Health Research and Policy
Emeriti: (Professors) Dan Bloch, John Farquhar, Victor R. Fuchs
Chair: Phil Lavori
Co-Chair: Robert Tibshirani
Professors: Laurence Baker, Bradley Efron, Trevor Hastie, Victor W. Henderson, Mark Hlatky, John Ioannidis, Iain M. Johnstone, Abby C. King, Philip W. Lavori, Ying Lu, Yvonne Maldonado, Richard A. Olshen, Julie Parsonnet, Robert Tibshirani, Alice S. Whittemore, Dee W. West, Wing Wong
Associate Professor: M. Kate Bundorf, Lorene M. Nelson, Chiara Sabatti
Assistant Professors: Marc Coram, Allison Kurian, Mei-Chiung Shih, Weiva Sieh, Lu Tian
Assistant Professors (Clinical): Rita Popat, Kristin Sainani
Courtesy Professors: Mary Goldstein, Paul Heidenreich, Daniel Kessler, Alex Macario, Douglas Owens, Paul Wise
Courtesy Associate Professors: Jay Bhattacharya, David R. Rogosa
Courtesy Assistant Professors: Grant Miller
Senior Lecturer: Irene Corso
Lecturers: Raymond Balise, Scarlett Gomez, Laurel Habel, De Kun Li, David Lilienfeld, Cynthia O'Malley, Caroline Tanner, Stephen Van Den Eeden
Consulting Professors: Gary Friedman, Elizabeth Holly, Marion Lee, George Lundberg, Peggy Reynolds
Consulting Associate Professors: Paul Barnett, Sally Glaser, Pamela Horn-Ross, Esther John, Ciaran Phibbs
Consulting Assistant Professors: Ellen Chang, Christina Clarke-Dur, Theresa Keegan, Bang Nguyen, Ingrid Oakley-Girvan, Rudy Rull, Todd Wagner
Mail Code: 94305-5405
Phone: (650) 723-5456
Web Site: http://hrp.stanford.edu
Courses offered by the Department of Health Research and Policy are listed under the subject code HRP on the Stanford Bulletin's ExploreCourses web site.
The Department of Health Research and Policy has three principal areas of scholarly interest:
- Biostatistics deals with scientific methodology in the medical sciences, emphasizing the use of statistical techniques.
- Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of illness and impairment in human populations. Epidemiology training provides analytic tools for clinical and translational research, including studies of disease etiology, prevention, and therapy.
- Health Services Research is concerned with many aspects of health policy analysis in the public and private sectors
Graduate Programs in Health Research Policy
The Program in Epidemiology and the Program in Health Services Research are housed in the Department of Health Research and Policy. These programs offer M.S. degrees in Epidemiology and in Health Services Research. Students with an interest in pursuing advanced degrees with an emphasis on biostatistics can do so through programs offered by the Department of Statistics. Division of Biostatistics faculty participate in these programs.
For additional information, address inquiries to the Educational Coordinator, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, HRP Redwood Building, Room T-152F, Stanford, California 94305-5405.