Stanford Health Policy is a joint effort of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford School of Medicine
Scholarly Publications
Estimation of global insulin use for type 2 diabetes, 2018–30: a microsimulation analysis
November 2018
Background:The amount of insulin needed to effectively treat type 2 diabetes worldwide is unknown.
Anesthesia Care Team Composition and Surgical Outcomes
August 2018
The adjusted mortality for care teams with anesthesiologist assistants was 1.6% (95% CI, 1.4 to 1.8) versus 1.7% for care teams with nurse anesthetists (95% CI, 1.7 to 1.7; difference −0.08; 95% CI...
The fog of development: evaluating the Millennium Villages Project
August 2018
Shira Mitchell and colleagues' endline evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in The Lancet Global Health marks an important chapter in our understanding of Africa’s meandering path...
Other Publications
Medical Liability — Prospects for Federal Reform
March 2017
Medical malpractice reform appears to be back on the federal policy agenda.
The Grand Divergence in Global Child Health: Confronting Data Requirements in Areas of Conflict and Chronic Political Instability
March 2016
There is something deeply troubling about a death that goes unnoticed.
Shifting Vaccination Politics — The End of Personal-Belief Exemptions in California
July 2015
Stanford Health Policy's David Studdert and Michelle Mello discuss SB 277, a new California law that ends exceptions to vaccination mandates based on religious and philosophical beliefs, leaving...
News
Choice of Medicare drug plan reduces opioid use
December 2018
New research by a trio of Stanford scholars shows how different insurance strategies affect the volume of opioid use and could help stem inappropriate prescribing behaviors.
A glimmer of hope in the opioid epidemic among patients with musculoskeletal pain
December 2018
In new research by Health Research and Policy’s Eric Sun, the risk for chronic opioid use among patients with musculoskeletal pain actually decreased slightly between 2008 and 2014.
Paul Wise: Yemen's cholera epidemic hits children hardest
December 2018
Since 2016, two severe cholera outbreaks have impacted more than 1.2 million people. Children account for 30 percent of the infections; more than 2,500 people have died.
Events
Research in Progress: David Studdert
May 10, 2019
David Studdert, LLB, ScD, MPHProfessor of MedicineProfessor of LawStanford UniversityDavid M. Studdert is a leading expert in the fields of health law and empirical legal research.
Research in Progress: Gillian Sanders-Schmidler
April 12, 2019
Gillian Sanders-Schmidler, PhDProfessor of MedicineDuke Clinical Research Institute, Duke UniversityDr. Gillian D.
Research in Progress: Eric Sun
January 15, 2019
Eric Sun, MD, PhDAssistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative MedicineEric Sun received his PhD in business economics from the University of Chicago Booth...
Projects
Pigs and Parasites: Developing Interventions to End Cycles of Poverty Caused by Taenia solium and Neurocysticercosis
Neurocysticercosis is a neglected infectious disease caused by larval forms of the pig tapeworm, Taenia solium, infecting people's brains.
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Reducing lead exposure among residents of Bangladesh
Lead is a potent neurotoxin that irreversibly impairs child cognitive development.
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Children in Crisis
Improving the Provision of Human Services in Areas of Conflict, Political Instability and Weak Governance
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Multimedia
Grant Miller: The team approach to international heatlh
January 2016
Grant Miller, associate professor of medicine, has been working to help residents of a state in India access micro nutrients that they are lacking.
Jay Bhattacharya discusses health and aging
September 2015
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of Medicine and a CHP/PCOR core faculty member, speaks about the Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging (CDEHA).
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