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What’s Behind the Increase in ADHD?
News / January 14, 2021
New research by SHP's Maya Rossin-Slater shows that borderline ADHD diagnoses appear to be behind the dramatic increase in the number of cases in the last few decades. Those cases also appear to...
New Study of Gun Violence in Schools Identifies Long-Term Harms
News / January 4, 2021
The most comprehensive study of American children who experience gun violence at school finds they are less likely to graduate from high school or enroll in college — and less likely to hold a job as...
An Alternative Dose Distribution Of Tight COVID-19 Vaccine Supply
News / January 4, 2021
SHP's Joshua Salomon and colleagues offer an alternative approach to COVID-19 vaccine distribution — modeling a flexible strategy that would result in an additional 23% to 29% of COVID-19 cases...
So Your Parents Want You To Be a Doctor?
News / December 17, 2020
New research by Maria Polyakova and Petra Persson — both faculty fellows at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research — shows that socioeconomic status is hereditary and getting stronger...
The Uncertain Impact of Accelerating Science
Commentary / December 7, 2020
The urgency of the coronavirus pandemic has led to enormous research efforts and some shortcuts. Michelle Mello, a professor of medicine and law, and David Magnus, a professor of medicine and...
Economics Need More Women As Field Impacts Public Policy
News / December 7, 2020
The world of economics has not always opened its arms to women — in fact it can be outright hostile. But the field influences so much public policy, so SHP medical economist Maya Rossin-Slater brings...
Stanford PhD Students Investigate Racial Disparities in COVID-19
News / December 1, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Black and Hispanic populations harder than most for a variety of socioeconomic and medical reasons. Two Stanford PhD students are investigating what interventions might...
Team Builds Robust Database of CA COVID-19 Public Health Orders
News / November 30, 2020
California and its 58 counties have issued more than 1,500 public health orders since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. A team of Stanford researchers has put those orders into a dataset to...
SHP COVID Modeling Project Probes Secondary COVID Transmissions
Q&A / November 20, 2020
Hannah Fung — a PhD candidate in biology at the School of Humanities and Sciences and a member of the SHP COVID modeling team — talks to us about a new study that shows 17% of COVID-19 patients pass...
School Reopenings and the Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic
News / October 28, 2020
SHP's Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, David Studdert and Michelle Mello write in this JAMA Health Forum Insight that school reopening efforts must account for characteristics of the communities within...
Task Force Urges Younger People to Get Screen for Colon Cancer
News / October 27, 2020
Most Americans think colorectal cancer is a disease of the elderly. But more young people — particularly Black men and women — are falling to the country's third deadliest type of cancer. The U...
The Missing Piece — COVID-19 Testing and School Reopening
Commentary / October 23, 2020
Stanford Health Policy's Michelle Mello and Stanford medical student Yasmin Rafiei write in this New England Journal of Medicine perspective that most school reopening plans focus on screening...
Paul Wise: Special Expert for the U.S. Federal Court Overseeing Treatment of Migrant Children at Border
News / October 21, 2020
With unaccompanied minors being detained in hotels during COVID-19, Stanford professor of pediatrics Paul Wise is among the few external people with full access to the facilities, detained children,...
Initial Economic Damage from the COVID-19 Pandemic More Widespread Across Ages and Geographies than Initial Mortality Impacts
Q&A / October 20, 2020
Maria Polyakova and colleagues examine how the pandemic impacted individual livelihoods depending on where people live, as well as the age of coronavirus victims.
Loren Baker Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
News / October 19, 2020
Election to the National Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, recognizing individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and...
An Impact-Oriented Approach to COVID-19 Epidemiological Modeling
Commentary / September 28, 2020
Epidemiological modeling has emerged as a crucial tool to help decision-makers combat COVID-19, with calls for non-pharmaceutical interventions such as stay-at-home orders and the wearing of masks...
The Silent Cost of School Shootings
News / September 23, 2020
School shootings are a horrific U.S. phenomenon. And the tragedies aren’t limited to the shootings themselves. SHP's Maya Rossin-Slater finds that fatal shootings have a lingering impact on the...
How Polio Eradication in Africa Can Inform Global COVID-19 Response
Commentary / September 16, 2020
An estimated 1.8 million African children have been spared crippling paralysis, and 180,000 lives have been saved. Lessons from this success can inform our global response to COVID-19.
Classroom Learning With Safety In Mind: A Pediatrician’s Thoughts
Q&A / September 15, 2020
For a recent 1:2:1 podcast, Stanford Medicine's Paul Costello asked Stanford Health Policy's Jason Wang about best practices for keeping schools safe and why it's important for kids to...
Goldhaber-Fiebert elected to Society for Medical Decision Making Board
News / September 15, 2020
Goldhaber-Fiebert will become the Society of Medical Decision Making's next secretary-treasurer. “SMDM has been bringing together the global methodological leaders in decision science for health...
Lockdowns Increase Domestic Violence and Potential Harm to Fetuses
News / September 1, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating domestic violence, particularly among low-income families. Research by Maya Rossin-Slater finds that babies born to mothers who experience an assault during...
Research Looks at Policy Fix for Hepatitis C Infections in Prisons
News / August 25, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the 8th Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, to guarantee prisoners a minimum basic level of health care. Yet even...
Rosenkranz Prize Winner Leads Effort to Protect Health-Care Workers from COVID-19 in Under-Resourced Countries
News / August 22, 2020
Stanford postdoc Ashley Styczynski and collaborators build a website devoted to protecting health-care workers in under-resourced countries, using infographics and videos to show them how to create,...
Contact Tracing Model Shows Potential Impact Against COVID-19, Yet Obstacles Abound
News / August 21, 2020
While there is no national, cohesive COVID-19 contact tracing plan, SHP's Joshua Salomon writes that it's important to continue to invest in contact tracing capacity now, because once we...
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