Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Stanford Health Policy
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Program on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
CHP/PCOR's faculty and affiliates frequently make news. They produce timely, policy-relevant research that is often covered by the news media; they provide comment for news articles and publish editorials on a variety of healthcare issues; and they receive awards and honors for their work.
October 14th, 2009
Alan Garber assesses what to expect from health reform
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsEntitlement programs, especially Medicare, pose the single gravest threat to our long-term financial future, Stanford Health Policy Director Alan Garber notes, with Medicare alone on a trajectory to consume 10 percent of the nation's output. Garber, a physician, economist, and professor of medicine, explores major cost savings proposals and the key features of the health reform plans now being debated in the U.S. Congress. 
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October 9th, 2009
In Economist debate, SHP director Garber focuses on value of comparative effectiveness research
Op-ed: the Economist on October 7, 2009Stanford 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. 
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October 5th, 2009
Stanford Health Policy analyses of flu pandemics project savings from earlier vaccinations
Press ReleaseIn 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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August 17th, 2009
Stanford Health Policy/UCSF team finds inducing labor need not increase cesarean risk
Press ReleaseContrary to a belief widely held by obstetricians, inducing labor need not increase a woman's risk for cesarean section delivery in childbirth, scientists at Stanford Health Policy and the University of California, San Francisco have found.
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August 12th, 2009
Stanford Health Policy welcomes Global Health Corps fellows for orientation
CHP/PCOR, FSI Stanford AnnouncementThe 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. Read more »
August 3rd, 2009
Stanford research assesses use of Tamiflu, Relenza to prevent flu
AnnouncementTwo common anti-influenza drugs -- Relenza and Tamiflu -- appear equally effective at preventing common flu symptoms when given before infection, say Stanford Health Policy researchers. However, data is lacking on the effectiveness and safety of the two drugs in vulnerable groups such as the very young and people with compromised immune systems.
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July 6th, 2009
Health services & research medical student receives top honors at prestigious AcademyHealth annual meeting
AnnouncementStanford School of Medicine student Jacqueline Baras Shreibati took home two of health service research's highest honors last month at a conference in Chicago. Shreibati, who also received a health service research masters degree from Stanford, won the AcademyHealth's Student Poster Award. Her poster, "MRI Availability and Low Back Pain Care for Medicare Patients," was also named one of the four best abstracts submitted by students at the AcademyHealth's annual meeting, and her work was featured in a special panel of the top student projects. Read more »
June 30th, 2009
Garber's IOM committee releases report recommending 100 initial priorities for research to determine which health care approaches work best
Press ReleaseAs a member of the Institute of Medicine committee charged with prioritizing the use of $1.1 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds for comparative effectiveness research, Stanford Health Policy director Alan Garber co-authored the report recommending the 100 health topics that should get priority attention and funding.
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June 18th, 2009
In podcast, economist Victor Fuchs discusses why a government-sponsored insurance system won't work
Stanford Health Policy core faculty member Victor Fuchs draws upon his recent New England Journal of Medicine commentary to explain why the proposed health reform legislation advancing a government-sponsored insurance system doesn't address the fundamental problems in the health care system. Read more »
June 16th, 2009
Stanford Health Policy associate lists five steps to boost impact of comparative effectiveness research
Comparative effectiveness research is generating buzz these days, but associate Randall Stafford is asking policymakers to make sure that the plans for using the research go deep enough.
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June 8th, 2009
Horwitz investigates the role of parental involvement in childhood obesity
In the June 1, 2009 edition of Clinical Pediatrics, Stanford Health Policy core faculty member Sarah Horwitz co-authors an article assessing a family's influence in a child's body mass index.
Stanford Health Policy researchers evaluate quality improvement strategies for children with asthma
After culling through 79 studies to evaluate which interventions improve the outcomes and processes of care for children with asthma, six Stanford Health Policy researchers penned an article for the forthcoming Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine. Authors include senior researcher Dena Bravata, assistant research director Vandana Sundaram, associate Nayer Khazeni, core faculty members Paul Wise and Douglas Owens and executive director Kathryn McDonald.
In Washington Post op-ed Alain Enthoven lays out steps necessary to improve health care value
Op-ed: Washington Post on June 6, 2009In their June 6th opinion piece, core faculty member Alain Enthoven and Mayo Clinic CEO Denis Cortese point to two fundamentals for cost savings in health care reform. They write that the President and Congress must focus on organized health-care delivery and aligned incentives to bring value to the health care system. Read more »
May 28th, 2009
In New England Journal perspective, Fuchs argues a government health insurance company doesn't fix the health care crisis
AnnouncementStanford Health Policy core faculty member Victor Fuchs writes that a government-sponsored insurance company wouldn't make a dent in health care's three biggest problem areas-- high numbers of uninsured, rising costs and lapses in quality care. Rather, he pens in the New England Journal of Medicine perspective "The Proposed Government Health Insurance Company -- No Substitute for Real Reform," reform must be focused on financing, organization, and delivery of care.
May 20th, 2009
FRESH-Thinking Project on Health Care Reform Capstone Conference
CHP/PCOR, FSI Stanford NewsAt the FRESH Thinking Project on Health Care Reform Capstone Conference sponsored by Stanford Health Policy, thought leaders garnered one consensus: health care reform will happen, but what it will look like and if it will be enough is still to be seen. "What we can talk about are possibilities," said emeritus faculty member Victor Fuchs. Read more »
May 14th, 2009
Live blogging the FRESH-Thinking Capstone Conference on health reform
As the Obama Administration pushes for comprehensive health care reform, experts from across the field-- including Stanford Health Policy professors-- gather to discuss what steps must be taken for substantive change. Follow the FRESH-Thinking Capstone Conference via this livestream. Read more »
May 6th, 2009
Real time swine flu coverage: Stanford health experts regularly weigh in
Stanford Health Policy experts use this forum to weigh in on the swine flu-- the potential for disaster, the response thus far, what you should be on alert for-- drawing upon their multi-disciplinary backgrounds. Read more »
April 28th, 2009
Public health intervention expert discusses severity of swine flu
CHP/PCOR, FSI Stanford NewsStanford Health Policy core faculty Douglas K. Owens studies emergency responses to disease outbreaks. He sees the current swine flu outbreak as "exceptionally concerning" and says the next few days will give us a better sense of how far-reaching the epidemic is and how prepared the United States is to address it. Read more »
April 20th, 2009
Harvard health care expert Joe Newhouse discusses Medicare Part D in talk at Stanford
AnnouncementThe John D. MacArthur Professor Health Policy and Management at Harvard University discussed health care spending and Medicare Part D. Newhouse has decades of experience in the field and numerous awards and appointments for his research in health care. Read more »
April 8th, 2009
Longevity conference April 15-16 features CHP/PCOR faculty
AnnouncementMuch of the world's population is living longer, and the consequences of this change will be among the subjects to be covered at the East-West Alliance Conference that will take place on the Stanford University campus April 15-16 in the Clark Center auditorium. Read more »
April 7th, 2009
Hlatky's coronary disease treatment comparison study continues to capture global press coverage
In the NewsFaculty fellow Mark Hlatky continues to garner media coverage for his Lancet article comparing coronary artery bypass surgery and percutaneous coronary interventions for multivessel disease. Featured in hundreds of publications worldwide, Hlatky is also interviewed in the April 4th Lancet podcast.
April 6th, 2009
Stanford study first ever to show U.S. AIDS relief program saved a million lives
CHP/PCOR, FSI Stanford Press ReleaseStanford health policy researchers Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya show in April's Annals of Internal Medicine that an ambitious U.S. government program begun in 2003 has cut the death toll from HIV/AIDS through 2007 by more than 10 percent in targeted countries in Africa, though it has had no appreciable effect on prevalence of the disease.
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March 19th, 2009
Miller receives Presidential Fund grant to test pay for performance health incentives among anemic in China
Core faculty Grant Miller received an award for his proposal "Paying for Performance in China's Battle against Anemia" and will begin the program in rural northwest China this fall with Stanford Assistant Professor of Education Jennifer Adams. Read more »
Enthoven describes 'wedlock' of employer based insurance system in the Economist
In the News: The Economist on March 19, 2009Core faculty Alain Enthoven is quoted in the British newsmagazine's article "Labour Mobility: The Road Not Taken."
March 18th, 2009
Symposium to focus on AIDS, poverty's impact on African youth
AnnouncementA two-day symposium on addressing the impact of HIV/AIDS and poverty on children in sub-Saharan Africa will be held April 2-3 at Encina Hall's Bechtel Conference Center. The symposium will feature leaders from African nongovernmental organizations, as well as Stanford students and faculty, engaged in a series of panel and roundtable discussions. Read more »
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