IHPS Faculty Book Releases
Two IHPS faculty, Dean Schillinger, MD and Jack Turban, MD have recently released books that highlight patient stories to bring science-based evidence to life.
Dr. Schillinger's book, Telltale Hearts: A Public Health Doctor, His Patients, and the Power of Story, is about his connections with his patients, revealing how these longitudinal relationships enable the discovery of their stories and showing how these stories then uncover the hidden exposures at the root of their illnesses. Schillinger writes that over time, such stories also weave a larger narrative about public health, arguing that listening to public hospital patients’ stories can change the approach we take to improving our entire nation’s public health. "When we listen to patients’ stories, and when we subject these stories to scientific inquiry, our understanding shifts: we discover that most illness occurs as a result of an excess of toxic exposures and a deficit of health-promoting resources," Schillinger explains. "That the state of the social and environmental conditions in which we live largely determines the state of our health. The deeper understanding that emerges after hearing story after story—what I call narrative epidemiology—not only can transform health care but also provides a blueprint for dismantling the structural drivers of disease in America.”
Dr. Turban also utilizes patient stories of transgender children, combined with the latest scientific research, and the intricacies of today’s political gender wars in his book Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity. Kids today are more gender fluent and expansive than ever before. In the United States, around two percent of teenagers (over 700,000) openly identify as transgender. As it becomes increasingly common for us to encounter and know transgender kids, as well as kids with more expansive notions of gender than past generations, it is vital that we have the tools we need in order to truly see and support them. In an interview with the Trevor Project, Turban shared, "People are understandably confused about what gender identity is, where it comes from, how gender-affirming care works, and what science and data are relevant to our political debates around trans kids (conversion therapy bans, bathroom bills, bans on gender-affirming medical care, sports bans, and more)." Turban's book gives the tools to help the kids in your life navigate the complexity of gender identity, while also coming to better understand what the nuances of gender mean to yourself and society at large.
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Lauren Hunt is a PhD-trained nurse practitioner and health services researcher with a research focus on understanding the geriatric palliative care needs and experiences of older adults with dementia across care settings. Her research questions are driven by her professional experiences as a clinician working with seriously-ill older adults in acute care, hospice, and outpatient clinics, where she has witnessed firsthand how gaps in current care models negatively impact patients and families.
Dr. Hunt's vision is to help older adults, particularly those with dementia, to live and die as comfortably and peacefully as possible. To that end, her research has focused on three main areas: 1) End-of-life health service use and quality of care in older adults with dementia; 2) Geriatric palliative care needs in vulnerable older adults across settings; 3) Potentially burdensome interventions and transitions in vulnerable older adults. She also has a methodological interest in using existing datasets to answers questions in these domains.
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Kelley Akiya, PhD, MPAff
Welcome to our new Philip R. Lee fellow, Kelley Akiya, PhD, MPAff. She will be working with Dr. Anusha Vable and her lab on identifying longitudinal trajectories of food insecurity in older adults as well as the health and health care implications of experiencing these different trajectories over time. Her research broadly focuses on understanding the effect of food insecurity on health, particularly among minoritized populations, and identifying health care and policy interventions that can reduce food insecurity and/or promote the health and well-being of those already experiencing or at risk of experiencing episodes of food insecurity. Prior to joining UCSF, Akiya completed her PhD in Public Health Policy and Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health where she received a dissertation grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to study food insecurity trajectories and transitions in U.S. adults ages 50 and older. Before starting her doctoral studies, she earned a Master of Public Affairs degree from the University of Texas Austin and worked as a program evaluator using quantitative and qualitative methods to study the implementation and effectiveness of various social welfare and health care interventions.
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eConsultation for Deprescribing Among Older Adults: Clinician Perspectives on Implementation Barriers and Facilitators, published by Lauren Hunt, PhD, RN, FNP, Matthew Miller, DPT, PhD, Leah Karliner, MD, MAS, Ralph Gonzales, MD, Krista Harrison PhD, Michael Steinman, MD and colleagues in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. | | |
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Morgan Philbin:
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From Bench to Bill: The Story of the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act
IHPS Health Policy Grand Rounds
Dorry Segev, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Population Health and Vice Chair of Surgery
Founding Director, NYU Center for Surgical and Transplant Applied Research
New York University
Sep 4, 2024, 12 - 1 pm PT
480 16th Street, Room 208 (Jade)
Zoom on request
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Philip R. Lee Fellowship Fund Endowed | |
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Since its founding 50 years ago, IHPS has been dedicated to training the next generation of leaders in interdisciplinary research to solve our most important health policy issues. In celebration of our 50th anniversary and to honor our founders, Phil Lee and Lew Butler, we established an endowment fund for the Philip R. Lee Fellowship. We are pleased to announce the fund has been endowed! We hope to continue to keep this fund and our fellowship program robust.
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Photo: Kim Felder Rhoads, MD, MS, MPH & Fellow for 2007-2008 with Philip R. Lee, MD, Founder of the Institute for Health Policy Studies | | | | |
