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Stanford Health Policy analyses of flu pandemics project savings from earlier vaccinations
In a city the size of New York, starting a vaccination campaign a few weeks earlier could save almost 600 lives and over $150 million, according to a study by scientists at the Stanford Health Policy and Stanford University School of Medicine. The study, to be published online Oct. 6 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, modeled a pandemic in a hypothetical urban area with a population and demographic characteristics mirroring New York City's. 
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In Economist debate, SHP director Garber focuses on value of comparative effectiveness researchStanford Health Policy director Alan Garber offers his take on comparative effectiveness research in the Economist's online debate forum. Garber writes that our current system of "ignoring value ... has failed to limit expenditures or to deliver superior health outcomes." Part of the series "Economists Debates," Garber is the featured guest in the most recent online version of Oxford style of debating. | Stanford Health Policy welcomes Global Health Corps fellows for orientationThe first class of Global Health Corps fellows came to Stanford in July for an intensive orientation program. Stanford Health Policy hosted the the two-week training session, which prepared the 21 fellows for a year of global health field work in in Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, Newark, NJ, and Boston, MA. |
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