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SHP-Kaiser Collaboration on Estimates and Projections of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage
News / June 17, 2021
Stanford Health Policy and the Kaiser Family Foundation are collaborating to examine the disparities in meeting vaccination benchmarks by using state-reported vaccination data by race/ethnicity and...
Rosenkranz Prize Winners Focus on Child and Maternal Health
News / June 16, 2021
This year’s Rosenkranz Prize winners are both working to better understand preeclampsia in pregnancies and a form of childhood malnutrition in lower-resourced countries in an effort to find medical...
Incorporating Health Equity Into COVID-19 Reopening Plans: Policy Experimentation in California
News / June 16, 2021
Michelle Mello evaluates the benefits and challenges of California's novel health equity focus in its reopening efforts and outlines recommendations for other U.S. states to address disparities...
Passing the Test: A Model-Based Analysis of Safe School-Reopening Strategies
News / June 14, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked historic educational disruptions. In an effort to inform public policy on the school re-opening debate, a team of researchers developed a model to simulate...
Maya Rossin-Slater Wins Faculty Women’s Forum Award
News / June 14, 2021
The awards honor individuals for their outstanding work supporting women at Stanford through role modeling, allyship, leadership and sponsorship.
Even Short-Term Treatment of Vets With Opioid Use Disorder Is Effective
News / June 4, 2021
The Veterans Administration is the largest provider of opioid use disorder treatment in the United States. In new Stanford Health Policy research, PhD student Jack Ching and faculty find short-term...
5 Questions: David Relman on Investigating Origin of Coronavirus
Commentary / June 2, 2021
Microbiologist David Relman discusses the importance of understanding how the coronavirus emerged.
Contact-tracing App Curbed Spread of COVID in England and Wales
News / May 28, 2021
SHP's Jason Wang writes in this Nature article that digital contact tracing has the potential to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Meeting the Moment: Department of Medicine 2021 Annual Report
News / May 27, 2021
Two projects launched at Stanford Health Policy are featured in the Stanford Department of Medicine 2021 Annual Report: the COVID Modeling Project and Maya Rossin-Slater's work to mentor women...
When Screening for Colon Cancer To Save Lives: 45 Is the New 50
News / May 18, 2021
A national body of evidence-based health experts — including SHP Director Douglas K. Owens — recommends screening for colon cancer in adults 45 to 75 in an effort to protect Americans from the third...
California's Latinos Hit Hard At All Levels by Pandemic
News / May 13, 2021
Latinos, the state’s largest ethnic group, have faced greater exposure to COVID-19 and has contracted and died from the coronavirus at higher rates than non-Hispanic whites, according to a study led...
Encouraging Sign: Many California Prisoners Willing To Be Vaccinated
News / May 12, 2021
Two-thirds of the nearly 100,000 incarcerated residents in California's 35 prisons were offered COVID-19 vaccines and 66.5% of those accepted at least one dose, according to a new Stanford study...
The Importance of Risk Perceptions During Pandemic Shutdowns
News / May 6, 2021
A new Stanford study suggests that people’s perceptions of their own risks play an important role in their actions — and that shelter-in-place policies influence what they do, but not to the extent...
Study Finds That Paid Family Leave Does Not Hurt Employers
News / April 12, 2021
President Joe Biden is expected to propose paid family leave as part of a revamp of what advocates call the nation’s “care infrastructure.” Stanford Health Policy's Maya Rossin-Slater looks at a...
Sherri Rose Wins Prestigious Gertrude M. Cox Award
News / April 7, 2021
The award recognizes a statistician in early to mid-career who has made significant contributions to one or more of the areas of applied statistics in which Gertrude Cox worked: survey methodology,...
"Vaccine Passport” Certification — Policy and Ethical Considerations
Commentary / March 31, 2021
As the Biden administration considers a national COVID-19 "vaccine passport" program, David Studdert, a professor of medicine at Stanford Health Policy and a professor of law at Stanford...
Stanford Team Reveals Cost-Effective and Life-Saving Treatment for Nation's Opioid Disorder Epidemic
News / March 31, 2021
A Stanford team of decision scientists with colleagues at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System developed a mathematical model to assess the cost-effectiveness of various interventions to treat opioid...
A Story One Year in the Telling: the Stanford COVID Modeling Project
News / March 11, 2021
The Stanford-CIDE Coronavirus Simulation Model was established in the frightening days when the world was realizing a deadly virus in China would become a pandemic. A look at its accomplishments and...
New Guidelines Could Nearly Double Lung Cancer Screenings
News / March 9, 2021
More women and African Americans would be prompted by their clinicians to get screened for lung cancer under a new recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Choices in a Crisis — Individual Preferences among COVID Vaccines
Commentary / March 3, 2021
Now that a third COVID-19 vaccine has been given emergency-use authorization, Michelle Mello and colleagues ask whether individuals should be able to choose which vaccine they receive.
Melding Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms with Health Care and Policy to Combat Human Trafficking
News / February 24, 2021
The Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab conducts critical research through a collaboration among academics, health-care providers and frontline trafficking experts and prosecutors, using promising...
Mapping the Inequality of COVID-19 Household Exposure and Transmission Risk
News / February 19, 2021
Communities of color may be most susceptible to low coverage due to long-standing disparities in healthcare, mistrust fueled by a history of exploitation in clinical trials, and other structural risk...
Babies Born Too Early Likely to Face Educational and Lifelong Behavioral Setbacks
News / February 16, 2021
SHP's Lee Sanders and his Stanford colleagues found that after adjusting for socioeconomic status and compared with full-term births, moderate and late preterm births are associated with...
Mary Goldstein's CDS System at VA Palo Alto Health Care System
News / February 9, 2021
Mary Goldstein, an expert on evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, gets recognition for her work from the 1990s — a knowledge-based clinical decision support (CDS) system still serving the VA...
Excess Mortality Rates Early in Pandemic Highest Among Blacks
News / February 1, 2021
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been starkly uneven across race, ethnicity and geography, according to a new study led by SHP's Maria Polyakova.
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