Launching AI-Driven Initiatives to Combat Labor Trafficking in Brazil
The Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab led by SHP's Grant Miller, PhD, is poised to launch two new AI-driven initiatives to combat labor trafficking across supply chains and within the justice system in Brazil.
Why Tracking Pediatric Hospital Care Matters as Medicaid Cuts Loom
In a JAMA Pediatrics research letter, SHP’s Lee Sanders, MD, MPH, argues that with the looming cuts to Medicaid, it’s essential to understand how changes to pediatric hospitals could affect families’ access to care, as well as the financial stability of health systems.
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, wear and preserve personal protective equipment.
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 can get a handle on the virus, the combination of testing, contact tracing and supported isolation will be essential to the containment and outbreak response.
SHP's Jason Wang and School of Medicine student Henry Bair suggest schools should and can reopen safely if they follow a set of strict — though expensive — guidelines to avoid COVID-19 infections among students and teachers.
The CDC called on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to develop a set of national, evidence-based guidelines for public health emergency preparedness and response. The recommendations are in.
A team of Stanford researchers is working with the State of California on a new COVID-19 assessment tool to help hospitals and public health officials in their pandemic preparedness planning.
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.
Men who own handguns are eight times more likely to die of suicide by handgun than men who don’t have one — and women who own handguns are 35 times more likely than women who don’t, according to startling new research led by SHP's David Studdert.
Stanford Health Policy’s Jason Wang and colleagues will ask volunteers to fly to Taiwan to test whether quarantine periods might safely be shortened — and help travelers become less wary of taking to the skies.
Jay Bhattacharya has been studying results of COVID-19 blood tests of thousands of employees of Major League Baseball. Preliminary results indicate that just 0.7% of the employees from the MLB’s 30 teams were positive for COVID-19 antibodies — lower than the results from earlier studies.
Many countries have taken digital epidemiology to the next level in responding to COVID-19. Focusing on core public health functions of case detection, contact tracing, and isolation and quarantine, the authors the explore ethical concerns raised by digital technologies and new data sources in public health surveillance during epidemics.
Stanford postdoc Ashley Styczynski will investigate the epidemiology behind the alarmingly high rate of stillbirths in Bangladesh while helping prepare for the coming onslaught of coronavirus in the densely populated South Asian nation.
An estimated 4.1 million people in the United States are carrying HCV antibodies; about 2.4 million are living with the virus, according to the US Preventive Services Task Force.
