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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

Working Papers

Quantifying Creative Destruction: Entrepreneurship and Productivity in New Zealand

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Commentary

Proposition 69 Could Threaten Privacy of DNA

San Francisco Chronicle, 2004

Books

Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles For Water and Power

Cornell University Press, 2004

Journal Articles

Underuse of Evidence-Based Therapies

Circulation, 2004

Working Papers

Avoid Hubris and Other Lessons for Reformers

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Structural Convergence

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Global Standards; Global Growth?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Human Rights and Citizenship: The Emergence of Human Rights Education

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Monte Carlo Study of Growth Regressions, A

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Polish Electricity Market Investment Context, The

Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #31, 2004

Working Papers

Sources of Rationalized Governance: Cross-National Longitudinal Analyses, 1985-2002

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Moving Up Out of Poverty: What Does Democracy Have to Do With It?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Building Democratic Peace in the Eastern Mediterranean: An Inevitably Ambitious Agenda

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: The European Experience

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Geopolitics of Gas: Executive Summary, The

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Working Papers

Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Identity, Social Distance, and Palestinian Support for the Roadmap

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Post-Communist Paradox: How the Rise of Parliamentarism Coincided with the Demise of Pluralism in Moldova

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Borders and Growth

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Rule of Law? Whose Law?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

National trends in osteoporosis visits and osteoporosis treatment, 1988-2003

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Archives of Internal Medicine, 2004

Policy Briefs

Future Of Bay Area Jobs

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SPRIE, 2004

Journal Articles

Evaluation of primary care patients with chronic stable angina: guidelines from the American College of Physicians

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Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004

Newsletters

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, summer 2004

CHP/PCOR, 2004