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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.

Stanford Health Policy Seminar: Natalia Kunst

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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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Hybrid Seminar: Lunch will be provided for on-campus participants. 
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615 Crothers Way 
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Stanford Health Policy Seminar: Andrew Olenski

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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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Hybrid Seminar: Lunch will be provided for on-campus participants. 
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Health Equity Lecture Series — Exploring Police Contact as a Structural Determinant of Health Inequity

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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.

Sherri Rose

 

 

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William J. Perry Conference Room
Encina Hall, 2nd Floor
616 Jane Stanford Way
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Lectures

Stanford Health Policy Seminar: Michelle Mello

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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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Stanford Health Policy Seminar: Kevin Schulman

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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 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.
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This will be a presentation of work-in-progress, with questions and feedback solicited throughout the talk. 

 

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Hybrid Seminar: Lunch will be provided for on-campus participants. 
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Stanford Health Policy Seminar: Rita Hamad

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Dr. Rita Hamad is a social epidemiologist and family physician in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Family & Community Medicine at UCSF. She is the director of the Social Policies for Health Equity Research Program (https://sphere.ucsf.edu). Her research focuses on the pathways linking social factors like poverty and education with racial and socioeconomic disparities in health across the life course. In particular, she studies the health effects of social and economic policies using interdisciplinary quasi-experimental methods to generate actionable evidence to inform policymaking.
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Stanford Health Policy Seminar: Keith Humphreys

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Keith Humphreys is the Esther Ting Memorial Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Research Career Scientist at the VA Health Services Research Center in Palo Alto and an Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London. His research addresses the prevention and treatment of addictive disorders, the formation of public policy and the extent to which subjects in medical research differ from patients seen in everyday clinical practice.
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Hybrid Seminar: Lunch will be provided for on-campus participants. 
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Stanford Health Policy Seminar: Eran Bendavid

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Eran Bendavid is an infectious diseases physician and an Associate Professor of Medicine. He is affiliated with Stanford Health Policy, the Center for Population Health Sciences, the Woods Institute for the Environment, and the division of Infectious Diseases. He received a B.A. in chemistry and philosophy from Dartmouth College, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. His residency in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases were completed at Stanford.
eran bendavid

 

This will be a presentation of work-in-progress, with questions and feedback solicited throughout the talk. 

 

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Hybrid Seminar: Lunch will be provided for on-campus participants. 
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Naina Singh

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Naina Singh is a Health Services Research Fellow with the VA Ci2i. She earned a B.S. in Biochemistry at the University of California Los Angeles and an M.D. at the University of California Davis School of Medicine. As a hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) physician, she aims to improve HPM resources and utilization for all patients. She is interested in palliative care utilization in the Veteran population and understanding barriers/facilitators to improving Veteran quality of life. Naina enjoys singing and playing the piano. She also loves reading for fun -- she might devour a whole novel in 2 days if she loves it enough! She is a self-proclaimed home chef, and is sure her family will attest to that (because they have to!).

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Shernaz Dossabhoy

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow Alumni, Health Policy
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Dr. Shernaz Dossabhoy is a second-year AHRQ T32 postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Health Policy and vascular surgery resident at Stanford Healthcare. She received her BA in German and Chemistry from Wellesley College, MS/MBA dual degree in Biomedical Science and Healthcare Management at Tufts University School of Medicine and Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy and Management, and MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Dossabhoy has completed her third year of clinical training in vascular surgery at Stanford. Now in her professional development time, her research is focused on improving comprehensive abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) care including screening, preoperative risk stratification, outcomes of surgical and endovascular treatment, and long-term surveillance following repair. 

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