The 2nd Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium at Stanford University will be held on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. The Symposium is a day-long event that showcases innovative global health policy research from academics across the country. After the symposium, our keynote speaker will be Sheila Tlou and her talk will be open to the wider public. Dr. Tlou, a prominent figure in gender and HIV/AIDS policy in Africa, will discuss her personal experiences in translating and applying evidence-based decision-making to global health policy in the areas of gender, health, and HIV/AIDS. Tlou was the minister of health of Botswana at the height of the HIV epidemic and currently is the Co-Chair of the Global HIV Prevention Coalition and Co-Chair of the Nursing Now Global Campaign. Tlou, who has a PhD in community nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago, helped launch the WHO’s State of the World Nursing Report in Geneva.
The Day's Agenda
8:30 AM -9:10 AM: Jessica Cohen / Results from an RCT on maternal and newborn health care, health care quality and health outcomes from Kenya.
9:10 AM - 9:50 AM: Damian Clarke / Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health? Lessons from Constitutional Reform in Brazil.
10:00 AM -10:40 AM: Eyal Frank / The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India
10:40 AM - 11:20 AM: Marie Christelle Mabeu / A project that centered around the question of whether and how Colonial forced labor shapes fertility behaviors and preferences in Burkina Faso.
11:30 AM - 12:10 PM: Timothy Powell-Jackson / On the relationship between management and quality of clinical care in Tanzania)
12:10 PM-1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:40 PM: Maria Rosales-Rueda / Social interventions, health and wellbeing: The long-term and intergenerational effects of a school construction program.
1:40 PM - 2:20 PM : Antonella Bancalari / Public Service Delivery and Free Riding: Experimental Evidence from India
Keynote event (Paul Brest Hall - East)
3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Keynote by Sheila Tlou followed by conversation with Michele Barry
4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Reception
