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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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Protecting the lives of children in Gaza and other conflicts requires changes to the rules of engagement and global responses to all conflicts affecting civilian populations, argue Zulfiqar Bhutta, Georgia Dominguez, and Paul Wise.

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Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Georgia B. Dominguez
Paul H. Wise
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Dan Zeltzer visiting scholar at Stanford

Dan Zeltzer is currently a Koret Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and SIEPR, Stanford University (2023-2024), and a Senior Lecturer with tenure at The Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University. Zeltzer's research explores the intersections of Health Economics, Networks, and Machine Learning. His scholarly contributions include telemedicine, digital health technologies, end-of-life spending, and physician networks as moderators of technology diffusion and gender homophily in patient referrals. Zeltzer received his BSc in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University and completed his PhD in Economics at Princeton University.

Talk Abstract: This seminar will feature three papers examining the impacts of enhanced access to health care through telemedicine and urgent care centers. Utilizing Israeli data, the first two papers explore how the adoption of telemedicine and its augmentation with digital devices affect healthcare utilization and cost. The third paper investigates how the entry of urgent care centers into local markets influences primary care utilization and antibiotics prescribing for Medicare beneficiaries. Together, these studies provide insights into the impacts of healthcare delivery innovations on care provision, utilization, and costs.

Here are links to the first two papers (the third paper, Urgent Care Center Entry and Antibiotics Prescribing is still in draft:

The Impact of Increased Access to Telemedicine

Adoption and Utilization of Device-Assisted Telemedicine

 

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Professor (by courtesy) of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business
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Dr. Schulman serves as Professor of Medicine, Associate Chair of Business Development and Strategy in the Department of Medicine, Director of Industry Partnerships and Education for the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and, by courtesy, Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He is the Director of Stanford's master’s degree program, the Master of Science in Clinical Informatics Management.

Dr. Schulman’s research interests include organizational innovation in health care, health care policy and health economics. With over 500 publications, Kevin Schulman has had a broad impact on health policy. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Annals of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the editorial/advisory boards of the American Heart Journal, Editor in Chief of Health Policy, Management and Innovation (www.HMPI.Org), and Senior Associate Editor of Health Services Research.

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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
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Dr. Grummon is an Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Grummon is a behavioral scientist whose work seeks to identify and evaluate policies that encourage healthy eating and help children and their families live long, healthy lives. In her work, Dr. Grummon uses randomized trials, natural experiments, and simulation modeling to examine how food policies like warning labels, beverage taxes, and food assistance programs affect what we eat and how healthy we are. She also studies strategies for encouraging people to choose foods that are more environmentally sustainable. Dr. Grummon's program of research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and others. Her work has been published in leading medical and public health journals including JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Science, and the American Journal of Public Health and received coverage in news outlets such as the Washington Post, NBC, NPR, and Forbes.

Dr. Grummon holds a PhD and MSPH in Health Behavior from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and a BA with Honors in Human Biology from Stanford. She completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard.

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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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