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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...
Far More Transparency is Needed for COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
November 2020
With vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, on the near-term horizon, U.S. policymakers are focusing on how to ensure that Americans get vaccinated.
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Preventing Preterm Deliveries Using a Digital Approach
December 2021
SHP researchers awarded grant to continue their clinical trial testing out a digital app they hope will prevent preterm births.
Rosenkranz Prize Winner Leads Effort to Protect Health-Care Workers from COVID-19 in Under-Resourced Countries
August 2020
Stanford postdoc Ashley Styczynski and collaborators build a website devoted to protecting health-care workers in under-resourced countries, using infographics and videos to show them how to create,...
Owning Handgun Associated With Dramatically Higher Risk of Suicide
June 2020
Men who own handguns are eight times more likely to die of suicide by handgun than men who don’t have one — and women who own handguns are 35 times more likely than women who don’t, according to...
Events
Stanford Health Policy's Health Equity Panel
October 29, 2021
Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Committee SHP’s inaugural Health Equity Panel will take place on Friday, October 29, 2021 from 12pm – 1:15pm.
Projects
Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging
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Physician Response to Productivity Incentives
There has been much policy debate about paying physicians by salary or compensating them for the work that they do.
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Automated performance metrics for quality improvement in complex chronic disease
As the population of older adults in the US increases, there is a growing need for performance measurement systems that take multiple comorbid conditions into account.
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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.
People
Stefanos A. Zenios Professor, Operations, Information and Technology, Professor, Health Care Management 
