Health

The Stanford epidemiologist and King Center Faculty Affiliate reacts to recent news about the effects of plastic on human health.

Faculty Affiliate Gary Darmstadt talks about improvements in the infant mortality rate worldwide and what work remains to be done.

Ageing pipe systems and the absence of complementary sanitation investments compromise the health benefits of water disinfection research from King Center Faculty Affiliates show.

Modifying traditional infant massages led to more weight gain and fewer illnesses among newborns in a Stanford-led community study in India.

The Stanford Medicine professor on why it’s important to better understand the microbiome of people transitioning from traditional to Westernized lifestyles.

Karen Eggleston documents how the pandemic’s broad social and economic consequences negatively affected population health well beyond those directly suffering from COVID-19.

Stanford infectious disease expert Jason Andrews has spent years studying the spread of tuberculosis in crowded Brazilian prisons and surrounding communities.

Susan Athey and a team of economists have been pushing for an unprecedented expansion of vaccine capacity.

A new analysis by Faculty Affiliates Stephen Luby and Michael Biaocchi finds evidence of a link between air pollution and children’s respiratory health in low-income settings.

Masks, especially surgical ones, substantially reduce the risk of getting Covid-19 says Faculty Affiliate Stephen Luby.

Faculty Affiliate Stephen Luby talks about the deadly Nipah virus outbreak in India and why it should concern everyone.

Researchers found that surgical masks impede the spread of COVID-19 and that just a few, low-cost interventions increase mask-wearing compliance.

Faculty Affiliates Michele Barry, Stephen Luby, and Manu Prakash are working to protect health care workers in low-resourced Bangladesh.