Sanjay Basu
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center
- Member, Bio-X
Key Documents
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Stanford Internal Medicine 900 Blake Wilbur Dr MC 5320 W2080 Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel Work (650) 723-6028 Fax (650) 725-7078
- Academic Offices
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Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- General Internal Medicine
Administrative Appointments
- Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine (2012 - present)
- Associate Faculty, Center for Health Policy, Primary Care & Outcomes Research (2012 - present)
- Affiliate, Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (2012 - present)
- Commission member, Population, Health and Social Development Council (2012 - present)
- Review Commission, WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2012 - present)
- Associate Editor, PLoS Medicine (2011 - present)
Honors and Awards
- Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2011-)
- Weingarten Award in Medicine, University of California San Francisco (2011)
- Dasey Award for Character and Integrity in Medicine, Yale University (2008)
- Alumni Award for Research, Yale University (2008)
- Rhodes Scholar, State of Massachusetts, Oxford University (2002)
- Institute Award for Research, MIT (2002)
Professional Education
| Internship: | UCSF-Internal Medicine CA (2010) |
| Residency: | UCSF-Internal Medicine CA (2012) |
| Board Certification: | American Board of Internal Medicine (2012) |
| MD: | Yale University (2009) |
| PhD: | Yale University (2009) |
| MSc: | Oxford University (2003) |
Community and International Work
- Public Health Foundation of India, Delhi
- Nyaya Health, Nepal
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Epidemiological modeling methods and systems science
Econometrics and population health statistics
Comparative cross-national datasets
Social policy influences on health outcomes
Publications
- Alcohol use during the great recession of 2008-2009. Alcohol Alcohol. 2013 May-Jun; (3): 343-8
- Access to cancer medicines in India. Lancet Oncol. 2013; (4): e136
- An alternative mechanism for international health aid: evaluating a Global Social Protection Fund. Health Policy Plan. 2013
- Financial crisis, austerity, and health in Europe. Lancet. 2013; (9874): 1323-31
- Is passive diagnosis enough? The impact of subclinical disease on diagnostic strategies for tuberculosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013; (5): 543-51
- Nutritional determinants of worldwide diabetes: an econometric study of food markets and diabetes prevalence in 173 countries. Public Health Nutr. 2013; (1): 179-86
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