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Global Health

Interdisciplinary research on global health problems through the lenses of economics, nutrition and politics.

Research Spotlight

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Tackling the Health of Women and Children in Global Conflict Settings

A new four-paper series in The Lancet exposes the far-reaching effects of modern warfare on women’s and children’s health. Stanford researchers, including SHP's Paul Wise and Eran Bendavid, have joined other academics and health-care experts in calling for an international commitment from humanitarian actors and donors to confront political and security challenges.

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Ethics and Governance of Digital Epidemiology

Many countries have taken digital epidemiology to the next level in responding to COVID-19. Focusing on core public health functions of case detection, contact tracing, and isolation and quarantine, the authors explore ethical concerns raised by digital technologies and new data sources in public health surveillance during epidemics.

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Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland

African-American men have the lowest life expectancy of any major demographic group in the United States and live on average 4.5 fewer years than non-Hispanic white men. This paper finds that the mortality disparity is partly related to underutilized preventive healthcare services.

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Featured Scholars

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Michelle Mello

Professor of Medicine

Professor of Law

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Doug Owens

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Professor of Medicine

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Maya Rossin-Slater

Assistant Professor, Medicine

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Paul Wise

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Professor of Child Health and Society

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Publications

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Higher Education as an Institution

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

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When the Wave Hits a Shoal: The Internal and External Dimensions of Russia's Turn Away from Democracy

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Books

Introduction to Personal Health Records, An

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Family Practice Management, 2006

Working Papers

Political Regimes and Their Changes: A Conceptual Framework

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

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The Missing Variable: The "International System" as the Link between Third and Fourth Wave Models of Democratization

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Journal Articles

Criminal Law: Anglo-American Privacy and Surveillance

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 2006

Working Papers

Stabilizing Iraq: Options for Democracy, Security, and Development

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Defining and Domesticating the Electoral Model: A Comparison of Slovakia and Serbia

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

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Risk Assessment for and Strategies to Reduce Perioperative Pulmonary Complications for Patients Undergoing Noncardiothoracic Surgery: A Guideline from the American College of Physicians

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Annals of Internal Medicine, 2006

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Engaging Autocratic Allies to Promote Democracy

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The Washington Quarterly, 2006

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Environmental Safeguards for Open-Ocean Aquaculture

Issues in Science and Technology, 2006

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International Differences in Patient and Physician Perceptions of "High Quality" Healthcare: A Model from Pediatric Cardiology

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American Journal of Cardiology, 2006

Working Papers

The Shadow of Enlargement: Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Achieve Compliance?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Working Papers

From Citizen to Person? Rethinking Education as Incorporation

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Journal Articles

Culture and Combat in the Colonies: The Indian Army in the Second World War

Journal of Contemporary History, 2006

Journal Articles

Political Transitions: Democracy and the Former Soviet Union

Harvard International Review, 2006

Newsletters

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, spring 2006 issue

2006

Journal Articles

Curbing Asian Corruption: An Impossible Dream?

Current History, 2006

Journal Articles

The Shadow of Enlargement: Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Achieve Compliance?

The Columbia Journal of European Law, 2006

Journal Articles

Sovereign Democracy and Shrinking Political Space

Russia Business Watch, 2006

Newsletters

Encina Columns Spring 2006

FSI Stanford, 2006

Working Papers

Regime Vulnerability and Popular Mobilization in Georgia's Rose Revolution

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Working Papers

Farmer's Professional Associations in Rural China: State Dominated or New State-Society Partnerships?

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Working Papers

Is More Better? Evaluating External-Led State Building After 1989

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Journal Articles

Postcolonial Moment in Security Studies, The

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Review of International Studies, 2006