Featured Publications

Addressing Financial Toxicity in Cancer Care Through Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) Policy

This policy brief by Alyce Adams and Mateen Ghassemi examines the financial burden experienced by cancer patients and their families, impacting around half of cancer survivors.

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International Comparison of Physician Incomes

Stanford Health Policy’s Maria Polyakova, PhD, and colleagues set out to measure how much doctors earn and, crucially, where their incomes fall within the overall income rankings of four wealthy countries: the US, Canada, Sweden, and the Netherlands

NBER Paper

Public Preschool Aids in Developmental, Learning-Related Diagnoses

New research by SIEPR and SHP scholars Adrienne Sabety and Maya Rossin-Slater shows how early exposure to public preschool benefits low-income children with behavioral and developmental conditions.

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Study Finds Gaza Violent Death Toll Likely 35% Higher Than Official Estimates

A Study by Eran Bendavid in The Lancet Global Health finds the number of violent deaths in the Gaza Strip in the first year of the conflict with Israel was underreported

The Lancet Global Health Study

Promoting Fairness in Screening Programs for Late-Career Practitioners

SHP's Michelle Mello argues there are late-career physician programs that can balance patient safety with procedural fairness.

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Guidance for Clinicians Navigating Conflicting Vaccination Recommendations

SHP’s Michelle Mello and former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky offer recommendations to clinicians struggling to follow new vaccine guidelines.

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Post COVID-19 Hypertension: A Longitudinal Study of 40,000 Incarcerated Adults

SHP researchers and colleagues at the California Correctional Health Care Services find that COVID-19 is associated with significant increases in hypertension incidence in the large, racially and ethnically diverse prison population.

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When AI Algorithms Decide Whether Your Insurance Will Cover Your Care

In this Health Affairs study, Stanford researchers examine the promises of efficiency and risks of supercharged flaws in the race to use artificial intelligence in health care.

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Publications

The 2016 California Policy to Eliminate Nonmedical Vaccine Exemptions and Changes in Vaccine Coverage: An Empirical Policy Analysis

PLOS Medicine , 2019

Poverty and Community-Acquired Antimicrobial Resistance with Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Organisms, Hyderabad, India

Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, 2018

Journal Articles

Addressing Financial Toxicity in Cancer Care Through Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) Policy

International Comparison of Physician Incomes

Public Preschool Aids in Developmental, Learning-Related Diagnoses

Study Finds Gaza Violent Death Toll Likely 35% Higher Than Official Estimates

Promoting Fairness in Screening Programs for Late-Career Practitioners

Guidance for Clinicians Navigating Conflicting Vaccination Recommendations

Post COVID-19 Hypertension: A Longitudinal Study of 40,000 Incarcerated Adults

When AI Algorithms Decide Whether Your Insurance Will Cover Your Care

How to Safely Reopen Colleges and Universities During COVID-19: Experiences From Taiwan

Ensuring Uptake of Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2

Coronavirus Could Make America’s Gun Problem Even Deadlier

Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California

Ethics and Governance for Digital Disease Surveillance

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally — The U.S. Response to Covid-19

How to Prevent and Manage Hospital-Based Infections During Coronavirus Outbreaks: Five Lessons from Taiwan

Examining Pharmaceutical Benefits in the United States—A Framework

Federal Funding For State And Local Contact Tracing Efforts Is An Urgent Priority, And A Bargain

Privileges and Immunity Certification During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Provider Discretion and Variation in Resource Allocation: The Case of Triage Decisions

Standing Up against Gender Bias and Harassment — A Matter of Professional Ethics

Diagnostic Testing for the Novel Coronavirus

Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan Big Data Analytics, New Technology, and Proactive Testing

Cost-Effectiveness of Transitional Care Services After Hospitalization With Heart Failure

The 2016 California Policy to Eliminate Nonmedical Vaccine Exemptions and Changes in Vaccine Coverage: An Empirical Policy Analysis

Catherine Lei CV

Estimation of global insulin use for type 2 diabetes, 2018–30: a microsimulation analysis

The fog of development: evaluating the Millennium Villages Project

Anesthesia Care Team Composition and Surgical Outcomes

Cost Effectiveness of Radiation and Chemotherapy for High-Risk Low Grade Glioma

Poverty and Community-Acquired Antimicrobial Resistance with Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Organisms, Hyderabad, India

ACA Marketplace Premiums and Competition Among Hospitals and Physician Practices

Robust relationship between air quality and infant mortality in Africa

Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland