The 2025 Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium
The 4th annual Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium at Stanford University will be held on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. The Symposium is a day-long event that showcases innovative global health policy research from academics around the world. Our keynote speaker will be Sir Peter Piot, 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."
The day-long program will feature in-depth presentations of original global health research. We are soliciting papers from all disciplines for oral presentation, with a particular interest in novel, creative, and thought-provoking research addressing issues of significance to global health. Papers will be selected based on the innovation and rigor of the topic and analysis. Junior scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.
The Symposium is hosted by Stanford Health Policy with support from the Rosenkranz family, and will cover presenters’ travel and logistics.
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 I— 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)
In this video, the Honorable Mark Dybul, MD, gives the keynote address at the 2024 Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium, discussing the great strides in international health systems over the last 25 years—while calling on next generation to disrupt a system that has become stagnant.
