Health Policy Forum: In Conversation

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Health Policy Forum: In Conversation

A Stanford Health Policy podcast with faculty, researchers, and policy experts on the questions defining health policy today.

Paul Costello is a global health faculty fellow, adjunct faculty in the Stanford Department of Medicine and the former chief communications officer in the School of Medicine. He also moderates our on-campus Health Policy Forum lecture series.

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Our research spans global health, health and the law, technology, public health, the design of health-care systems and maternal and child health. Our aim is to improve health throughout better health policy. This podcast complements the Stanford Health Policy Forum, an ongoing series of in-person discussions designed to inform public debate about major health policy issue.

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_{In our inaugural episode, host Paul Costello and Stanford professor of health policy and of law, Michelle Mello, discuss the reality of AI in health care vs. the media hype over agentic AI.}

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Stanford Health Policy Forum

The Health Policy Forum ecosystem brings you insights from two distinct vantage points. On our stage at the Forum seminar, you get live, interactive discussions and strategies. The Forum podcast gives you the raw, unfiltered conversations behind those strategies. Here is a sampling of the in-person events.

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Engineered Threats to Global Health

Stanford experts David Relman, MD, and Hank Greely, JD, examine the global health risks of engineered pathogens—and how to safeguard the public without stalling synthetic biology’s therapeutic promise.

Vaccines and Public Health in an Era of Distrust

Stanford Medicine’s Grace Lee, MD, professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases and Heidi Larson, PhD, professor of anthropology, risk and decision at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, discuss the future of vaccines and public health in an era of widespread distrust.

The Future of Health Care Financing

Jim Wood, Assemblymember, California State Assembly, 2nd District, and Liran Einav, Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, Stanford University, have a high-stakes discussion about the staggering cost of U.S. health-care spending while private equity is increasingly its role in health-care finance.

The Cost of Cancer

Stacie B. Dusetzina, PhD, professor health policy and Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and SHP’s Alyce Adams, PhD, MPP, professor of health policy, epidemiology and population health at Stanford Medicine, have a personal conversation about the high cost of cancer care, which leaves many patients having to choose between health and bankruptcy.