Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Center on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford Health Policy
The Europe Center
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Rural Education Action Program
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies
Center for Innovation in Global Health
Stanford Center at Peking University
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.
September 4th, 2012
Stanford study shows little evidence of health benefits from organic foods
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsResearchers did not find strong evidence that organic foods are more nutritious or carry fewer health risks than conventional alternatives. But they do note that consumption of organic foods can reduce the risk of pesticide exposure. Read more »
August 20th, 2012
Stanford experts propose new ideas for governments dealing with old age
CHP/PCOR, Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford, AHPP NewsStanford health economists Karen Eggleston and Victor Fuchs offer an innovative view of the global aging phenomenon in an article published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Read more »
July 20th, 2012
Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert on disconnect between child and adult obesity
A recent study by Stanford Health Policy's Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, and colleagues at the School of Medicine showed that targeting obesity prevention to small children who are overweight might not be effective. That's because a higher-than-normal weight at age 5 provides an accurate predictor of adult obesity only 50 percent of the time. 
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July 18th, 2012
Rosenkranz Prize winner adding Latin Americans to DNA database
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsAndres Moreno will use the $100,000 from this year’s Rosenkranz Prize to analyze the DNA of one of the most underrepresented populations in the field of genetics. Read more »
June 11th, 2012
In countries where cooking can kill, trying to promote safer stoves
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR, Shorenstein APARC NewsTraditional cookstoves are to blame for much of the pollution that leads to millions of deaths in the developing world. Safer stoves are available, but few people buy them. Stanford researchers say that’s because the newer models aren’t designed to give people what they really want. Read more »
May 15th, 2012
Global AIDS relief program reduces mortality, research shows
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsThe U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief “may be considered the clearest demonstration of aid’s effectiveness in recent years,” according to Stanford researchers who analyze the program in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read more »
May 8th, 2012
Stanford study shows no evidence that international health aid is wasted
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsIn June 2012, Stanford researchers Rajaie Batniji and Eran Bendavid retracted the research findings explained in the following article. Read more »
May 2nd, 2012
China provides universal health insurance at a fraction of the cost
Shorenstein APARC, CHP/PCOR, FSI Stanford, AHPP, SCP NewsChinese officials are developing a social security network to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing demographic landscape. Karen Eggleston discusses the success of China’s health care reforms and the long road ahead. Read more »
April 16th, 2012
Treating men at high risk for HIV makes economic sense, says Stanford study
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsEran Bendavid says the results of his work are a departure from a previous study. Earlier research found giving preventative drugs to large groups of gay men at high risk for HIV was not cost-effective when compared with other commonly accepted programs. Read more »
April 9th, 2012
Researchers call for policy, aid and innovation to help world’s poorest
CISAC, CDDRL, FSE, FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsBill Gates spoke to a Stanford audience about the importance of foreign aid and product innovation in the fight against chronic hunger, poverty and disease in the developing world. FSI senior fellows Larry Diamond, Jeremy Weinstein, Paul Wise and Walter Falcon share their own ideas about how to secure the most fragile nations. Read more »
April 5th, 2012
Award offers researchers $100,000 for improving health care access
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsThe $100,000 award will go to a non-tenured professor, post-doctoral student or research associate during a two-year period. The deadline to apply is May 11. Read more »
March 29th, 2012
Q&A;: Bhattacharya on what's at stake in health care case
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsWith legal arguments at the Supreme Court over, the fate of the Obama administration's health care law is in the hands of the justices. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford Center for Health Policy core faculty member, explains how consumers could be affected. 
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March 13th, 2012
Two Open Faculty Positions
AnnouncementDouglas Owens, Director of the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research is pleased to announce a search for two faculty positions. This is an exciting opportunity to strengthen our programs and focus on health economics and health policy in both domestic and international settings. Read more »
February 21st, 2012
Expensive and unpleasant, but hepatitis C treatment is worth it, study shows
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsResearch led by by Stanford Health Policy's Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert shows treatments for hepatitis C are cost-effective for patients with advanced disease. Their results are based on a computer model of hepatitis C.
February 16th, 2012
Owens appointed to national task force
CHP/PCOR, FSI Stanford NewsThe CHP/PCOR director has been appointed to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a group that develops national guidelines for preventive services. Read more »
January 11th, 2012
Health insurance no guarantee for diabetes care in developing countries
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsWithout good health care, diabetics run the risk of developing more health problems. Stanford researchers say those complications will put a greater strain on the patients and the countries where they live – a problem that can be addressed with improvements to health and insurance systems. Read more »
October 7th, 2011
Douglas Owens takes helm of health policy and research centers
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsThe professor of medicine and general internist was one of the first faculty members to join CHP/PCOR when the centers were founded in 1998. Much of his work on HIV and cardiovascular disease has focused on measuring the benefits of certain treatments and interventions against their costs. Read more »
September 27th, 2011
Abortions in Africa increase despite Republican policy to curb payment for procedures
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsIn the first study to examine American foreign aid restrictions for abortion services, FSI researchers Eran Bendavid and Grant Miller find that restricting funding for family planning organizations that support abortions increased abortions in Africa. 
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July 7th, 2011
The Benefits of Health Insurance for the Poor
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR in the news: The New York Times on July 7, 2011When poor people are given medical insurance, they not only find regular doctors and see doctors more often but they also feel better, are less depressed and are better able to maintain financial stability, according to a new, large-scale study that provides the first rigorously controlled assessment of the impact of Medicaid. Those who do not have health insurance tend to be different in many ways from people who have it, says Alan Garber, MD head of Stanford Health Policy.
May 20th, 2011
Population Reference Bureau interviews Alan Garber
In an interview with the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), Alan Garber discusses cost-effectiveness research and its importance to health care reform. Read more »
Guatemala's Wise 'Doctor Pablo'
in the news: The Stanford Daily on May 17, 2011In San Juan El Mirador, a traditional town in the highlands of Guatemala 2,500 miles from Stanford, pediatrics professor Paul Wise is working to transform the local medical scene. “Doctor Pablo,” as the locals affectionately call him, has been traveling to Guatemala for 40 years now [meeting] with doctors, policymakers and clinics from the area in an attempt to bring the tiny Guatemalan town up to Western medical standards.
May 4th, 2011
30th Anniversary for Global Health Scholars Program
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR in the newsMichele Barry, Stanford, and Yale are celebrating an important milestone this week – the 30th anniversary of the Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholars Program Barry founded and runs now at Stanford in collaboration with Yale. Since 1981, the program has sent over 1500 physicians to underserved areas around the world and provided more than $3 million dollars of support. Barry is the Senior Associate Dean for Global Health and Director of the Center for Global Health affiliated with FSI, GSB, and the Woods Institute. Read more »
April 15th, 2011
Alan Garber named Provost of Harvard
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsAlan Garber, the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor and Professor of Medicine and Economics, and Director of Stanford Health Policy (Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research), has been named Provost of Harvard University, effective fall 2011. Making the announcement Harvard President Drew Faust said, “Alan is a distinguished academic leader who brings to Harvard an extraordinary breadth of experience in research across disciplines." FSI Director Coit D. Blacker, the Olivier Nomellini Professor in International Studies said, "We congratulate Alan on his appointment as Provost of Harvard. We will miss his probing intellect, his contributions to scholarship and public policy, and his keen appreciation of the challenges facing research universities." In a message to colleagues Alan Garber said, "My time on the faculty at Stanford has been wonderful in every important way. The past 13 years, when CHP and PCOR were created and grew, have been the high point of my Stanford career."
- » Stanford Report: Harvard names Stanford Medical School Professor Alan M. Garber as its next provost
- » Harvard Gazette: Alan Garber named provost
April 13th, 2011
Research casts sober light on Russia's mortality crisis
CHP/PCOR, FSI Stanford NewsWhile many have blamed Russia's economic and political transition for the increase in deaths following the Soviet Union's collapse, Stanford's Grant Miller and Jay Bhattacharya pin new blame on the demise of an effective anti-alcohol campaign. Most of the deaths during Russia's mortality crisis were from alcohol poisoning, drunken violence or slower killers like heart attacks and strokes, said Miller.
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February 15th, 2011
The 112th Congress: What's in Store for Cancer Care in 2011?
in the news: The ASCO PostThe 111th Congress is gone but not forgotten, having passed into law the landmark Affordable Care Act of 2010. Although this legislation has several interesting appropriations for cancer research, a core principle of the bill is finding ways to reduce health-care spending, which gives the oncology community an uneasy sense of déjà vu: The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 hammered oncology with deep cuts in reimbursement for Part B drugs, leaving many community infusion centers underwater. Oncology practices, especially smaller one- to three-person groups, have to wonder how much more change they can take. Read more »
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