Featured Publications

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A Global Analysis of Within-Country Health Inequalities

Eran Bendavid and Grant Miller compare health inequalities in the US with 180 countries. In a study in JAMA Health Forum, they found that while global life expectancy inequality has declined since 1960, the US lags behind other high-income countries.

JAMA Health Forum Study

Unhappy With Your Health Insurance? Employer May Not Care

Although 58% of Americans rely on employer-sponsored health insurance, US corporations do surprisingly little to improve health-care options for their employees, according to research by GSB Professors Jeffrey Pfeffer and Sara Singer.

Go to GSB Story on the Research Papers

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette and Josh Salomon, Stanford University

Strategies to Address Harms of Market-Driven Drug Development

Stanford Law’s Lisa Larrimore Ouellette and SHP’s Josh Salomon co-author report to address a persistent flaw in the U.S. health system: prioritizing treatment investment based on market potential rather than medical necessity.

Go to NASEM Report

Fatal Trade-Off: Land Allotment Policy Raised Native American Death Rates

Grant Miller & Matt Snipp reveal that a 19th-century federal program gave Native Americans land and citizenship, but had devastating consequences.

PNAS Research Article

Foreign Aid Sanctions Set Back Decades of Progress on Maternal, Child Mortality

Ruth Gibson and Paul Wise analyze three decades foreign aid sanctions to assess impact on health. They hope the work can help government officials better understand and address how foreign policy decisions affect the well-being of local populations.

Lancet Global Health Article

Publications

Journal Articles

Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2016

Journal Articles

It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it: Communicating Nipah virus prevention messages during an outbreak in Bangladesh

BMC Public Health, 2016

Journal Articles

Cost-Effectiveness of Percutaneous Closure of the Left Atrial Appendage in Atrial Fibrillation Based on Results From PROTECT AF Versus PREVAIL

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 2016

Working Papers

A Global Analysis of Within-Country Health Inequalities

Unhappy With Your Health Insurance? Employer May Not Care

Strategies to Address Harms of Market-Driven Drug Development

Fatal Trade-Off: Land Allotment Policy Raised Native American Death Rates

Foreign Aid Sanctions Set Back Decades of Progress on Maternal, Child Mortality

The Epidemiologic Challenge to the Conduct of Just War: Confronting Indirect Civilian Casualties of War

Screening for Colorectal Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Breast density notification legislation and breast cancer stage at diagnosis: early evidence from the SEER registry

Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Prevalence and Predictors of Malnutrition among Guatemalan Children at 2 Years of Age

Sources of variation in under-5 mortality across sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial analysis

Association of a Bundled-Payment Program With Cost and Outcomes in Full-Cycle Breast Cancer Care

Geographic variation in surgical outcomes and cost between the United States and Japan

Cost-effectiveness of improvements in diagnosis and treatment accessibility for tuberculosis control in India

The weaker sex? Vulnerable men and women's resilience to socio-economic disadvantage

Predicting inpatient clinical order patterns with probabilistic topic models vs conventional order sets

Outcomes of notifications to health practitioner boards: a retrospective cohort study

Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it: Communicating Nipah virus prevention messages during an outbreak in Bangladesh

Risk selection and heterogeneous preferences in health insurance markets with a public option

Test Case Selection in Pre-Deployment Testing of Complex Clinical Decision Support Systems

Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis for People Who Inject Drugs in the United States

Effect of Transplant Center Volume on Cost and Readmissions in Medicare Lung Transplant Recipients

Quality Indicator Development for Positive Screen Follow-up for Sickle Cell Disease and Trait

Cost-Effectiveness of Percutaneous Closure of the Left Atrial Appendage in Atrial Fibrillation Based on Results From PROTECT AF Versus PREVAIL

Private Provision of Social Insurance: Drug-Specific Price Elasticities and Cost Sharing in Medicare Part D

Teamwork and Moral Hazard: Evidence from the Emergency Department

Abstinence Funding Was Not Associated with Reductions in HIV Risk Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa

Why do Patients Forget to Take Immunosuppression Medications and Miss Appointments: Can a Mobile Phone App Help?

Postoperative Complications in Pediatric Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy in Ambulatory vs Inpatient Settings