Alyce Adams is a Professor of Health Policy and of Epidemiology and Population Health in the Stanford School of Medicine; Associate Chair, Partnership and Community Engagement for the Department of Health Policy; and Associate Director for Health Equity and Community Engagement in the Stanford Cancer Institute. Focusing on racial and socioeconomic disparities in chronic disease treatment outcomes, Dr. Adams' interdisciplinary research seeks to evaluate the impact of changes in drug coverage policy on access to essential medications, understand the drivers of disparities in treatment adherence among insured populations, and test strategies for maximizing the benefits of treatment outcomes while minimizing harms through informed decision-making. Prior to joining Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Adams was Associate Director for Health Care Delivery and Policy and a Research Scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, as well as a Professor at the Bernard J. Tyson Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. From 2000 to 2008, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine (formerly Ambulatory Care and Prevention) at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health care. She received her PhD in Health Policy and an MPP in Social Policy from Harvard University. She is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for AcademyHealth and a former recipient of the John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentoring Award from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and an invited lecturer on racial disparities in health care in the 2014/2015 National Institute of Mental Health Director’s Innovation Speaker Series.

Yifan Zhang is a Social Science Research Scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is interested in applying statistical analysis methods in health policy research in scenarios where health risk heterogeneity exists. At Stanford Health Policy, she has participated in projects examining drivers’ accident risks, physicians’ malpractice, gun violence, and secondary insurance markets. Dr. Zhang has engaged from the beginning of a five-year collaboration among researchers in multiple institutions and government agencies to construct an extensive database of firearm purchasers that permits the analysis of risk factors of firearm injuries.

Before joining Stanford, Dr. Zhang was a Research Associate at Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She received a BSc in Actuarial Science from The University of Hong Kong, an MSc and a PhD from Harvard University.