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Health policy
Scholarly Publications
An Impact-Oriented Approach to Epidemiological Modeling
September 2020
Epidemiological modeling has emerged as a crucial tool to help decision-makers combat COVID-19, with calls for non-pharmaceutical interventions such as stay-at-home orders and the wearing of masks....
Modeling Contact Tracing Strategies for COVID-19 in the Context of Relaxed Physical Distancing Measures
August 2020
Stanford Health Policy’s Joshua Salomon, a professor of medicine and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and colleagues developed a mathematical model to...
Hepatitis C Treatment in Prisons — Incarcerated People’s Uncertain Right to Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy
August 2020
In a recent perspective published by the New England Journal of Medicine(NEJM), Stanford Law student Alexandra Daniels analyzed a growing body of federal litigation brought by prisoners with the...
Other Publications
Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response
July 2020
Yet there has been no national-level, comprehensive review of the evidence for public health emergency preparedness and response (PHEPR) practices.
How to Safely Reopen Colleges and Universities During COVID-19: Experiences From Taiwan
July 2020
Reopening colleges and universities during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a special challenge worldwide.
Coronavirus Could Make America’s Gun Problem Even Deadlier
June 2020
Millions of Americans have experienced the coronavirus pandemic directly, as they or their loved ones suffered through infection.
News
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...
Rosenkranz Prize Winner: Infectious Diseases Physician Examines High Stillborn Incidence in Bangladesh, Helps With COVID-19 Preparedness
April 2020
Stanford postdoc Ashley Styczynski will investigate the epidemiology behind the alarmingly high rate of stillbirths in Bangladesh while helping prepare for the coming onslaught of coronavirus in the...
Events
Title TBA - Prashant Bharadwaj (UCSD)
September 15, 2020
Title: TBA Prashant Bharadwaj University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego.
The Value of Improving Insurance Quality: Evidence from Long-Run Medicaid Attrition
September 15, 2020
Title: The Value of Improving Insurance Quality: Evidence from Long-Run Medicaid Attrition Dr. Ajin Lee Assisstant Professor of Economics Michigan State University Main fields of interest are...
Fernando Alarid-Escudero - Seminar: Modeling Gastric Cancer Into The 21st Century
February 10, 2020
Title: Modeling Gastric Cancer Into The 21st Century Dr.
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.
English
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.
English
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 
