AI Outperforms Traditional Methods in Controlling Disease Spread Between Prisons and Communities
A reinforcement learning AI model used by SHP researchers achieved high reductions in infections with far fewer resources used for testing and much less intense non-pharmaceutical interventions.
AI-augmented Class Tackles National Security Challenges of the Future
In classes taught through the Gordian Knot Center, artificial intelligence is taking a front and center role in helping students find innovative solutions to global policy issues.
DREAMS Center for Diabetes Translational Research national enrichment program meeting draws early stage investigators focused on diabetes equity research.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine updates its 20-year-old report on inequities in the U.S. health-care system, with expert advise from Stanford Health Policy researchers.
Stanford Medicine researchers Jonathan Chen and Mary K. Goldstein are using data science and machine learning to help doctors make better informed decisions and health-care facilities to adopt a precision stewardship approach to combatting antimicrobial resistance.
Stanford Law School students research and advocate for stronger regulation of lawyer-enablers of Russian sanctions evasion, led by professor Erik Jensen.
In his new advisory on the public health crisis of firearm violence, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy cites research by Stanford Health Policy's Maya Rossin-Slater which lays out the devastating long-term impacts of school shootings on the classmates who survive them.
Anna Grzymala-Busse's book "Sacred Foundations" has been awarded the American Political Science Association's J. David Greenstone Award and the Hubert Morken Best Book in Religion and Politics Award. Erin Baggott Carter and Brett Carter's book "Propaganda in Autocracies" has won the Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award from the International Journal of Press/Politics.
Kathryn Stoner, Mosbacher Director of CDDRL, discussed the politics and complexities of the anti-foreign agent law and its implications for Georgia's future.
In July 2024, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law will welcome a diverse cohort of 26 experienced practitioners from 21 countries who are working to advance democratic practices and economic and legal reform in contexts where freedom, human development, and good governance are fragile or at risk.
At the graduation ceremony for the Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy Class of 2024, human rights and climate activist Kumi Naidoo commissioned the new alumni to pursue the numerous challenges facing the world with kindness, creativity, and responsibility.
Skylar Coleman and Maya Rosales jointly delivered the student remarks at the graduation ceremony for the Class of 2024 of the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy.
Paul Wise and Lauren Stoffel concede U.S. immigration policy has always experienced big ups and downs. What makes this moment unique, they write in this commentary, is that the contentious public sentiment is bearing down on an unprecedented number of unaccompanied children.
Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium keynote speaker Mark Dybul talks about the great strides in international health systems over the last 25 years—but calls on next generation to disrupt a system that has become stagnant.
The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law’s Poverty, Violence, and Governance Lab, in collaboration with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, invited a panel of scholars to discuss the implications of Mexico’s elections and to analyze the political context in which they were held.
Bruce Cain argues that the federalist nature of the U.S., along with regional history and idiosyncratic human behavior, have made resolving collective action problems uniquely difficult.
At a gathering for alumni, the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy program hosted four experts to discuss the ramifications of AI on global security, the environment, and political systems.