Global Health
Global health research is a growing field that attempts to capture the health and economic consequences of policies and behaviors that affect the lives of individuals living in resource-limited settings. Research led through the Center for Innovation in Global Health is dedicated to understanding and reducing health disparities, to strengthening human capital, and to engaging Stanford’s multidisciplinary talents to build global health capacity. Research cuts across multiple disciplines, combining epidemiology, health economics, policy, education, and operations research to understanding the causes of disease and strategies to improve health.
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Bendavid in Uganda, 2009
GMD leads a variety of research initiatives in global health:
- Eran Bendavid is an internist and an infectious diseases physician whose research group explores issues at the intersection of global health and policy.
- Rajae Batniji is a resident physician in internal medicine. His research examines the selection of priority diseases and countries in global health, and he is interested in global health financing and the priority-setting process of international institutions.
- Sepideh Modrek works to understand the increasing role of medical professionals in female circumcisions, also known as Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in Egypt.
- Mark Cullen studies sex differences in global mortality, development of NCCD in Bangladesh, the mortality risk from particular matter from brick kilns in Bangladesh, health and safety risks in the microelectronics supply chain in China, and other global health projects including work in Sweden and Denmark.
- Julieta Gabiola leads a variety of projects including work to rebuild medical infrastructure in Tacloban, to use medical mobile clinics to treat patients in the Philippines, to modify lifestyle choices to prevent hypertension. She also provides clinical service in the Philippines through a medical mission.
- David Rehkopf focuses on determining the effects of work and income policies on child development and adult chronic disease and healthy aging. His work in global health has focused on the evaluation of a private sector initiated living wage among apparel factory workers, and the range of effects that this policy has on health and consumption.
- John Kugler has traveled abroad with the Center for Innovation in Global Health’s Johnson & Johnson Global Scholars program to both Indonesia and Uganda. Along with Dr. Brooke Cotter, he now teaches a "Case Based Tropical Medicine Class" to residents to prepare for them to travel abroad