Featured Publications

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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

The 2016 California Policy to Eliminate Nonmedical Vaccine Exemptions and Changes in Vaccine Coverage: An Empirical Policy Analysis

PLOS Medicine , 2019

Poverty and Community-Acquired Antimicrobial Resistance with Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Organisms, Hyderabad, India

Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, 2018

Journal Articles

Characteristics Associated With Decreased or Increased Mortality Risk From Glycemic Therapy Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and High Cardiovascular Risk: Machine Learning Analysis of the ACCORD Trial

American Diabetes Association, 2017

Journal Articles

Validation of Risk Equations for Complications of Type 2 Diabetes (RECODe) Using Individual Participant Data From Diverse Longitudinal Cohorts in the U.S.

American Diabetes Association, 2017

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

Federal Funding For State And Local Contact Tracing Efforts Is An Urgent Priority, And A Bargain

Privileges and Immunity Certification During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Provider Discretion and Variation in Resource Allocation: The Case of Triage Decisions

Standing Up against Gender Bias and Harassment — A Matter of Professional Ethics

Diagnostic Testing for the Novel Coronavirus

Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan Big Data Analytics, New Technology, and Proactive Testing

Cost-Effectiveness of Transitional Care Services After Hospitalization With Heart Failure

The 2016 California Policy to Eliminate Nonmedical Vaccine Exemptions and Changes in Vaccine Coverage: An Empirical Policy Analysis

Catherine Lei CV

Estimation of global insulin use for type 2 diabetes, 2018–30: a microsimulation analysis

The fog of development: evaluating the Millennium Villages Project

Anesthesia Care Team Composition and Surgical Outcomes

Cost Effectiveness of Radiation and Chemotherapy for High-Risk Low Grade Glioma

Poverty and Community-Acquired Antimicrobial Resistance with Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Organisms, Hyderabad, India

ACA Marketplace Premiums and Competition Among Hospitals and Physician Practices

Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland

Robust relationship between air quality and infant mortality in Africa

Learning on the Job: Evidence from Physicians in Training

Industry Input in Policymaking: Evidence from Medicare

Is Single Payer the Answer for the US Health Care System?

Drug Companies’ Liability for the Opioid Epidemic

Family Planning and Fertility Behavior: Evidence from Twentieth Century Malaysia

Relationship between season of birth, temperature exposure, and later life wellbeing

Characteristics Associated With Decreased or Increased Mortality Risk From Glycemic Therapy Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and High Cardiovascular Risk: Machine Learning Analysis of the ACCORD Trial

Validation of Risk Equations for Complications of Type 2 Diabetes (RECODe) Using Individual Participant Data From Diverse Longitudinal Cohorts in the U.S.