Join the Alliance, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, and Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health for another session in the Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch series, Design for Health Equity & Lessons: Learn more about Equalize Health, the design and impact of med devices to address equity gaps, and important lessons along the way. This session features Krista Donaldson, PhD, who is an engineer, designer, and entrepreneur recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. She is the Director of Innovation to Impact at Stanford’s Byers Center for Biodesign and helps establish the East Africa Biodesign Program. Krista founded Equalize Health, which developed medical devices treating over 2 million patients in 80 countries. In her talk she’ll cover the good, the challenges, and the big lessons from her work and Equalize Health.
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Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch | Geography and Inequity: Key Structural Determinants of Health in the US
Alliance Events, Hybrid, Member Events
Join the Alliance, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, and Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health for Geography and Inequity: Key Structural Determinants of Health in the US, a Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch Session. This session features speaker Sarah Hooper, JD, Professor of Practice at UC Law San Francisco and Associate Dean of the UCSF-UC Law SF Master of Science in Health Policy & Law. She focuses on health justice, aging, and complex care. She has been involved in clinical interventions like the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors Clinic and research projects such as the Dementia Care Ecosystem clinical trial. Sarah has co-developed tools for decision-making among older adults with dementia, including PREPARE and Plan for Clarity.
Design for Health Equity: Taking a literacy lens to advance maternal and child health equity
Join Alliance member Stanford Biodesign for their Stanford Biodesign Health Equity brown bag, Design for Health Equity: Taking a literacy lens to advance maternal and child health equity. This brown bag session features Dr. Lee Sanders, a general pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics. He is a national expert in the science of health literacy, which applies a literacy lens to advancing maternal and child health equity.
Forecasting climate’s impact on a debilitating disease
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Tech Maze: Covid-19 Vaccine Development as a Model for the Future of Advanced AI Intelligence in Health Care
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NEOsphere Conference 2024
Join Alliance member Stanford’s California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative (CPQCC) for the NEOsphere Conference 2024: Shaping the Future of Care in the Newborn Intensive Unit (NICU) and Beyond. NEOsphere conference aspires to provoke a reexamination of care practices, serve an incubator for ideas, and a platform for innovation. They aim to harness the wisdom of NICU families to develop collaboration between technologists, practitioners, and families to support the development and testing of novel approaches that enhance NICU care and early childhood health outcomes and equity.
Murder, birth and test scores: What scientists are learning about extreme heat
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Stanford’s 2024 Global Health Seed Grant Awards take on timely challenges around the globe
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3rd Annual Bay Area Tuberculosis Science (BATS) Symposium
Join the UC Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (UC TRAC) for the 3rd Annual Bay Area Tuberculosis Science (BATS) Symposium, co-sponsored by Alliance members UCSF Center for Tuberculosis and UC Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases. BATS brings together TB investigators at UCSF, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Stanford University and the SF Department of Public Health to highlight established and early-stage investigators in the UC TRAC community with the intention to build community and foster collaboration.
Improving mental health and combating HIV in an often-neglected population: Adolescent girls
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Building Bridges, Uniting for Impact: 2024 Annual Meeting
“Global health really is a team effort,” said Colin Boyle, Alliance board chair and Lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, opening the Bay Area Global Health Alliance’s 4th Annual Meeting, where multisectoral members convened on May 21 to discuss bridging gaps and enhancing collaborative efforts across various sectors to tackle pressing health issues worldwide.
Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign Policy Fellows’ Research Presentations
Join Alliance member Stanford Institute for Biodesign for their Policy Fellows’ Research Presentations. Their inaugural policy fellows will be showcasing their work on Healthcare AI Policy for Trustworthy Innovation, Interoperability and Maternal Health, Implications of Current Policies in the Biotechnology Industry and Patient Care, and Medicare Adoption Rate of Novel Medical Devices.
Addressing the migrant maternal mortality crisis
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Global Health Career Panel
The path to a career in global health is rarely straightforward. This theme emerged during a panel discussion hosted by Stanford University and the Bay Area Global Health Alliance on May 15. The event featured professionals from the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, Roche Diagnostics, PATH, Google, and Stanford, who shared their unique career journeys. Moderator Sara Anderson, and panelists Joanna Sickler, Neha Agarwal, Claudia Amar, and Cyan Brown came from diverse backgrounds in politics and advocacy, business, engineering, nursing, and medicine.
Become a 2025-26 Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellow!
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Navigating Imperfect Data: Challenges and Solutions for AI-Powered Healthcare in Low-Resource Settings
On Thursday, May 9 the Bay Area Global Health Alliance hosted their second convening of the 2024 Discussion Series on AI and Global Health. The convening offered insights from thought leaders, innovators, and changemakers who are navigating the potential of AI to power a dynamic shift to prioritize service delivery over data collection.
RAISE Health Symposium 2024
Join Alliance member Stanford for RAISE Health Symposium 2024 which will explore AI’s potential to transform medicine and spotlight critical challenges to ensuring that AI is developed safely, responsibly, and for the benefit of society. This symposium will host an essential discussion about the role of artificial intelligence in our health and will provide opportunities to hear from world-class experts and gain insights about AI’s next chapter and strategies for navigating the responsible advancement of AI in biomedicine.
Time100 Health honors Jenna Forsyth for tackling lead contamination
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5 Questions with Amanda Marr Chung
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Global Health Career Panel
Registration has closed. Read key takeaways. Join the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and Stanford University's Center for Innovation in Global Health on Wednesday, May 15 from 9-10am PT for this co-hosted global health career panel. Attendees will hear global health...