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Health Care
Scholarly Publications
School Reopenings and the Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic
October 2020
Few issues in the policy response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have inspired as impassioned debate as school reopening.
Video Consultations in Primary and Specialist Care During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
October 2020
Even before the covid-19 pandemic, virtual consultations (also called telemedicine consultations) were on the rise, with many healthcare systems advocating a digital-first approach. At the start of...
Initial Economic Damage From the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Is More Widespread Across Ages and Geographies Than Initial Mortality Impacts
October 2020
Abstract The economic and mortality impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been widely discussed, but there is limited evidence on their relationship across demographic and geographic groups.
Other Publications
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.
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
Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?
March 2020
Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude, Stanford Health Policy's Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya write in this editorial published in the Wall...
SHP faculty to Teach Students How To Build COVID-19 Mathematical Projection Models for Policymakers
March 2020
Stanford Health Policy's Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert and Stanford Medicine's Jason Andrews will be teaching a class for Stanford undergrads and graduate students on how to build mathematical models to...
Michelle Mello Answers Questions About the Federal Rollout of the Coronavirus Test
March 2020
We asked Stanford Health Policy's Michelle Mello — a professor of medicine and law — to answer some questions about the federal rollout of diagnostic testing for the coronavirus.
Events
Research in Progress: Doug Owens - Development of the New USPSTF Guidelines on Screening for Lung Cancer and Colorectal Cancer
January 4, 2021
Title: Research in Progress: Doug Owens - Development of the New USPSTF Guidelines on Screening for Lung Cancer and Colorectal Cancer Brief Abstract: Discuss the development of the two new draft...
Research in Progress: Is Preference for Gender Concordance Good in Patient-Provider Relationships?
November 6, 2020
Title: Is Preference for Gender Concordance Good in Patient-Provider Relationships?
Women Left Behind: Gender Inequality Within Rajasthan's Health Insurance Program
October 13, 2020
Title: Women Left Behind: Gender Inequality Within Rajasthan's Health Insurance Program Radhika Jain Asia Health Policy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Shorenstein APARC Working with Karen Eggleston...
Projects
Guatemala Rural Child Health and Nutrition Program
The primary goal of the Guatemala Rural Child Health and Nutrition Program is to use the capacities of Stanford University to save young children’s lives in Guatemala and other areas of the world...
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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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Smart Agents to Reduce the Parent Health Literacy Burden in the Care of the Children with Medical Complexity
(Partner: Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Science) This inter-disciplinary project addresses two formidable health care realities: the growing number of patients with chronic...
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People
Stefanos A. Zenios Professor, Operations, Information and Technology, Professor, Health Care Management 
