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Keith Humphreys Wins VA Under Secretary Award for Outstanding Health Services Research
July 2022
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs awards Keith Humphreys top honors for his research on treatments for substance use and psychiatric disorders.
The Biden Administration’s Abortion Care Guidance
July 2022
In this Q&A with Stephanie Ashe at Stanford Law, SHP's Michelle Mello — a professor of health policy and a professor of law — examines the guidance for health-care providers recently issued...
Undergraduate Fellows Conduct Health Policy Research with SHP Faculty
July 2022
After a two-year pandemic hiatus, our Stanford undergraduate fellows are back on campus, spending their summer working with Stanford Health Policy faculty on research and projects. All four are...
Protecting Reproductive Health Information after Fall of Roe v. Wade
June 2022
Michelle Mello writes that the overturning of Roe v. Wade — ending federal protection over a woman's right to an abortion — could also expose her personal health data in court.
Preparing US Quarantine Stations for the Next Pandemic
June 2022
Stanford Medicine's Jason Wang and Michele Barry sit on an expert committee of the National Academies examining ways the CDC's national quarantine network can better prepare for the next...
Investigation Into the ‘Dirty List’ of Slave Labor in Brazil Focus of Prize-Winning Thesis
June 2022
Maria Clara Rodrigues worked with SHP's Grant Miller at the Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab to uncover ways in which politically connected predators of human trafficking often avoid...
The Lasting Impact of School Shootings on Those Who Survive Them
May 2022
Maya Rossin-Slater and colleagues write in The Conversation that their research shows survivors of school shootings like the one in Uvalde, Texas, suffer long-term health, economic and financial...
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...
How Has Africa Largely Evaded the COVID-19 Pandemic?
April 2022
SHP master's student Tofunmi Omiye looked at why so few Africans have been hit by the coronavirus compared to the rest of the world. He recently presented this conundrum at Stanford’s 8th Annual...
Does Free Speech Protect COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation?
April 2022
While some might say making or spreading known false statements related to the COVID-19 vaccine should be criminalized, the First Amendment, which guarantees free speech, continues to provide...
Education Level Will Widen Disparity in Health Outcomes of the Future Elderly Population, New Study Projects
April 2022
In the first study to compare the progression of educational disparities in disability across two rapidly aging Asian societies, APARC coauthors Cynthia Chen and Karen Eggleston project that from...
Californians Living with Handgun Owners Twice as Likely to Die by Homicide
April 2022
In the largest cohort study of its kind, research led by SHP's David Studdert and Yifan Zhang shows that people living with handgun owners are significantly more likely to die by homicide...
Pursuing Equity in Pharmacology for Black Patients
March 2022
Our recent Health Equity Lecture was given Dr. Utibe Essien, who is on a mission to ensure patients — regardless of race, ethnicity or socioeconomic status — have access to the highest-quality...
Paul Wise in Poland to Help Child Cancer Patients Fleeing Ukraine
March 2022
SHP's Paul Wise returns from Poland where he was helping coordinate the evacuation of child cancer patients from Ukraine in an effort to get them to appropriate medical care facilities in other...
A Commentary on Countering Faulty Science Wins Award
March 2022
Michelle Mello and Stanford colleagues win an annual award by the ABIM Foundation for a commentary that argued academics have an obligation to speak out against medical views that are contrary to...
Adversity and Opportunity—The Pandemic’s Paradoxical Effect on Child Health and Well-Being
March 2022
In this JAMA Pediatrics commentary, Paul Wise and Lisa Chamberlain write the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered emergency policy responses that have cut through years of muddled inaction on issues...
CA Prison Staff Have Lower Vaccine Rates Than Those They Oversee
March 2022
Prisons and jails are high-risk environments for the spread of COVID-19, but many California prison staff are declining to be vaccinated even as new variants threaten another U.S. surge.
The Real Benefits of Paid Family Leave
March 2022
Paid family leave is not a “silver bullet” for advancing gender equity in the workplace, says Maya Rossin-Slater, but it is beneficial for family health and well-being outcomes, particularly infant...
U.S. Public Health Law — Foundations and Emerging Shifts
February 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the complex and sometimes conflicting relationship between individual rights and public health protection.
SHP Profs Weave Pandemic into Their Bing Overseas Classes
February 2022
Stanford Health Policy's Mark Hlatky and Loren Baker spent the Fall term teaching Stanford students in Florence and Paris. They tell us how they weaved COVID into their classes — and what it was...
Veterans Rushed to VA Hospitals Have Significantly Better Outcomes
February 2022
New research led by Stanford Health Policy's David Chan and David Studdert finds that veterans rushed by ambulance to VA hospitals have significantly higher survival rates than veterans...
Chronic Kidney Disease Now Has Powerful, Cost-Effective Treatment
February 2022
Chronic kidney disease affects one-in-seven adults and is the ninth leading cause of death in the United States. A new Stanford-led study now provides clinicians with a powerful, cost-effective...
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