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Joshua Salomon
Professor of Medicine (Primary Care and Outcomes Research), Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Health Research and Policy (Health Services Research)
Bio Joshua Salomon is a Professor of Medicine and a core faculty member in the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research. His research focuses on priority-setting in global health, within three main substantive areas: (1) measurement and valuation of health outcomes; (2) modeling patterns and trends in major causes of global mortality and disease burden; and (3) evaluation of health interventions and policies.
Dr. Salomon is an investigator on projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, relating to modeling of infectious and chronic diseases and associated intervention strategies; methods for economic evaluation of public health programs; measurement of the global burden of disease; and assessment of the potential impact and cost effectiveness of new health technologies.
He is Director of the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab, which is a multi-institution research consortium that conducts health and economic modeling relating to infectious disease. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Dr. Salomon was Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. -
Rachel Schwartz
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Primary Care and Outcomes Research
Bio Rachel Schwartz completed an AcademyHealth Delivery System Science postdoctoral fellowship at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, where she conducted a four-site study exploring neurologists’ perspectives on the facilitators and barriers to care delivery for patients with Parkinson’s disease. She then spent a year working in quality improvement at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Department of Complex Care, where she was responsible for developing new operational protocol for supporting providers in delivering high-quality family-centered care.
Dr. Schwartz is currently a member of the Stanford Presence 5 team, led by Dr. Donna Zulman and Dr. Abraham Verghese. She is also collaborating on projects related to physician wellness and developing new protocol to support the early identification of palliative and spiritual care needs of geriatric patients in the Emergency Department.
