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In the newest edition of the Director's Message, PHS Faculty Director and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Research, Mark Cullen, explores the question "What's a Population Anyway," highlighting the pitfalls and opportunities of population-level data research and providing a sneak peek at new data coming to the PHS data portal in the next few months. Read more here.
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Launch of the Lancet Series on Gender
A new Lancet Series explores how restrictive gender norms affect every aspect of wellbeing. The Series offers new perspectives and evidence on the impact of gender inequalities and norms on health, and the opportunities that exist to transform gender norms and inequalities. Professor Gary Darmstadt, Associate Dean of Maternal and Child Health and PI of the Series, collaborated with over 70 researchers around the world, including our own researchers at the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, to produce evidence as to why gender norms matter to health. In particular, the second paper "Gender Norms & Health: Insights from Global Survey Data" identified how existing surveys can be leveraged to generate gendered pathways that are associated with key health disparities. The Series will be launched in Vancouver at Women Deliver on June 4th.
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PHS Data Spotlight: American Manufacturing Cohort (AMC)
A recent publication in the International Journal of Epidemiology provides an in-depth overview of a rich database linking occupational exposure, claims, human resources, and more to understand work-life experience, health and economic outcomes for a large manufacturing cohort. In this article, Holly Elser and colleagues in a multi-institutional consortium describe the AMC cohort, outline why the cohort was created, what was measured, and what key insights have resulted from the over 20 years of research. To learn more about this incredible resource, which will soon be available to a broader research audience, contact Erika Tribett.
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Foreign Aid for Public Health Bolsters America’s 'Soft Power.'In a new study, PHS researchers found that U.S. government aid for treating children and adults with HIV and malaria in developing countries has done more than expand access to lifesaving interventions: It has changed how people around the world view the United States. The findings were published this week in the American Journal of Public Health. The lead author is PHS postdoctoral scholar Aleksandra Jakubowski, PhD, MPH. The senior author is PHS Faculty Fellow Eran Bendavid, MD. Read more about their work here.
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Learn to Use the Data Portal with Redivis Tutorial Videos The PHS data portal powered by Redivis allows you to efficiently discover and work with our collection of PHS datasets. You can now learn more about how to get started with a set of tutorial videos.
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| EventsState of the Union | Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality
The Millennial Dilemma: State of the Union 2019
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Learn more and register here
Philipp Koellinger, Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
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| Awards
Congratulations PHS Postdoc Elizabeth Wall-Wieler, one of 23 recipients of the 2018-2019 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for her project entitled “Psychotropic Medication Use and Ectopic Pregnancy.” Read more bout the Banting Fellowship here.
Congratulations PHS Postdoc Tome Eftimov! Tome received the "2018 Best Young Scientist" Award from Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov. Read more about the event here.
Congratulations Biomedical Data Science (BDS) Opioid Working Group! The working group, led by PHS Assistant Faculty Director Suzanne Tamang, has won the "Best Poster Award" at the Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations. The group, using data from PHS data partner Foundation for Precision Medicine, presented their poster, "A Knowledge Graph-Based Approach for Exploring the US Opioid Epidemic." Team members include, Maulik R. Kamdar, Tymor Hamamsy, Shea Shelton, Ayin Vala, Tome Eftimov and James Zou. For more information on the poster, contact Shea Zhao, Co-chair, Stanford University Statistics for Social Good.
Congratulations PHS Postdoc Tome Eftimov! Tome was selected as the "Hot Off the Press" winner by the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2019), for his paper "Understanding Exploration and Exploitation Powers of Meta-heuristic Stochastic Optimization Algorithms through Statistical Analysis." Read the paper here.
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| Funding Opportunities
Looking for internal university funding that supports the critical early stage work of Stanford faculty? Visit the Stanford Seed Funding website to view open and upcoming opportunities today!
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