Health and Medicine

FSI’s researchers assess health and medicine through the lenses of economics, nutrition and politics. They’re studying and influencing public health policies of local and national governments and the roles that corporations and nongovernmental organizations play in providing health care around the world. Scholars look at how governance affects citizens’ health, how children’s health care access affects the aging process and how to improve children’s health in Guatemala and rural China. They want to know what it will take for people to cook more safely and breathe more easily in developing countries.

FSI professors investigate how lifestyles affect health. What good does gardening do for older Americans? What are the benefits of eating organic food or growing genetically modified rice in China? They study cost-effectiveness by examining programs like those aimed at preventing the spread of tuberculosis in Russian prisons. Policies that impact obesity and undernutrition are examined; as are the public health implications of limiting salt in processed foods and the role of smoking among men who work in Chinese factories. FSI health research looks at sweeping domestic policies like the Affordable Care Act and the role of foreign aid in affecting the price of HIV drugs in Africa.

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Dr. Wise is the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society and Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Wise is also a Senior Fellow in the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. He is also co-Director of the March of Dimes Center for Prematurity Research at Stanford University.

Dr. Wise’s research focuses on health inequalities, child health policy, and global child health. He leads a multidisciplinary initiative, Children in Crisis, which is directed at integrating expertise in political science, security, and health services in areas of civil conflict and unstable governance.
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Nathan Lo is a Faculty Fellow in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). His research group studies the transmission of infectious diseases with an ultimate goal of informing public health policy. Dr. Lo's research blends diverse computational methodologies, including tools of simulation modeling, decision analysis, machine learning, and microbial genomics. He received a BS in Bioengineering from Rice University and MD/PhD from Stanford University and did his clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at UCSF.
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Jonathan Jackson, PhD, is the executive director of the Community Access, Recruitment, and Engagement (CARE) Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Jonathan’s research focuses on inequities in clinical settings that affect marginalized populations, and he has received generous funding for this work, including a prestigious NIH Pioneer Award in 2020.
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Eilidh Geddes is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics from Northwestern University. Her work focuses on health economics, industrial organization, and applied microeconomics with a focus on markets with price regulations. In her dissertation, she investigates community rating in health insurance markets where firms may change entry behavior in response to market-level price discrimination regulation. She additionally studies the supply side effects of health insurance expansions and the effects of rent control.

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Atheendar Venkataramani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and a staff physician at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Venkataramani is a health economist who studies the life-course origins of health and socioeconomic inequality. His research, which combines insights from economics, epidemiology, and clinical medicine, spans both domestic and international settings.

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Natalia Serna is a Ph.D candidate in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her main research interests are in the intersection of industrial organization and health economics. In her latest paper, she studies the impact of risk selection on the breadth of hospital networks. Her future research agenda will further study cost-sharing, consumer inertia, and market power in health insurance, as well as government regulation of health service prices and medications.

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Dr. Natalia Kunst is a decision sciences and health economics researcher who focuses on applying decision-analytic and statistical methods in cancer, genetics and precision medicine to assess and identify efficient strategies that would improve patients’ health outcomes, and to design and prioritize clinical research in limited-resource settings, also focusing on health disparities. Dr. Kunst is a Senior Advisor at the Norwegian Directorate of Health. Additionally, part of her time is dedicated to teaching and research as an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Health Economics at the University of Oslo, Norway.


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Andrew Olenski is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Columbia University. His research on health care delivery and physician decision-making has been featured in many outlets, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. In his dissertation, he studies the nursing home industry, using modern methods to measure provider quality, and examining the health consequences and policy implications of the recent wave of nursing home closures.
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J'Mag Karbeah, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She is a health services researcher whose research aims to interrogate and dismantle the impact of structural racism by focusing on maternal and child health issues. Her program of research leverages theories and methods from population health science as well as health services research to identify the complex and multidimensional ways through which racism impacts health. Her scholarship aims to build an empirical body of research that identifies how structural racism impacts maternal, infant, and child health outcomes. Her experience conducting mixed-method and community-based participatory research guides her scholarship.

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Michelle Mello is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. She conducts empirical research into issues at the intersection of law, ethics, and health policy. Dr. Mello teaches courses in torts, public health law, and health policy. She holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.Phil. from Oxford University, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. from Stanford University.
Michelle Mello

 

 

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