The Medical Consequences of Starvation The effects can persist long after people regain access to food, experts say.

Famine’s impact begins before birth and can echo for generations, warns Ruth Gibson, an SHP postdoc research fellow and maternal and child health expert in conflict zones.

The hidden mental health cost of climate distress New research reveals that Bangladeshi adolescents in flood-prone areas are more likely to experience anxiety and depression, with girls disproportionately impacted.

Study sheds light on an emerging psychological health crisis that disproportionately affects girls. The study in The Lancet Planetary Health is among the first to quantify how repeated climate stressors impact the psychological well-being and future outlook of adolescents in low-resource settings.

The Medical Consequences of Starvation The effects can persist long after people regain access to food, experts say.

In this TIME magazine piece about the potential consequences of famine in #Gaza, SHP's Ruth Gibson notes effects of starvation can persist long after people regain access to food.

“What we can’t see is the generational and intergenerational impacts."

Research links 19th-century land program to sharp rise in Native American mortality New findings reveal the devastating consequences of a federal policy that promised land and citizenship to Native communities, but led to widespread land loss and a surge in mortality rates.

New findings by Stanford researchers reveal the devastating consequences of the Dawes Act, a federal policy that promised land and citizenship but led to widespread land loss and a surge in mortality rates among Native communities.
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Research Matters Groundbreaking innovations that begin in Stanford labs flow freely into private industry to improve human well-being, fuel the economy, and strengthen American competitiveness.

Research Matters: Federal investments in foundational
Stanford research launched the computer age in Silicon Valley and have contributed to the development of radar, GPS, heart transplants, artificial intelligence, MRI scans, and the internet. bit.ly/4mmzyhR

What does brain science teach us about addiction, and how can it guide policy?

Stanford addiction expert & policy advisor Keith Humphreys (@stanfordpsy.bsky.social, @stanfordhp.bsky.social) shares the science of substance use & how it intersects with public health & politics.

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YouTube video by FSIStanford Sanctions and Security in a Changing Global Order with Ruth Gibson | World Class

SHP research scholar Ruth Gibson joins @fsi.stanford.edu's Mike @mcfaulmike.bsky.social on his World Class podcast to share sobering data on how ending foreign aid and the dissolution of #USAID could eventually cost millions of lives, particularly among women and children.

Sanctions and Security in a Changing Global Order Podcast Episode · World Class · 07/07/2025 · 16m

What happens when the costs of sanctions intersect with, or cause, humanitarian crises? SHP research scholar Ruth Gibson joins World Class to discuss the latest research into how sanctions impact child and maternal mortality locally, and the stability of the global order as a whole. #Stanford

When it comes to vaccines, how are pediatricians restoring trust? NPR's Pien Huang speaks with pediatrician Alexandra Cvijanovich and Professor Jason L. Schwartz about trying to shore up trust about vaccines.

Joined @npr.org’s All Things Considered for a conversation about all of the turmoil in vaccine policy these days, trust in vaccines, and the critical role of pediatricians now (and always) in vaccine decision-making by parents. www.npr.org/2025/07/07/n...

Survival rates for cancer patients on immunotherapy depend on insurance coverage, study finds Survival rates in cancer patients on immune checkpoint inhibitors depended on their insurance coverage, new study found.

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Supreme Court rejects challenge to free preventive care, bolsters RFK Jr.'s power The SCOTUS decision preserves free preventive health care and sets the stage for a bigger role for RFK Jr. in determining what's covered.

The Supreme Court's decision to uphold requirements for health insurers to cover certain preventive services is "a win for preventive care access," says SHP's Joshua Salomon, but "at a cost." via @statnews.com

Supportive housing offers cost-effective response to homelessness and opioid use A new study shows that providing housing without requiring prior drug treatment produces major public health gains and cost savings.

A study by SHP's & @StanfordEng's Margaret Brandeau shows that providing housing without requiring prior drug treatment produces major public health gains and cost savings. “If you’re living on the streets, you’re not going to be successfully treated for your opioid use disorder."

Senate passes Trump’s tax-cut bill that would slash Medicaid spending The Senate has passed a $4.5 trillion tax cut bill after last-minute changes to its health care provisions, as Republicans scrambled to get their party on board.

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Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act’s preventive-care mandate The challengers argued that members of the Preventive Services Task Force were improperly appointed because they were not approved by the Senate.

SCOTUS keeps ACA preventive care mandate, but only by stressing that HHS can fire USPSTF members or block or undo Task Force recommendations. That’s a win for access, but it puts evidence-based care on a political leash.

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Legal Risks and Rewards of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Stanford Health Policy researchers address issues of liability risk and the ethical use of AI in health care, making the case for tools that address liability and risk—while making patient safety and ...

Stanford Health Policy researchers address issues of liability risk and the ethical use of #AI in health care, making the case for tools that address liability and risk—while making patient safety and concerns a priority.

The Civilian Health Costs of Aid Sanctions | Think Global Health A new study examines how aid sanctions deepen global health inequality

The global #health magazine @thinkglobalhealth.org features research by SHP postdoc research fellow Ruth Gibson, whose study published in @TheLancet Global Health found that while sanctions are "an imperative tool to prevent or stop war," they also deepen global health inequity.

Rosenkranz Prize Honors Innovators Tackling Public Health in Mexico Two Stanford researchers are working on projects to fight antimicrobial resistance and colorectal cancer in Mexico

Two Stanford researchers win the 2025 Rosenkranz Prize for their bold public health efforts in Mexico—tackling the urgent threat of antimicrobial resistance and designing a national colorectal cancer screening program for those most at risk.

YouTube video by Stanford Medicine What We’ve Learned in a Year | Stanford's RAISE Health Symposium 2025

Watch @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social RAISE Health faculty leaders as they explore the current state of AI in biomedicine—highlighting key advances from the past year that demonstrate how #AI is reshaping the future of health and medicine.

Stanford Health AI week convenes experts in AI, biomedicine, education, pediatrics and policy Speakers focused on artificial intelligence in health and medicine — from the misuse of AI technology and how to avoid it, to the unique opportunities for developing AI technologies in pediatrics.

At Stanford Health AI week, speakers focused on artificial intelligence in health and medicine — from the misuse of AI technology and how to avoid it, to the unique opportunities for developing AI technologies in pediatrics. stan.md/43UKeN1

Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.

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US Life Expectancy Lags—But It’s Worse for the Aging `Forgotten Middle’ A new study finds lower-middle-class Americans are experiencing a sharp decline in health and well-being—especially those approaching retirement

Visiting Scholar Jack Rowe & @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social epidemiologist David Rehkopf study on the health of lower-middle-class Americans: “If current trends persist, the current 50-59-year-old population will be entering retirement ages with substantially worse health than previous generations.”

Eight academic health policy researchers present their global health projects—from Ethiopia to China to Argentina and beyond—during our annual #RosenkranzGlobal health symposium. See the slideshow.
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Valuing Wildfire Smoke Related Mortality Benefits from Climate Mitigation Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

In a new paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, @marshallburke.bsky.social and colleagues outline a new framework for how to better incorporate data about climate-induced wildfire smoke into estimates of the societal and economic costs of climate change.

How Trump Administration can tackle America's addiction problems: Experts The "opioid crisis" claimed the lives of over 80,000 Americans last year, and that figure was a 27 percent drop on the drug overdose death toll in 2023.

SHP's Keith Humphreys tells Newsweek the Trump admin could tackle US #opioid crisis by investing more in prevention to reduce number of people who develop the disorder in the first place.

"It thus costs more to cover the health care for someone with a substance use disorder than without," he says.

Sanctions and Humanitarian Outcomes Our forthcoming comment in the Lancet Global Health.

Watch: SHP's Ruth Gibson on upcoming comment in The Lancet Global Health about the double-edged sword of sanctions. While health scholars find sanctions detrimental to health, they're a geopolitical tool to end wars or punish regimes for crimes against humanity.
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SHP"s Jason Wang and Ruth Gibson are working w/Taiwanese leaders in defense studies for civilian well-being, especially for children and women. In this Taipei Times editorial, they discuss health system capacity, supply chain reliability and community stability for naval blockades. bit.ly/3FuG3Pw

Qinyou Hu @utaustin.bsky.social presents research at Rosenkranz global health symposium on teen depression in China, noting ⬆️ ⬆️ among adolescents. Believes interventions to get parents to believe their children's abilities & interest = potential cure toward ⬇️ depression.
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Jon Denton-Schneider of Clark University notes 1/3 of new HIV infections in Zimbabwe hit 15-to-24-year-old women; they comprise only 1/10 of population. His research finds nationwide deworming program for schistosomiasis in children can lower chance of young women contracting HIV. bit.ly/4mpYUMk

Luiz Felipe Campos Fontes Insper research institute in Brazil gives evidence at Rosenkranz symposium about outsourcing management of hospital operations to private nonprofits under gov’t control. Finds hospital production up by 35%, access 20% and 3% in reduced mortality. Learn More: bit.ly/4drtTni

Virus expert Peter Piot (center) with our 2025 Rosenkranz Prize winners Jorge Luis Salinas and Fernando Alarid-Escudero, both of whom are devoted to improving public health in Mexico by fighting antimicrobial resistance and establishing a national colorectal cancer screening program. bit.ly/3OtRGHm