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Legal Look at Proof of Vaccination & Ongoing Fight Against COVID-19
Stanford health law experts Michelle Mello and David Studdert discuss the ongoing pandemic, proof of vaccination “passports” at the state and federal levels, and a July 19 ruling that Indiana...
Contact-tracing App Curbed the Spread of COVID in England and Wales
Digital contact tracing has the potential to limit the spread of COVID-19. A contact-tracing smartphone app that has been readily adopted by people in England and Wales has shown efficacy in...
News
SHP Welcomes 2 New Knight-Hennessy Scholars to PhD Program
May 2022
The new Knight-Hennessy Scholars are both working toward improving health equity here at home and around the world.
Missed diagnoses: Study highlights the importance of physician skills in health care
May 2022
Research by David Chan and Matthew Gentzkow points to how much diagnostic skills matter in patient care and how policies to boost skills can improve health care efficiency.
Health Policy PhD Candidate Vincent Jappah Overcomes Childhood Amid Civil War Through His Determination To Get an Education
May 2022
From education in displaced persons camps to working on his PhD at Stanford Health Policy, Vincent Jappah is applying his childhood experiences during the civil war in his native Liberia toward a...
Old Events
Health Economics Seminar with Amanda Starc: Does Entry Remedy Collusion? Evidence from the Generic Prescription Drug Cartel
March 14, 2022
Amanda Starc, Ph.D.
Research Seminar with Adrienne Sabety — The ActionHealthNYC Experiment: Providing Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants
February 4, 2022
Adrienne Sabety, PhD, is a Wilson Family LEO Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame.
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).
