Joshua Salomon: Pairing Science with Policy to Combat Pandemic

Joshua Salomon: Pairing Science with Policy to Combat Pandemic

In this Frontiers in Medicine flash talk, SHP's Joshua Salomon explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the urgent need to pair advances in scientific discovery with programs and policies that ensure all people can benefit from these breakthroughs.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the urgent need to pair advances in scientific discovery with programs and policies that ensure all people can benefit from these breakthroughs. Joshua Salomon, PhD, professor of health policy and director of Stanford’s Prevention Policy Modeling Lab, shares how researchers in Stanford’s new Department of Health Policy are fusing state-of-the-art methods from decision science, health economics, health services research, and data science to shape policies that improve health and wellbeing on a population scale.

He spoke at Stanford Medicine's annual Frontiers in Medicine—a virtual event honoring the transformative power of science. You can listen to leaders across Stanford Medicine—including David Entwistle, president and CEO of Stanford Health Care, and Stanford School of Medicine Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, who joined Condoleezza Rice for a special musical performance of Robert Schumann’s Fantasy Pieces, Opus 73.

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Joshua Salomon

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