E&PH Monthly News Bulletin
Your resource for the latest department news
|
|
Lisa Goldman Rosas receives SBM's Award for Health Engagement
January 13, 2022. Warm congratulations to Lisa Goldman Rosas for being honored with the Society of Behavioral Medicine's (SBM's) Jessie Gruman Award for Health Engagement! It is a tremendous achievement to be chosen for this prestigious national award, which recognizes outstanding work in, and commitment to, patient engagement and health equity.
Read more about Dr. Goldman Rosas
|
|
|
Jade Benjamin-Chung named Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator
January 11, 2022. Following a competition for individual awards, E&PH faculty researcher Jade Benjamin-Chung has been selected to join the second cohort of scientists to be named Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators. (The first competition for individual awards was held in 2016, for awards beginning 2017, and a competition for team-based awards was held in 2018). The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Program, open to faculty from Stanford University, UC San Francisco, and UC Berkeley, funds innovative, visionary research with the goal of building and sustaining an engaged, interactive, and collaborative community of researchers that spans across disciplines and across the three campuses to help solve critical challenges in biomedicine.
Read the CZ press release
Access the Stanford announcement
|
|
|
ABFM and Stanford PHS support CDC to monitor COVID-19 Incidence, Prevalence and Long-Term Symptoms
December 16, 2021. The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) and the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS), directed by E&PH faculty researcher David Rehkopf, have entered into a contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to apply a new initiative to monitor social inequalities in COVID-19 and assess the prevalence and severity of long-term symptoms of COVID-19.
Read more about the initiative in the full release
|
|
|
PHS Awarded a $1M RWJF Sub-Contract to Develop Social Determinants Indices That Can Guide Medicare Payments
December 13, 2021. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has awarded a new $1M, two-year grant to support “Testing the predicting power of social determinants of health indices on outcomes to improve medicare payment,” a research collaboration between the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation (ABFM), the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS), and the U.S. Census Bureau. David Rehkopf is the Stanford PI. The period of the grant began on December 1, 2021 and will carry through November 30, 2023.
Read the full release
|
|
|
|
Shiying Hao, Research Data Analyst, Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS)
|
|
Mathew Kiang, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Population Health
|
|
|
Tracy Lam-Hine, Epidemiologist, Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS)
|
|
Alexis Reeves, Propel Postdoctoral Scholar, Epidemiology & Population Health, Odden Lab
|
|
|
Andrea Villaroman, Research Data Analyst, Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS)
|
|
Andrew Wang, Senior Financial Analyst, Epidemiology & Population Health
|
|
Are we missing lupus in males? Evidence of cognitive bias from a randomized experiment in the United States
January 1, 2022. Using a randomized survey design, E&PH researchers Julia Simard [pictured here], Nada Rizk, Amadeia Rector, Titilola Falasinnu and colleagues asked whether the diagnosis a patient receives varies when all that differs is their sex or race. Among participating rheumatologists, male case vignettes were less likely to be diagnosed as systemic lupus compared to female versions of the case vignette - in particular Black females vs White males. Consequently, assigning characteristics of the population to the individual may lead to diagnostic errors. This is especially salient in SLE, an infrequent, heterogeneous disease. The authors acknowledge that the lack of an “average” patient in SLE may contribute to the need to find a heuristic that aids clinical decision-making.
Access the study
|
|
|
Knowledge Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities in Health and Prevention Research for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: A Report From the 2021 National Institutes of Health Workshop
January 3, 2021. Research on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, & Pacific Islanders subgroups is urgently needed to eliminate disparities and promote health equity in these populations. Ann Hsing co-chaired the NHLBI/NIH workshop featured in this Annals of Internal Medicine article, and Latha Palaniappan also participated.
Access the report
Read the Stanford CIGH release
|
|
|
Protecting at-risk patients by tracking COVID-19 antibodies
December 17, 2021. "This could help inform vaccination schedules and help to motivate high-risk patients to get a booster shot," said Shuchi Anand, MD, an assistant professor of nephrology and the lead author of the study. This StanfordMed Scope Blog post features research also conducted by E&PH faculty researchers Julie Parsonnet and Glenn Chertow.
Access the Scope Blog post
|
|
|
Differences in COVID-19 Risk by Race and County-Level Social Determinants of Health among Veterans
December 13, 2021. E&PH postdoctoral researcher Hoda S. Abdel Magid and colleagues at VA Palo Alto Healthcare System released the results of their latest COVID-19 disparities research in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Access full-text article
|
|
|
The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids
December 9, 2021. An international consortium of researchers, led by E&PH faculty researcher Themistocles (Tim) Assimes [pictured here], published a new genetics study of blood cholesterol levels in Nature. They show that using genomes from a diverse pool of people improves the ability to predict an individual’s risk of having high cholesterol.
Access the publication
Read the Nature Research Briefing
|
|
|
Winter 2022 Epi Seminar Series has begun
Our weekly Epidemiology Research Seminars (EPI 236) Winter 2022 series has begun with talks by E&PH faculty, David Rehkopf and Julia Simard. We hope you will be able to join us for the following upcoming seminars. For event details as they become available, reference our program web calendar.
1/25 Non-Academic Research Career Roundtable with: Stelios Serghiou, MD, PhD, MS, AI Resident Healthcare at Google; Christophe Toukam Tchakoute, PhD, Scientist at 23andMe; and Eileen Leary, PhD, RPSGT, Clinical Scientist Lead, Jazz Pharmaceuticals
2/1 Rachel Whitmer, PhD, Professor and Chief, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis, TBA
2/8 John Witte, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, and of Biomedical Data Science, TBA
2/15 Thesis Presentations with: Epidemiology & Clinical Research Graduate Students, Stephanie Lee, MD; and Siqi Cao
|
|
|
2022 Virtual JEDI Office Hours
Next sessions are February 4th and March 4th, 1-1:30pm PDT.
Description: The E&PH Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) Committee has launched office hours for community members to share their ideas, ask questions, and voice concerns related to JEDI. These office hours will take place the first Friday of each month. Contact Katie Kanagawa (kkanagaw@stanford.edu) for dial-in details.
Read more about our JEDI committee and initiatives
|
|
|
|
|
December 17, 2021. Watch a new (1 min) event teaser for this trans-disciplinary seminar, co-hosted by the Center for Population Health Sciences and our Department of Epidemiology & Population Health and focused on what is needed to create a more robust and impactful public health system that can both respond in a crisis and address persistent inequities in health outcomes.
|
|
|
December 13, 2021. We have launched a new informational resource for our academic community members: a list of Important Annual Epi Meetings that includes key abstract submission deadlines. We hope you find this useful as you plan for the coming new year. Please reach out to Katie Kanagawa (kkanagaw@stanford.edu) to submit Epi or focus-area meetings to add to the list.
|
|
*If you would like to submit items for potential inclusion in upcoming issues of this E&PH News Bulletin or other department communications channels, please fill out this webform. Reach out to our Communications Manager, Katie M. Kanagawa (kkanagaw@stanford.edu), with any questions.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
