Sherri Rose
Rose, an associate professor of medicine at Stanford Health Policy, is co-director of the Health Policy Data Science Lab. She was recognized for her contributions to statistical methods in health policy, including nonparametric machine learning techniques for causal inference, prediction and algorithmic fairness.
The annual Spiegelman Award was established in 1970 to honor Mortimer Spiegelman, an actuary, biostatistician and demographer. Rose will be presented with the award at the 2021 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in October.
“To see my work in interdisciplinary statistics recognized with such a singular honor and join luminaries in the field of biostatistics who have received the Spiegelman Award is humbling,” Rose said. “I hope by receiving this award it will help demonstrate that this type of research is impactful and valued in the profession.”
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Two-thirds of California prisoners who were offered a COVID-19 vaccine accepted at least one dose, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. We found that many incarcerated people in California prisons were willing to be vaccinated for COVID-19, said Elizabeth Chin, the lead author of the study and a PhD candidate in biomedical data science. This is an encouraging sign for other states at an early stage of rolling out vaccination programs in their prisons and jails.
The researchers also found that nearly half of those who initially turned down a COVID-19 vaccine accepted it when it was offered to them again. The finding is an important indication that vaccine hesitancy is not necessarily fixed.
Team reveals cost-effective and life-saving treatment for nation’s opioid disorder epidemic
Expanding access to a treatment that combines medication and counseling for opioid addiction may generate significant cost savings while also saving many lives, according to a study by researchers at Stanford and the Veterans Health Administration.
Opioid use disorder (OUD) has become a public health crisis and is a significant cause of morbidity, death, lost productivity and excess costs to the criminal justice system. At least 2 million people in the United States have a substance use disorder related to prescription opioid pain medication.
“Opioid overdoses in the United states likely reached a record high in 2020 because of COVID-19 increasing substance use, exacerbating stress and social isolation, and interfering with opioid treatment,” the researchers write in their original investigation in