Building a 21st century infrastructure for monitoring inequality, developing policy, and training a new generation of leaders
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Children from unemployed miners’ homes, West Virginia, 1937
This week’s spotlight scholar, David Rehkopf, is dedicated to understanding how we can build policy that reduces health inequalities over the life course. “My most recent work, and the work I'm most excited about going forward, combines large individual-level health data—whether from traditional panel surveys, electronic health records, or medical claims—with individual-level census data. These linked data are the tool of the future when it comes to understanding the effects of life course social exposures on health,” says Rehkopf, who is a professor in the School of Medicine. In his current research, Rehkopf is examining the effects of New Deal policies on long-term health outcomes and the effects of social and environmental exposures on health and medical care.
The Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, which Rehkopf directs, helps Stanford researchers study the impacts of clinical, social, economic, and environmental exposures on health outcomes. Because these datasets have health-related outcomes on millions of individuals, it becomes possible to detect small effect sizes, to study rare exposures and outcomes, to examine heterogeneous exposure effects across subgroups, and much more.
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National Poverty Fellows Program
The Institute for Research on Poverty is calling for applications for a postdoctoral fellow to be in residence at the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families. Applications are due by December 3, 2021.
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How the Other Half Eats
Join the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Center on Poverty and Inequality, and the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society for a conversation with sociologist Priya Fielding-Singh as she discusses her powerful new book on the state of our nation’s food injustices.
Wednesday, December 1, 4pm
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The Afterlife of Colonialism
This panel examines the accumulated social, political, and economic events of colonialism that lead to poverty, inequality, or violence today.
Friday, November 19, 12pm
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Re-Designing Public Health for Health Equity
A transdisciplinary seminar on what it would take to create a public health system that can respond in a crisis and address persistent inequities in health outcomes.
Monday, December 6, 1pm
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