Informed Population Health Opinions (INPHO)
Navigating today’s media landscape can be confusing, especially when it comes to topics of public health. Misinformation, contradicting opinions and evolving data make it difficult to understand health risks. Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences’ new Informed Population Health Opinions (INPHO) project aims to provide clear, unbiased information on today’s most pressing public and population health issues.
In each INPHO survey, the INPHO team chooses a topic and sends three statements to leading epidemiologists, public health and population health experts. Experts rate to what extent they agree or disagree with the statements and assess their confidence in their own opinions.
Results of previous INPHO surveys can be found in the "View Other Surveys" drop-down menu in the box below.
The experts are surveyed on a regular basis to obtain their opinions on pertinent population health topics. Responses are recorded on a hundred-point scale ranging from “Strongly Disagree” (max = -50) to “Strongly Agree” (max = 50) with “No Opinion” or refusing to answer as available options. Experts also express their confidence on a hundred-point scale, where zero indicates extremely low confidence and one hundred extremely high confidence. In the event when the experts have overlapping confidence and agreement levels, the values of their agreement and confidence levels have been slightly "jittered" so that all their responses will be displayed on the scatterplot. This does not change the opinion of the experts, and the true values of their responses are still represented in the histogram and table. Optional comments and additional resources to support the answers are allowed. The results of the survey are displayed below. The INPHO project welcomes the public to submit suggested topics and questions to guide the content of the survey.
Tarik Benmarhnia
- Associate Professor
- University of California, San Diego
- Epidemiology; causal inference; climate change and health
Usama Bilal
- Assistant Professor
- Drexel University
- Social Epidemiology
Courtney Boen
- Assistant Professor
- University of Pennsylvania
- Population health; demography; racial health disparities
Richard Carpiano
- Professor
- University of California, Riverside
- Population and Public Health, Health disparities, Vaccination acceptance and policy, social and behavioral science
Joan Casey
- Assistant Professor
- Mailman School of Public Health
- Environmental epidemiology, spatial statistics, climate change, environmental justice
Ralph Catalano
- Emeritus
- University of California, Berkeley
- Epidemiology, economics
Lynne Cossman
- Professor
- University of Texas - San Antonio
- Spatial health disparities and access to care
Jennifer Dowd
- Professor
- University of Oxford
- Demography & Epidemiology
Holly Elser
- Neurology Resident
- University of Pennsylvania
- Epidemiology
Lakshmi Ganapathi
- Instructor
- Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Global Health
Alison Gemmill
- Assistant Professor
- Johns Hopkins University
- Demography, Epidemiology, Social Determinants of Health, Maternal and Child Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Tiffany Green
- Assistant Professor
- Univeresity of Wisconsin - Madison
- Economics, population health, reproductive health, health equity
Jodie Guest
- Professor
- Emory University
- Infectious diseases, HIV, COVID-19, Monkeypox; emergency preparedness; science communication
George Kaplan
- Emeritus
- University of Michigan, Nova Institute for Health
- Social epidemiology, public health, population health
Jay Kaufman
- Professor
- McGill University
- Epidemiology
Brian Kelly
- Professor
- Purdue University
- Substance use
Josiah Kephart
- Assistant Professor
- Drexel University
- Environmental epidemiology
Katherine Keyes
- Professor
- Columbia University
- Epidemiology
Mathew Kiang
- Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health
- Stanford University
- Computational epidemiology, social epidemiology
Jonathan Levy
- Professor
- Boston University
- Environmental health, air pollution, housing, energy
Paula Lantz
- Professor
- University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy
- Population health; public health policy; health equity; social policy
Alina Schnake-Mahl
- Assistant Professor
- Drexel University
- Public Health - Social Epidemiology
Pricila Mullachery
- Assistant Professor
- Temple University
- Health disparities
Matthew Pantell
- Assistant Professor
- University of California, San Francisco
- Social determinants/drivers of health, social needs, social informatics, social epidemiology, social isolation, adverse childhood experiences, pediatrics, pediatric hospital medicine, implementation science
Julia Raifman
- Assistant Professor
- Boston University
- Health and social policies
Leslie Root
- Assistant Research Professor
- Colorado University
- Population health and policy
Anne Sosin
- Clinical Researcher
- Dartmouth College
- Public health
Erin Strumpf
- Associate Professor
- McGill University
- Health economics, health policy
Elizabeth Stuart
- Professor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Statistics, mental health, causal inference
Deshira Wallace
- Assistant Professor
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Racialization; chronic disease prevention and management; type 2 diabetes; psychosocial stress; Latine health; Latin American health
Margaret Weden
- Professor
- RAND Corporation; Pardee RAND Graduate School
- Social Epidemiology, social demography
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
- Assistant Professor
- University of Minnesota
- Mortality, racial disparities, demographic modeling
Fred Zimmerman
- Professor
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Population health, health economics, health equity
These views represent the opinions of the individuals listed here and by no means represent the opinions of their affiliated institutions or Stanford University.