EPH Research News
Dr. Hsing to lead International Consortium on Cancer Biomarkers for Early Detection and Prevention (INTERCEPT)
November 1, 2024 - EPH professor Ann Hsing was recently awarded a large research collaboration contract by Roche/Genentech to lead the International Consortium on Cancer Biomarkers for Early Detection and Prevention (INTERCEPT), a new study to investigate biomarkers for multiple cancer early detection (MCD). INTERCEPT will collaborate with seven clinics at Stanford as well as seven institutions across five countries (the United States, Ghana, Israel, Japan, and Taiwan) to collect biological samples, clinical data, and epidemiologic risk factor data from 2,560 untreated cancer patients with esophageal, lung, stomach, liver, pancreatic, colorectal, or ovarian cancer and 1,280 matched healthy controls to identify blood-based biomarkers for MCD research. To learn more, please contact Ann Hsing or email the study.
Dr. Goldman Rosas' produce prescription program featured by Fox5NY
August 1, 2024 - Dr. Goldman Rosas was featured in a new Fox 5 New York segment discussing the benefits of a Food as Medicine program that provides prescriptions for affordable produce based on patients' needs.
Dr. Cardenas explains PFAS in new Stanford Scope blog
July 25, 2024 - Headlines about a group of chemicals known as PFAS often focus on their potential health risks, but many people remain confused about what, if anything, they should do to protect themselves from PFAS. Dr. Cardenas has analyzed years of national health data to uncover how PFAS exposure changes people's health. In this article, he and other Stanford experts share what they know about PFAS - and what the public should understand about potential health risks.
New study finds more Black Americans die from effects of air pollution
July 16, 2024 - A new study by Stanford researchers, including EPH professor Mathew Kiang, found that Black Americans are significantly more likely to die from causes related to air pollution compared with other racial and ethnic groups. Black Americans suffer from more exposure to polluted air along with more susceptibility to its adverse health effects because of societal disadvantages.
New report finds significant lack of data and research on chronic conditions affecting women is hindering diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
July 10, 2024 - EPH professor Julia Simard sits on a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine committee that recently released a report that calls on the National Institutes of Health and other relevant federal research agencies to enhance their research efforts to better understand chronic conditions in women.
Healthy eating and activity reverse aging marker in kids with obesity
January 19, 2024 – A new study led by EPH professor David Rehkopf finds a genetic marker linked to premature aging was reversed in children with obesity during a six-month diet and exercise program.
New study finds metastatic breast cancer treatments have aided decline in deaths
January 17, 2024 – Dr. Allison Kurian, professor of medicine and of epidemiology and population health, is a co-senior author of a new study that finds deaths from breast cancer dropped 58% between 1975 and 2019 due to a combination of screening mammography and improvements in treatment.
Parsonnet finds "normal" body temperature is personal
Unlocking the Potential of Genetic-Based Prostate Cancer Screening
September 28, 2023 - Prostate cancer is a complex disease with varying degrees of aggressiveness. Understanding of the disease and methods for screening and diagnosis have been rapidly evolving over the years, in part due to research by Stanford Medicine Epidemiology and Population Health professors John Witte and Linda Kachuri. In honor of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Witte and Dr. Kachuri discuss their genetic-based prostate cancer research and a groundbreaking approach changing the landscape of prostate cancer screening.
Bondy, Rehkopf to study effect of guaranteed income on cancer incidence in impoverished communities
Few patients receive recommended genetic testing after cancer diagnosis
Personalized PSA levels could improve prostate cancer screening
Genes linked to familial brain cancer identified in study led by EPH Chair Melissa Bondy
Antibiotics after breast cancer linked to poorer survival, Stanford Medicine-led study finds
“These findings offer insight into the role of the immune system, and factors that may perturb its function, in fighting the most aggressive type of breast cancer,” said Allison Kurian, a senior author of the study and professor of medicine and epidemiology and population health at Stanford. “Gaining a better understanding of this process will be important to guide patient care.”
Effects of COVID Shelter-in-Place Confinement on Diabetes Prevention Health Behaviors
Reconciling between medication orders and medication fills for Lupus in pregnancy.
Associations among romantic and sexual partner history and muscle dysmorphia symptoms, disordered eating, and appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs and supplement use among cisgender gay men
March 1, 2022. The journal Body Image just published the latest findings from The PRIDE Study. This study is important because it is one of the first to investigate how relationship status and number of sexual partners may be related to eating and body disorders among cisgender gay men. This study suggests that discussions about sexual partners and muscularity pressures among gay men could help explain study findings. Authored by E&PH faculty researchers Juno Obedin-Maliver and Mitchell Lunn and collaborators.
Do Ask, Tell, and Show: Contextual Factors Affecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Disclosure for Sexual and Gender Minority People
January 21, 2022. "Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people—including members of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities—remain underrepresented in health research due to poor collection of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data. [In this paper, E&PH faculty researchers Mitchell Lunn (pictured here) and Juno Obedin-Maliver] sought to understand the contextual factors affecting how SGM research participants interact with SOGI questions to enhance participant experience and increase the accuracy and sensitivity of research findings."
The Role of Citizen Science in Promoting Health Equity
November 1, 2021. E&PH faculty researchers Lisa Goldman Rosas [pictured here], Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa and Abby King and colleague collaborated on this new publication in Annual Review of Public Health, summarizing the literature on citizen science and making recommendations for future efforts.
Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill
October 11, 2021. Members of the E&PH research community, including Ben Huynh (first author), Mathew Kiang and David Rehkopf, model the immediate public health impacts of a simulated massive oil spill in the Red Sea, which is "increasingly likely."
A Novel Model for Generating Creative, Community-Responsive Interventions to Reduce Gender-Based Violence on College Campuses
August 24, 2021. E&PH researchers Sophia Graham, Abby King, and Mike Baiocchi, and Stanford colleagues, released a new publication on a gender-based violence project undertaken here at Stanford, employing an Our Voice citizen science model for understanding college campus community factors affecting sexual violence risk. The article was recently published in the International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health. [The Our Voice logo is pictured here].
Prevalence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), United States, 2016
August 23, 2021. In this Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration study, E&PH community researchers Lorene Nelson [pictured here] and Barb Topol and colleagues estimate the prevalence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the United States for 2016 using data from the National ALS Registry.
Putative pathogen-selected polymorphisms in the PKLR gene are associated with mycobacterial susceptibility in Brazilian and African populations
August 15, 2021. In this PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases study, E&PH faculty researcher Ann Hsing and colleagues examined an example of an evolutionary trade-off in which genetic variants in the PKLR gene putatively selected for malaria resistance influence the susceptibility to mycobacterial diseases (leprosy and tuberculosis) in Brazilian population and Mozambique.
Association between contact with a general practitioner and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown: a large community-based study in Hangzhou, China
August 13, 2021. E&PH researchers Yan Min [pictured here], Ann Hsing and colleagues aimed to determine the association of general practitioner (GP) contact with depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in China in this BMJ Open study.
Clinical Outcomes, Echocardiographic Findings, and Care Quality Metrics for People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Uganda
August 12, 2021. Epidemiology & Clinical Research PhD Student, Andrew Chang, MD, and colleagues published the first epidemiologic profile of the longitudinal outcomes of people living with both rheumatic heart disease and HIV in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The timed 25-foot walk in a large cohort of multiple sclerosis patients
June 8, 2021. E&PH researchers, including lead author Anissa Kalinowski, Nina Bozinov, Jessica Hinman, Mike Hittle, Michelle Odden (pictured here), and Lorene Nelson, and colleagues released recent findings in Multiple Sclerosis that support the continued use of the timed 25-foot walk (T25FW) in clinical practice and clinical trials.
