eran bendavid

Eran Bendavid, MD, MS

  • Associate Professor of Medicine
  • Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
  • Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment

Encina Commons, Room 102,
615 Crothers Way,
Stanford, CA 94305-6019

(650) 723-0984 (voice)
(650) 723-1919 (fax)

Biography

Eran Bendavid is an infectious diseases physician and an Associate Professor of Medicine. He is affiliated with Stanford Health Policy, the Center for Population Health Sciences, the Woods Institute for the Environment, and the division of Infectious Diseases. His research interests involve understanding the relationship between large-scale events such as policy changes or environmental shocks and health outcomes among populations, mostly in less-resourced communities. Major areas of interest include decisions around foreign assistance for health, and how those decisions affect the health of those whom assistance aims to serve; the indirect population health effects of extreme events, including wars and natural disasters; effects of policies on life course for boys and girls such as schooling or parental investments; and the downwind consequences of air pollution, including in highly polluted areas such as Western Africa as well as wildfires in the American West.  Dr. Bendavid is also a disease modeler, and uses that skill to explore issues of resource allocation in low and middle-income countries for the control of infectious diseases.

He received a B.A. in chemistry and philosophy from Dartmouth College, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. His residency in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases were completed at Stanford.

In The News

San Francisco Wildfires -- Getty Images
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California Emergency Department Visits During Wildfire Smoke Events

Eran Bendavid and his Stanford colleagues examine how often Californians visit emergency departments (ED) and found that, surprisingly, people tend to avoid the hospital on the smokiest days.
California Emergency Department Visits During Wildfire Smoke Events
A child suffering from malnutrition in South Sudan
Q&As

5 Questions for Eran Bendavid on Global Food Insecurity

The Center for Innovation in Global Health speaks with Bendavid about which populations are most vulnerable to malnutrition and food insecurity driven by poverty, climate change, and natural disasters — as well as the increasing role that conflicts and politics play in access to food.
5 Questions for Eran Bendavid on Global Food Insecurity
Syrian Refugees sitting in front of tent
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Tackling the Health of Women and Children in Global Conflict Settings

A new four-paper series in The Lancet exposes the far-reaching effects of modern warfare on women’s and children’s health. Stanford researchers, including SHP's Paul Wise and Eran Bendavid, have joined other academics and health-care experts in calling for an international commitment from humanitarian actors and donors to confront political and security challenges.
Tackling the Health of Women and Children in Global Conflict Settings
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