A center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
FSI’s researchers assess health and medicine through the lenses of economics, nutrition and politics. They’re studying and influencing public health policies of local and national governments and the roles that corporations and nongovernmental organizations play in providing health care around the world. Scholars look at how governance affects citizens’ health, how children’s health care access affects the aging process and how to improve children’s health in Guatemala and rural China. They want to know what it will take for people to cook more safely and breathe more easily in developing countries.
FSI professors investigate how lifestyles affect health. What good does gardening do for older Americans? What are the benefits of eating organic food or growing genetically modified rice in China? They study cost-effectiveness by examining programs like those aimed at preventing the spread of tuberculosis in Russian prisons. Policies that impact obesity and undernutrition are examined; as are the public health implications of limiting salt in processed foods and the role of smoking among men who work in Chinese factories. FSI health research looks at sweeping domestic policies like the Affordable Care Act and the role of foreign aid in affecting the price of HIV drugs in Africa.
Second Annual Final Medtech Hackathon Competition
Four teams competing for the grand prize
Refreshments will be provided and a drawing will be held for prizes
Stanford Medicine faculty Randall Stafford, Judith Prochaska, and Michael Baiocchi held a graduate seminar at SCPKU earlier this summer which brought together students from Stanford and Chinese universities to seek solutions to China's growing problems of cancer, stroke and heart disease. Read more.
Speakers:
Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine (Preventive Medicine), Stanford University
Judith Prochaska, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine (Health Psychology), Stanford University
Mike Baiocchi, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research Design), Stanford University
Multiple factors have led to China’s increasing burden of non-communicable diseases, including population aging, globalization of dietary patterns, urbanization, sedentary lifestyles, etc. The country faces new challenges that strain existing health systems and have spawned multiple healthcare reforms. Yet, prevention strategies offer great hopes as China works to tackle such conditions as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer. While China’s situation is of unique magnitude, much of the world is struggling to cope with the increasing burden of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Much could be gained by examining China’s predicament and its response to its chronic disease epidemic.
Experts from both the United States and China will discuss the issue from the following perspectives: well-being – an upstream preventive approach, tobacco and emerging nicotine product, how to become the top country in health research, cancer prevalence and geographic information system. This symposium is also the culmination of the seminar series – “Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer Prevention in China” at the Stanford Center at Peking University. Three student groups will also present their solutions to the problems of preventing obesity among male college students, salt-reduction in university student diets, and prevention of the initiation of smoking in adolescents.
Theis event is open to the public. Please RSVP with Mr. Zhang Sanjiu: sanjiu39@stanford.edu.
9:00 – 9:20 | Opening Remarks: The Social Geography of NCDs
| Randall S. Stafford, MD, PhD |
9:20 – 9:50 | Guest Speaker from Cancer Hospital
| Lei Yang |
9:50-10:10 | Tobacco and Emerging Nicotine Products: from the East and West
| Judith Prochaska, PhD, MPH |
10:10 – 10:30 | How to Become the Top Country in Health Research
| Mike Baiocchi, PhD |
10:30 – 10:50 | Coffee Break
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10:50 – 11:00 | WELL-China: A New Approach to Prevention Research
| Randall Stafford, MD PhD |
11:00-11:05 | Introducing the SCPKU Seminar and the Project Reports
| Yan Min, BM MA |
11:05-11:25 | SALT: Students and Labeling + Technology
| Student Team 1 |
11:25 – 11:45 | A Phone App-Based Behavioral Intervention for Overweight/Obesity Prevention in Chinese Males at the University Transition
| Student Team 2 |
11:45-12:05 | The Effect of Limiting Adolescents’ Exposure to Parental Smoking on Adolescent Girls’ Smoking Incidence and Attitudes Towards Smoking
| Student Team 3 |
12:05 – 12:10 | Concluding Remarks
| Jodi Prochaska, PhD, MPH |
12:10 – 1:30 | Lunch |
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Lee Jung Sen Building, Langrun Yuan
No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District
Beijing, China
This forum will focus on the importance of community health services and primary health care reform in China and discuss the deepening efforts to establish a two-way referral system to help boost access and equality of high-quality medical resources and basic public health services. At this year’s annual forum, distinguished experts will present research examining China’s emerging hierarchical medical system (including insurance payments, referral arrangements, and chronic and acute disease treatment initiatives). Policymakers, providers, and researchers will introduce China's overall policies towards this new system as well as describe the practice and challenges of primary care delivery and innovative approaches of internet-based and integrated medical care systems.
Founded in 1996, Asian Liver Center at Stanford and Peking Universities (ALC) are devoted to the elimination of transmission, stigma, and deaths associated with chronic hepatitis B and liver cancer. On April 22, 2016, ALC will co-host the JoinJade for China Summit: Building Inclusive Workplaces at the Stanford Center at Peking University. 28 leading multinational employers in China will be recognized for their commitment to the JoinJade for China initiative to build healthy, inclusive workplaces free from hepatitis B discrimination.
Summit Agenda
9:00 Reception
9:30 Welcome
Emcee: Dong Qian, CCTV anchorwoman
9:35 Opening remarks
Dr. Samuel So, Director, Asian Liver Center
Jayne Lux, Vice President, Global Business Group on Health
9:50 Keynote speeches
Dr. Bernhard Schwartländer, WHO Representative in China
Dr. Fuqiang Cui, Deputy Director, China CDC National Immunization Program
10:05 Tea break
10:20 Panel discussion
Dr. Samuel So, Director, Asian Liver Center
Dr. Tong Chen, Consulting Occupational Physician, Integrated Health Services, IBM Greater China
Dr. Jean Wu, Medical Director, GE China
Mr. Chuang Lei, Founder, Yiyou Charity
Q & A
10:55 Launching Ceremony
11:05 JoinJade for China Awards Ceremony
11:25 Group picture
11:40 Lunch
For questions, please contact:
Email: xiaojuny@stanford.edu
Phone: +86 (10) 62744167
5 Yiheyuan Road
Haidian District, Beijing
China
The brain works with electricity. Modulating the electrical function of the brain at different sites of the brain can give rise to information about how the brain works and how it may be broken in certain disorders. In the next decades of the century, we will be approaching the field of electriceuticals rather than pharmaceuticals in the treatment of many neuropsychiatric disorders. In this talk, Prof. Parvizi will give an overview of the lessons learned from the time of classical stimulations of the brain until the current technological advancements in this field.
Josef Parvizi MD PHD is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of Stanford Human Intracranial Cognitive Electrophysiology Program. He received his MD from the University of Oslo and PhD in neurosciences from the University of Iowa. He completed his medical internship at Mayo Clinic and Neurology Residency at BIDMC-Harvard before joining the UCLA for fellowship training in Clinical Epilepsy and Neurophysiology. Prof. Parvizi moved to Stanford University in July 2007 and started the Human Intracranial Cognitive Electrophysiology Program (SHICEP). His research is now supported by NIH, Stanford NeuroVentures Program, and Stanford School of Medicine. His expertise is in functional mapping of the human brain using the three methods of electrocorticography, electrical brain stimulation, and functional imaging.
Stanford Center at Peking University, The Lee Jung Sen Building, Langrun Yuan, Peking University
Lecture in English
Chair: Deng Minghua, School of Mathematical Science, Peking University
Speaker: Hua Tang, Associate Professor of Genetics, Courtesy Associate Professor of Statistics, Stanford University
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become a standard approach for identifying loci influencing complex traits. However, GWAS in non-European populations are hampered by limited sample sizes and are thus underpowered. Can GWAS results in one population be exploited to boost the power of mapping loci relevant in another population? In this talk, I will describe a set of analyses, which address the question, “to what extent does the genetic architecture of a complex trait overlap between human populations?” I will next introduce an empirical Bayes approach, which improves the power of mapping trait loci relevant in a specific minority population through adaptively leveraging multi-ethnic evidence. A case study on plasma lipid concentration will be presented.
Bio: Hua Tang received her BS in Biology from Harvard, and PhD in Statistics, with a minor in Genetics, from Stanford University in 2002. From 2002 to 2006, she was on faculty in the PHS division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Hua joined the Stanford Genetics Department in 2007. The goals of her research are to better understand the evolutionary forces that have shaped the pattern of genetic variation in humans, as well as to elucidate the genetic architecture of complex traits and diseases in the context of human evolution.