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Marissa Reitsma

  • PhD Student, Health Policy

Biography

Marissa Reitsma is a Health Policy PhD student in the Decision Sciences track and Knight-Hennessy Scholar. Prior to joining Stanford in 2019, she worked for five years as a research fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). At IHME, she worked on the Global Burden of Disease study, modeling the health effects of obesity, smoking, alcohol use, and drug use. Additional previous research experience includes laboratory-based research on HIV drug resistance and primary data collection work to improve tobacco surveillance systems in resource-constrained settings. Broadly, she is interested in developing applied quantitative models to reduce health inequalities, both within countries and between countries. She holds a bachelor's degree in Biology from Brown University.

In The News

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Stanford Researchers Document Progress, Missed Opportunities in Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake

Unequal COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States have compounded existing disparities in cases, hospitalizations and deaths among Black and Hispanic populations. SHP researchers quantify how differential vaccine uptake by race and ethnicity within each US state produced substantial vaccination coverage disparities during the initial scale-up among older adults.
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SHP-Kaiser Collaboration on Estimates and Projections of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage

Stanford Health Policy and the Kaiser Family Foundation are collaborating to examine the disparities in meeting vaccination benchmarks by using state-reported vaccination data by race/ethnicity and projecting vaccine coverage going forward.
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California's Latinos Hit Hard At All Levels by Pandemic

Latinos, the state’s largest ethnic group, have faced greater exposure to COVID-19 and has contracted and died from the coronavirus at higher rates than non-Hispanic whites, according to a study led by Stanford Health Policy.
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