Joe Selby was a founding executive director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Much of his research has focused on diabetes outcomes and quality improvement, as well as primary care delivery, colorectal cancer screening strategies, and disparities in diabetes mellitus treatment effectiveness. 

Katie Attwell is an associate professor with the University of Western Australia School of Social Sciences. Katie specializes in mandatory vaccination policy in Europe, Australia, and the US, focusing on the tactics governments use to motivate people to get vaccinated and how policies are designed. 

Mark Navin is a professor and chair of philosophy at Oakland University (Rochester, MI) and Clinical Ethicist at Corewell Health. His research is primarily in clinical ethics and ethics in public health.  

Image

Laura Carstensen is a professor of psychology at Stanford, where she's the founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. Her research focuses on ways in which motivational changes influence emotional experience and cognitive processing. 

-

Abstract: Along virtually any dimension, older people report better emotional well-being than younger generations. Considering the many losses older people experience, these findings are referred to as “the paradox of aging.” Socioemotional selectivity theory offers an account based on motivational shifts associated with perceived time horizons. This talk will overview the theory and evidence generated by tests of related hypotheses. 

Image

Talk Title: What Makes Care Integration So Hard and What To Do About It

Care integration remains a seemingly intractable challenge in health care. In this seminar, we’ll examine why, probing deeper for explanations than simply that care is badly fragmented (which it is), so hard to integrate. By considering findings across multiple studies, methods, and theories, we will derive insights and explore promising solutions.

Sara Singer is a Primary Care and Population Health professor at Stanford. Her research focuses on ensuring patient safety, integrating services and service providers, implementing technological innovations that enhance the value of health care, and determining how policymakers can make changes to ensure higher-quality, more affordable healthcare. 

Image

Laura Hatfield is an associate professor of health care policy (biostatistics) at Harvard. She is currently working to improve methods for control group selection in observational health services and outcomes research, and her research focuses on developing statistical methods that incorporate multiple information sources and loss functions to improve decision making. 

Image

David Rehkopf is a social epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, as well as the Department of Medicine in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health. His research focuses on understanding the health implications of the decisions that are made by the government, and his work focuses on using the implications of heath inequities to push for new strategies that promote health and well being.  

Anna H. Grummon is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Stanford School of Medicine. She is a behavioral scientist whose work seeks to identify and evaluate policies that encourage healthy eating and help us live long, healthy lives. In her work, Grummon uses randomized trials, quasi-experiments, and simulation modeling to examine how food policies like warning labels, beverage taxes, and food assistance programs affect what we eat and how healthy we are. She also studies strategies for encouraging people to choose foods that are more environmentally sustainable. Grummon holds a PhD and MSPH in Health Behavior from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a BA with Honors in Human Biology from Stanford. She completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard.

Talk Title: Improving Diet Through Food Policy

Abstract: Unhealthy diet is a leading cause of death in the US. Policy changes could improve diet and help prevent the 500,000 deaths attributable to unhealthy diet in the US each year. This talk will provide evidence about the potential for three policies to improve diet: warning labels for sugary drinks, mandatory calorie disclosures on restaurant menus, and minimum price laws for sugary drinks. Using data from randomized controlled trials, quasi-experiments, and simulation models, we examine how these policies are likely to affect consumer behavior, the food supply, and population health outcomes like obesity.