Featured Publications

Addressing Financial Toxicity in Cancer Care Through Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) Policy

This policy brief by Alyce Adams and Mateen Ghassemi examines the financial burden experienced by cancer patients and their families, impacting around half of cancer survivors.

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International Comparison of Physician Incomes

Stanford Health Policy’s Maria Polyakova, PhD, and colleagues set out to measure how much doctors earn and, crucially, where their incomes fall within the overall income rankings of four wealthy countries: the US, Canada, Sweden, and the Netherlands

NBER Paper

Public Preschool Aids in Developmental, Learning-Related Diagnoses

New research by SIEPR and SHP scholars Adrienne Sabety and Maya Rossin-Slater shows how early exposure to public preschool benefits low-income children with behavioral and developmental conditions.

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Study Finds Gaza Violent Death Toll Likely 35% Higher Than Official Estimates

A Study by Eran Bendavid in The Lancet Global Health finds the number of violent deaths in the Gaza Strip in the first year of the conflict with Israel was underreported

The Lancet Global Health Study

Promoting Fairness in Screening Programs for Late-Career Practitioners

SHP's Michelle Mello argues there are late-career physician programs that can balance patient safety with procedural fairness.

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Guidance for Clinicians Navigating Conflicting Vaccination Recommendations

SHP’s Michelle Mello and former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky offer recommendations to clinicians struggling to follow new vaccine guidelines.

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Post COVID-19 Hypertension: A Longitudinal Study of 40,000 Incarcerated Adults

SHP researchers and colleagues at the California Correctional Health Care Services find that COVID-19 is associated with significant increases in hypertension incidence in the large, racially and ethnically diverse prison population.

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When AI Algorithms Decide Whether Your Insurance Will Cover Your Care

In this Health Affairs study, Stanford researchers examine the promises of efficiency and risks of supercharged flaws in the race to use artificial intelligence in health care.

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Publications

Journal Articles

Suicide Deaths Among Women in California Living With Handgun Owners vs Those Living With Other Adults in Handgun-Free Homes, 2004-2016

JAMA Psychiatry, 2022

Journal Articles

Impact of Treatment Duration on Mortality Among Veterans with Opioid Use Disorder in The United States Veterans Health Administration

Wiley Online Library, 2021

Journal Articles

Addressing Financial Toxicity in Cancer Care Through Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) Policy

International Comparison of Physician Incomes

Public Preschool Aids in Developmental, Learning-Related Diagnoses

Study Finds Gaza Violent Death Toll Likely 35% Higher Than Official Estimates

Promoting Fairness in Screening Programs for Late-Career Practitioners

Guidance for Clinicians Navigating Conflicting Vaccination Recommendations

Post COVID-19 Hypertension: A Longitudinal Study of 40,000 Incarcerated Adults

When AI Algorithms Decide Whether Your Insurance Will Cover Your Care

JAMA Forum: Resuscitating Abortion Rights in Emergency Care

The political economy of child servitude in Liberia, West Africa

Improving the CDC Quarantine Station Network's Response to Emerging Threats

An Introductory Tutorial on Cohort State-Transition Models in R Using a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Example

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Owning Guns Puts People in Your Home at Greater Risk of Being Killed, New Study Shows

Assessment of Perioperative Outcomes Among Surgeons Who Operated the Night Before

Suicide Deaths Among Women in California Living With Handgun Owners vs Those Living With Other Adults in Handgun-Free Homes, 2004-2016

Educational Gradients in Disability Among Asia’s Future Elderly: Projections for the Republic of Korea and Singapore

Adversity and Opportunity—The Pandemic’s Paradoxical Effect on Child Health and Well-being

Vaccine Misinformation and the First Amendment—The Price of Free Speech

Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans

A Generalizable Data Assembly Algorithm for Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Democracies Linked To Greater Universal Health Coverage Compared With Autocracies, Even In An Economic Recession

COVID-19 in the California State Prison System: an Observational Study of Decarceration, Ongoing Risks, and Risk Factors

Legal Look at Proof of Vaccination & Ongoing Fight Against COVID-19

Compliance with Price Transparency by California Hospitals

My Husband Had A Stroke After His COVID Vaccine. We Gave Our Kid His Shot Anyway

Incorporating Health Equity Into COVID-19 Reopening Plans: Policy Experimentation in California

Contact-tracing App Curbed the Spread of COVID in England and Wales

Impact of Treatment Duration on Mortality Among Veterans with Opioid Use Disorder in The United States Veterans Health Administration

Ethical Machine Learning in Healthcare

Risk Perceptions and Protective Behaviors: Evidence from COVID-19 Pandemic

Choices In a Crisis - Individual Preferences Among SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines

To Address Drug Affordability, Grab the Low-Hanging Fruit

Influence and Information in Team Decisions: Evidence from Medical Residency