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A Global Analysis of Within-Country Health Inequalities

Eran Bendavid and Grant Miller compare health inequalities in the US with 180 countries. In a study in JAMA Health Forum, they found that while global life expectancy inequality has declined since 1960, the US lags behind other high-income countries.

JAMA Health Forum Study

Unhappy With Your Health Insurance? Employer May Not Care

Although 58% of Americans rely on employer-sponsored health insurance, US corporations do surprisingly little to improve health-care options for their employees, according to research by GSB Professors Jeffrey Pfeffer and Sara Singer.

Go to GSB Story on the Research Papers

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette and Josh Salomon, Stanford University

Strategies to Address Harms of Market-Driven Drug Development

Stanford Law’s Lisa Larrimore Ouellette and SHP’s Josh Salomon co-author report to address a persistent flaw in the U.S. health system: prioritizing treatment investment based on market potential rather than medical necessity.

Go to NASEM Report

Fatal Trade-Off: Land Allotment Policy Raised Native American Death Rates

Grant Miller & Matt Snipp reveal that a 19th-century federal program gave Native Americans land and citizenship, but had devastating consequences.

PNAS Research Article

Foreign Aid Sanctions Set Back Decades of Progress on Maternal, Child Mortality

Ruth Gibson and Paul Wise analyze three decades foreign aid sanctions to assess impact on health. They hope the work can help government officials better understand and address how foreign policy decisions affect the well-being of local populations.

Lancet Global Health Article

Publications

Journal Articles

Initial Economic Damage From the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Is More Widespread Across Ages and Geographies Than Initial Mortality Impacts

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2020

A Global Analysis of Within-Country Health Inequalities

Unhappy With Your Health Insurance? Employer May Not Care

Strategies to Address Harms of Market-Driven Drug Development

Fatal Trade-Off: Land Allotment Policy Raised Native American Death Rates

Foreign Aid Sanctions Set Back Decades of Progress on Maternal, Child Mortality

Initial Economic Damage From the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Is More Widespread Across Ages and Geographies Than Initial Mortality Impacts

Retaining VA Women’s Health Primary Care Providers: Work Setting Matters

Health Care Claims Data May Be Useful For COVID-19 Research Despite Significant Limitations

An Impact-Oriented Approach to Epidemiological Modeling

Stanford Health Policy PhD Handbook 2020-2021

Association of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes With Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Postmenopausal Women

Fair Regression for Healthcare Spending

Modeling Contact Tracing Strategies for COVID-19 in the Context of Relaxed Physical Distancing Measures

Hepatitis C Treatment in Prisons — Incarcerated People’s Uncertain Right to Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy

Operational Considerations on the American Academy of Pediatrics Guidance for K-12 School Reentry

Partitioning the Curve — Interstate Travel Restrictions During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Attacks on Public Health Officials During COVID-19

Respecting Disability Rights — Toward Improved Crisis Standards of Care

The Legal Authority for States’ Stay-at-Home Orders

COVID-19 Policies: Remember Measles

Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response

Disease Control, Civil Liberties, and Mass Testing — Calibrating Restrictions during the Covid-19 Pandemic

How to Safely Reopen Colleges and Universities During COVID-19: Experiences From Taiwan

Ensuring Uptake of Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2

Coronavirus Could Make America’s Gun Problem Even Deadlier

Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California

Ethics and Governance for Digital Disease Surveillance

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally — The U.S. Response to Covid-19

How to Prevent and Manage Hospital-Based Infections During Coronavirus Outbreaks: Five Lessons from Taiwan

Examining Pharmaceutical Benefits in the United States—A Framework