This event is part of the series Exploring APEC’s Role in Facilitating Regional Cooperation.

Digital health technologies hold great promise to strengthen health systems in the Asia-Pacific region and provide affordable access for remote and vulnerable populations. But what is the evidence about how digital health initiatives work in practice in low resource settings? What incentive structures and provider skillsets are needed to improve health equity, health service quality, and health system resilience at an affordable cost? What is the role of APEC in promoting these innovations while also addressing concerns about data privacy and security? This colloquium explores these questions with case studies from South and Southeast Asia. Our three expert speakers discuss how APEC members are actively experimenting with “innovative digital health solutions to increase access to, and delivery of, health services,” as highlighted in the Chair's Statement of the 13th APEC High-Level Meeting on Health and the Economy. 

Panelists:

CK Cheruvettolil, Senior Strategy Officer, Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

CK Cheruvettolil is a Senior Strategy Officer on the Gates Foundation Artificial Intelligence Taskforce. He leads the deployment of AI solutions in Asia and works closely with governments, public health agencies and health service providers to identify and fund digital technologies that could have impact. CK has been at the Gates Foundation for 12 years in a variety of roles including financing and strategy for global vaccine development and disease surveillance. 
Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, CK spent 8-years as a consultant to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this capacity, he played a crucial role in designing the technical framework for the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network.

Kiran Gopal Vaska, Director of the National Health Authority of India

Mr. Kiran Gopal Vaska is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) currently working at the National Health Authority, New Delhi. In his earlier roles, he worked at various levels of government in the areas of power, rural development, health and family welfare, education, and industrial development, among others. As Managing Director of MP Eastern Zone Power Distribution Company, he led the digitization of the company including GIS mapping of the entire power network, introduction of smart meter technologies, and more. He led the development of an online single window system and was instrumental in Madhya Pradesh state ranking among the top 5 states in Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) in India for 2016. Before joining government service, he worked in the finance industry performing risk analytics for hedge funds and banks.

Moderator:

​​Dr. Siyan Yi, Assistant Professor and Director of Integrated Research Program at National University of Singapore; 2011-12 Developing Asia Health Policy Fellow, Shorenstein APARC

Dr. Yi is a medical doctor and an infectious disease epidemiologist by training. He received his PhD from the School of International Health of the University of Tokyo in Japan in 2010. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Health Policy Program, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University from 2011-2012. He is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Integrated Research Program at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore. He also serves as Director of KHANA Center for Population Health Research in Cambodia and Adjunct Associate Professor at Touro University California, the United States. His implementation research program focuses on developing and evaluating community-based innovative interventions for improving access to prevention, treatment, and care services for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, sexual and reproductive health, and maternal and child health among vulnerable and marginalized populations in Southeast Asia.

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

Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence across the globe. This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized controlled trial that offers females a goal setting activity to improve their sexual and reproductive health outcomes and offers their male partners a soccer intervention, which educates and inspires young men to make better sexual and reproductive health choices. Both interventions reduce female reports of intimate partner violence. Impacts are larger among females who were already sexually active at baseline. We develop a model to understand the mechanisms at play. The soccer intervention improves male attitudes around violence and risky sexual behaviors. Females in the goal setting arm take more control of their sexual and reproductive health by exiting violent relationships. Both of these mechanisms drive reductions in IPV.

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Manisha Shah is the Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Endowed Chair in Social Justice and Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Founding Director of the Global Lab for Research in Action. She is an affiliate of NBER, CEGA, JPAL, BREAD, and IZA. Her research focuses on development economics, particularly applied microeconomics, health, and development. She has written several papers on the economics of sex markets in order to learn how more effective policies and programs can be deployed to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. She also works in the area of child health and education. . Shah has been the PI on various impact evaluations and randomized controlled trials and is currently leading projects in Tanzania, Indonesia, and India. She has also worked extensively in Ecuador and Mexico. Her research has been supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the World Bank, and the National Science Foundation among others. She is an editor at Journal of Health Economics and an Associate Editor at The Review of Economics and Statistics. Shah received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.

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The Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium at Stanford University will be held on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. The Symposium is a day-long event that showcases innovative global health policy research by academics from around the world. After the symposium, our keynote speaker will be Sheila Tlou, chancellor of Botswana Open University and the former minister of health for Botswana at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. She currently is co-chair of the Global HIV Prevention Coalition and co-chair of the Nursing Now Global Campaign. Tlou, who has a PhD in community nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago, helped launch the WHO’s State of the World Nursing Report in Geneva.

Her keynote address will focus on her personal experiences in translating and applying evidence-based decision-making to global health policy in the areas of gender, health, and HIV/AIDS. Following her talk, she will be in conversation with Michele Barry, director of the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health.

Agenda 

Research Presentations (8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Reuben W. Hills Conference Room)

8:30 AM -9:10 AM: Jessica Cohen / Prompt(ed) Care: Experimental Evidence on a Maternal Digital Health Tool in Kenya

9:10 AM - 9:50 AM: Damian Clarke / Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health? Lessons from Constitutional Reform in Brazil

10:00 AM -10:40 AM: Eyal Frank / The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India

10:40 AM - 11:20 AM: Marie Christelle Mabeu / Colonial Origins of Fertility Behaviors: Evidence on the Role of Forced Labor Migration in Burkina Faso

11:30 AM - 12:10 PM: Timothy Powell-Jackson / Management practices and quality of care: evidence from the private health care sector in Tanzania

12:10 PM-1:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 PM - 1:40 PM: Maria Rosales-Rueda / Social interventions, health and wellbeing: The long-term and intergenerational effects of a school construction program

1:40 PM - 2:20 PM:Antonella Bancalari / Public Service Delivery and Free Riding: Experimental Evidence from India

Keynote Address and Reception (3-5 p.m., Paul Brest Hall - East)

3:00 PM-4:15 PM: Keynote by Sheila Tlou followed by conversation with Michele Barry

4:15 PM-5:00 PM: Reception

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Stanford Medicine's new Department of Health Policy held its inaugural departmental symposium on October 6, convening thought leaders and experts in medicine, law, economics and data science. Speakers discussed innovative policy work and scalable solutions for improving health equity. Panelists addressed how to reduce persistent health disparities from three angles: social determinants of health, technology and innovation, and access and affordability.

Discover the powerful role health policy can serve in ensuring the health of all people, not just a privileged few.

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Keynote Speaker: Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD

Talk Title: Building Equity in the Research Enterprise

Editor in Chief, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and JAMA Network Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Opening Remarks by Stanford Medicine Dean Lloyd Minor

Terrance Mayes, Associate Dean for Equity and Strategic Initiatives

Panel 1 — Social Policy: Strategies for Addressing Structural Determinants of Health

Moderator

Alyce Adams, Stanford Medicine Innovation Professor, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Professor of Health Policy

Panelists

Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Professor of Health Policy

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Gilbert Gonzales, Assistant Professor at the Center for Medicine, Health & Society at Vanderbilt University

Adrienne Sabety, Assistant Professor of Health Policy

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​Panel 2 — Technology: Optimizing Innovation for Health Impact and Equity

Moderator: Josh Salomon, Professor of Health Policy, Director of the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab

Panelists

Joshua Makower, Boston Scientific Applied Biomedical Engineering Professor, Director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign

Grant Miller, Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor, Professor of Health Policy

Sherri Rose, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Co-Director of the Health Policy Data Science Lab

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Panel 3 — Access & Affordability: How to Finance and Deliver Health Care Innovations Equitably

Moderator: Michelle Mello, Professor of Health Policy, Professor of Law​

Panelists

Nicole Dickelson Cooper, Senior Vice President at UnitedHealth Group 

Stacie Dusetzina, Associate Professor of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Maria Polyakova, Assistant Professor of Health Policy

Vindell Washington, Chief Clinical Officer of Verily Health Platforms and CEO of Onduo

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Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Credit Designation 
American Medical Association (AMA) 
Stanford Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

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