Front Lawn)
1:15 PM-1:50 PM—Qinyou Hu, University of Texas at San Antonio: Sad! I Got Talent but My Mom Doesn’t Know It— Parental Belief Gap and Adolescent Depression
1:50 PM-2:25 PM—Luiz Felipe Campos Fontes, Insper: Outsourcing Management in Public Service Delivery—Evidence from Healthcare in Brazil
2:25 PM-3:00 PM—Jon Denton-Schneider, Clark University: Deworming as HIV Prevention for Young Women—Evidence from Zimbabwe
3:30 PM-4:40 PM—Keynote with Sir Peter Piot (Bechtel Conference Center)
4:40 PM-5:30 PM—Reception (Bechtel Courtyard)
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation
American Medical Association (AMA)
Stanford Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 5.50 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Please be sure to register for the event and check in upon arrival so the CME office can follow up after the symposium with instructions on how to claim your credit.
View full CME information and disclosure summary at https://stanford.cloud-cme.com/2025rosenkranzsymposium
