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A Conversation on Healthcare in America with Prof. Don Barr

By on October 24, 2014 in
Professor Barr‘s research focuses on the reform of premedical education; minority student attrition from the pre-medical curriculum; expanding access to health care for California’s low-income population; social and economic factors contributing to health disparities; and measuring primary care quality.
Donald Barr is a physician and is Associate Professor of Sociology and Human Biology, and is the founder and director of Stanford’s undergraduate curriculum in health policy. On Friday, he will speak about healthcare in America.
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Kinari Webb Kicks Off Lunch Series

By on October 14, 2014 in Blog Posts

By Matthew Cohen, ’18 On September 29, Stanford in Government hosted Dr. Kinari Webb, founder of Health in Harmony, a non-profit organization in Indonesia devoted to improving environmental health by improving community health. As a student, Webb visited the extraordinarily biodiverse Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo. Illegal logging threatens the park’s future, so Webb realized […]

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