Sponsored by CISAC and Stanford Health Policy

About the Event: Dean Winslow describes the challenges facing the US during the COVID-19 pandemic emphasizing the importance of diagnostic testing in responding to the pandemic.  He discusses the critical role of the US government in procuring and stockpiling  tests and providing them to areas experiencing hot spots and to schools, communities of high social vulnerability and other congregate settings.  In the second part of the talk Winslow describes how the CDC supported the care and resettlement in the US of more than 124,000 Afghan refugees who fled the country in August 2021 following the fall of Afghanistan to Taliban forces.  He also describes the CDC response and support of undocumented immigrants arriving at the Southwest Border.

About the Speaker: Dean Winslow, MD is Professor of Medicine with appointments in the Divisions of Hospital Medicine and Infectious Diseases and is a Senior Fellow (courtesy) at CISAC/Freeman Spogli Institute. He has served on the Stanford faculty since 1998 and served from 2003-2008 as Co-Director of Stanford's Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program. He was in private practice in Wilmington, Delaware where he started the state’s first multidisciplinary clinic for HIV patients in 1985. In 1988 he joined the DuPont Company where he worked both as a bench scientist on HIV drug resistance then later designed the clinical trials supporting FDA approval of efavirenz. In 1999 he became Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Visible Genetics Inc. and led the FDA clearance of the TRUGENE HIV-1 drug resistance test. Dr. Winslow joined the staff at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in 2003, where he served as Chief of the Division of AIDS Medicine and later as Chair of the Department of Medicine. In 2015 he was appointed Academic Physician-In-Chief at Stanford/ValleyCare and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine. He was a Resident Fellow in Robinson House 2013-2017 and was visiting faculty at Oxford University in 2017. He was Lead Physician for the US Antarctic Program of the National Science Foundation 2019-2020 based at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. In 2021 he took leave from Stanford to lead the US COVID-19 Testing and Diagnostic Working Group. He served as CDC Senior Advisor to Operation ALLIES WELCOME and Chief Medical Officer for the Southwest Border Migrant Health Task Force before returning to Stanford in July 2022.

Dr. Winslow is a Master of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. He is the author of 87 papers. He is,a member of the IDSA Sepsis Task Force, and previously served as Chair of the Standards and Practice Guidelines Committee.

Colonel Winslow entered the Air National Guard in 1980 and was a Distinguished Graduate of the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine. He served as Commander of the 159th Medical Group 1992-1995 and was State Air Surgeon, Delaware Air National Guard 1995-2011. He served as ANG Assistant to the Commander, 59th Medical Wing, Joint Base San Antonio 2011-2014. Colonel Winslow deployed to the Middle East six times from 2003-2011 as a flight surgeon supporting combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. From Jan-April 2003 Colonel Winslow was the flight surgeon responsible for combat rescue operations from Tikrit to northern Iraq. In 2005 he coordinated military public health in Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In 2006 Colonel Winslow served as an ER physician at the United States Air Force 447th EMEDS (combat hospital) in Baghdad and in 2008 he served as hospital commander during the Iraq surge. He is a 2007 graduate of Air War College. He served as an infectious disease consultant to the USAF Surgeon General. In 2017 Dr. Winslow was nominated by the President to serve as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. He has 1150 military flying hours including 431 combat hours and 263 combat sorties. He has extensive operational experience in fighter, tactical airlift, and combat rescue missions. He holds an FAA Airline Transport Pilot license.

Since 2006 Dr. Winslow has arranged medical care in the U.S. for 28 Iraqi children who have complicated medical conditions for which care is not available in Iraq. In 2015, Dr. Winslow and his wife, Dr. Julie Parsonnet, created The Eagle Fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which provides aid to middle eastern and central American refugees. In 2018 he co-founded Scrubs Addressing the Firearms Epidemic (SAFE), which unites health care professionals to address gun violence in the US as a public health issue and to advocate for education, research, and evidence-backed policy to reduce gun violence.

 All CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone.

About the Event: Hecker will discuss his new book, Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program, in which he describes how North Korea—one of the most isolated in the world and in the policy cross hairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30 years—progressed from zero nuclear weapons in 2001 to a threatening arsenal of likely more than 50 such weapons today. He will also touch on how CISAC inspired his work on North Korea and what it was like in that environment to write the book. 

About the Speaker: Siegfried Hecker is professor of practice at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and professor of practice in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 34 years, including serving as its fifth director from 1986 through 1997. He was at Stanford University for 17 years in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and CISAC, including serving as co-director from 2007 to 2012. Hecker has worked on nuclear matters for most of his career, including having visited all countries with declared nuclear weapons programs, including North Korea. Hecker is the editor of Doomed to Cooperate (2016), two volumes documenting the history of Russian-U.S. laboratory-to-laboratory cooperation and Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program (2023) written with Elliot Serbin.

 All CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone.

Co-sponsored by Peking University Institute for Global Health and Development, and the Asia Health Policy Program

We study a commons problem in the context of the emergency ambulance service in Tokyo. Emergency ambulance service is free in Japan, and no one is excluded from using it. Because capacity is limited, individually rational ambulance use may delay the use by others, lowering the chance of survival. The Fire Department urges the proper use of ambulances to save lives that can be saved, but little is known about the extent of the negative consumption externality. In this paper, we first estimate how one's ambulance use affects others with respect to arrival delays and survival rates. Then, we analyze the impact of potential remedies that alter non-excludability and rivalry in ambulance use.

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Toshiaki Iizuka is a Professor at Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo. His research interests are in the field of health economics and industrial organization. He has written articles on incentive and information in the healthcare markets, which appeared in leading economics journals, including American Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Dr. Iizuka currently serves as Associate Editor of Journal of Health Economics and a member of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a council of the Japanese Health Ministry that determines provider payments and drug prices. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

This webinar will address the complexities and the unexpected outcomes of enforcing Sharia—Islamic law—through the machinery of inefficient statecraft in the Indonesian province of Aceh, which is located on the periphery of the world’s largest archipelagic nation. Of Indonesia’s 38 provinces, Aceh is the only one that has been granted the official right to implement Islamic law. Sharia promises to provide comprehensive guidance in all aspects of life.  Local authorities in Aceh have used the scope and force of the law to prohibit expression and criminalize conduct deemed to deviate from “Islamic ideals.” Movies, concerts, New Year’s Eve celebrations, punk and other “alternative” lifestyles were outlawed and seen as signs of calamity, moral disorder, and social disease. Yet the Sharia state’s efforts to limit the “acceptable” range of ways of being Muslim in Aceh are not impervious to opposition. Various forms of resistance to the everyday workings of state Sharia institutions have occurred. In the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, for example, several youth groups have creatively confronted government efforts to discipline them and control their space despite facing continuous harassment from Muslim hardliners and the Sharia Police. Beyond reviewing these conditions, Professor Idria’s analysis of the state enforcement of Islamic law on the periphery of a large country’s rapidly changing society will explore and explain how the implementation of Sharia in Aceh has both influenced and been shaped by broader contexts, political, economic, social, and cultural in character.

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Reza Idria is an Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology in the Ar-Raniry State Islamic University in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, where he chairs the Aceh Association of Oral Tradition.  He also serves in various scholarly and journalistic capacities and as a researcher in the International Center for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies. His writings have appeared in journals and books and he has given talks and presented papers in Asia, Europe, and the United States.  His post-graduate degrees are from Leiden University (Islamic Studies, MA 2010) and Harvard (Social Anthropology, MA 2016 and PhD 2020)

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) deserves credit for sustaining peaceful and consensual multilateral cooperation in a diverse and historically divided region.  Accordingly, in principle if not always in practice, outside powers have supported the regional centrality of ASEAN.  But what does that centrality mean and can it survive current challenges?  While still recovering from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Southeast Asia faces the destabilizing consequences of intense US-China tensions, Russia’s war in Ukraine, and global economic uncertainty.  Nor has ASEAN responded effectively to the ongoing domestic repression by the junta in Myanmar, one of the grouping’s own member countries.  Are there steps that ASEAN’s 2023 chair, Indonesia, could take to help meet these challenges?  Should minilateral options be considered?  In the context of addressing these and related topics, Sharon Seah will share pertinent findings from a just-published regional survey of Southeast Asian opinion influencers, The State of Southeast Asia 2023.

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Sharon Seah, in addition to her work for ISEAS-Yusof Ishak’s ASEAN Studies Centre, coordinates the Institute’s Climate Change in Southeast Asia Programme.  Her earlier service has included 15 years in Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its National Environment Agency.  Among her research interests are ASEAN, multilateralism, climate change, and the rule of law.  Her publications include, as co-editor, Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans (2019) and 50 Years of ASEAN and Singapore (2017). She has also served as the lead author of ISEAS-Yusof Ishak’s survey reports, The State of Southeast Asia and The Southeast Asia Climate Outlook.  She holds a Master in Public and International Law from the University of Melbourne (2018