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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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Upcoming Events

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Publications

Working Papers

Political Economy of International Infrastructure Contracting, Lessons from the IPP Experience

Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #52, 2005

Journal Articles

Internet use and stigmatized illness

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Social Science and Medicine, 2005

Journal Articles

What to Do about Russia

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Policy Review, 2005

Working Papers

Offshoring and the Future of U.S. Engineering: An Overview

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The Bridge: Linking Engineering and Society, 2005

Journal Articles

Ringing In Proliferation: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb Network

International Security, 2005

Working Papers

China's Rural Public Finance: The Village Perspective - Annex 7

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Report to the World Bank, Village Finance: Tax-for-Fee-Reform, Village Operating Budgets and Public Goods Investment, 2005

Books

Journal of Korean Studies, volume 10

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2005

Journal Articles

Rating Methodological Quality: Toward Improved Assessment and Investigation

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Accountability in Research, 2005

Journal Articles

Russia and the West: A Dangerous Drift

Current History, 2005

Newsletters

Encina Columns Fall 2005

FSI Stanford, 2005

Working Papers

IPP Experience in the Brazilian Electricity Market, The

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #53, 2005

Books

What is Indonesia?

Rowman & Littlefield, 2005

Newsletters

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, fall 2005 issue

2005

Journal Articles

India and Pakistan's Unstable Peace: Why Nuclear South Asia Is Not Like Cold War Europe

International Security, 2005

Working Papers

Regulation of Local Governments and Enterprise Formation in Rural China

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2005

Journal Articles

Terror and Beauty - The European Institute for Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism

Bridges, 2005

Journal Articles

A Madisonian Approach to Climate Policy

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Science, 2005

Journal Articles

Competition in Health Care: It Takes Systems to Pursue Quality and Efficiency

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Health Affairs, 2005

Journal Articles

An Energy Model for a Low Income Rural African Village

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Energy Policy, 2005

Working Papers

Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor, The

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2005

Working Papers

Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth

2005

Working Papers

Agriculture Decision-Making in Indonesia with ENSO Variability: Conference poster

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2005

Journal Articles

Neural basis of financial risk taking, the

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Neuron, 2005

Working Papers

AIDS, Reversal of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa

CDDRL Working Papers, 2005

Working Papers

Enabling ICT for Rural India

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Shorenstein APARC/National Informatics Centre, 2005