New Frontiers in Precision Population Health & Health Equity Seminar Series
We collaborate with partners to organize community events around advancing precision population health and reducing health disparities.
Across the globe, we are plagued by significant health inequalities: low-income populations suffer from many more health issues than wealthier populations, and profound racial inequalities persist, amplified and reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The New Frontiers in Precision Population Health and Health Equity Seminar Series aims to bring together public health professionals, policymakers, academics, and industry collaborators to explore how a precision population approach can be utilized to advance health equity for marginalized populations. While precision medicine has significantly advanced patient care, reducing health disparities at the population-level requires a precision population approach. This approach must leverage big data, AI, and digital innovations to create very targeted population health policies and interventions that can dramatically improve the health of underserved communities.
Upcoming Events
AI, Precision Health, & Health Equity: Opportunities & Pitfalls Panel Session
Part of AI + Health Online Conference, hosted by Stanford HAI
December 8, 2021, 8:45-9:45am PT
Speakers:
- Irene Dankwa-Mullan, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Deputy Chief Health Officer, IBM Watson Health
- Ivor Horn, MD, MPH, Director, Health Equity & Product Inclusion, Google
- Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
- Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS (Moderator), Professor of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health) and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology & Population Health at Stanford University, and Associate Faculty Director of Education, Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences
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Recent Events
Harnessing Digital Technologies to Advance Global Precision Health & Development Panel Session
Event Date: June 23, 2021.
Speakers:
- Stephen Luby, Panel Moderator, Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute and Professor, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University
- Brigitte Gosselink, Keynote Speaker, Director of Product Impact, Google.org
- Giulio De Leo, Professor of Biology and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
- Manisha Bhinge, Managing Director, Programs, Health Initiative
The Rockefeller Foundation
Description: A panel of experts from Stanford, Google.org, and The Rockefeller Foundation recently discussed digital technology's vast potential to promote precision public health and its many challenges. Each panelist presented on their innovative approaches to some of the world's biggest health problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic, air pollution, and schistosomiasis (an environmentally transmitted disease).
Strategies to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign
Event Date: April 28, 2021.
Speaker: Marissa Reitsma, PhD Student in Health Policy and Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Epidemiology & Population Health
Description: Marissa Reitsma discussed ongoing data modeling work that examines how strategies focusing on geographic dose allocation, access barriers, and vaccine acceptance can affect both overall population benefits from COVID-19 vaccination and racial/ethnic disparities in the distribution of these benefits.
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Virtual Fireside Chat with Dean Minor & Melissa Bondy on Health Equity and Precision & Population Health
Event Date: March 22, 2021.
Speakers:
- Lloyd B. Minor, MD, Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professorship for the Dean of the School of Medicine, Professor of Otolaryngology and, by courtesy, of Neurobiology and Bioengineering
- Melissa Bondy, PhD, Stanford Medicine Discovery Professor and Professor and Chair of Epidemiology & Population Health
Description: Dean Minor and Professor Bondy discussed new directions in health equity, exploring the potential of precision and population health to reduce racial health inequalities, address COVID-19 disparities, and improve health outcomes in developing economies.
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Contact Us
We look forward to hearing from you.
For questions regarding PHS community impact and partnerships, contact Lesley Sept, Executive Director, Center for Population Health Sciences: slesley1@stanford.edu.