Location
Palo Alto, CA
How did you hear about the NIC Hub?
Event
Organization
Stanford University
Title
Professor of Pediatrics, and of Education (by courtesy)
What are your domains of INTEREST?
Education, Public Health
Do you have any OTHER domains of interest?
Child health and development
What are your domains of EXPERTISE?
Education, Public Health
Do you have any OTHER domains of expertise?
U.S. Health Policy; Social Determinants of Health
Share with us a short bio of yourself.
Donald Barr received is M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco and his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University. He is Professor of Pediatrics and Education at Stanford, and is the founder of Stanford’s undergraduate curriculum in health policy in the Program in Human Biology. His research interests have included the study of cultural and linguistic barriers to health care access for low-income patients, racial and ethnic disparities in health care, and factors associated with higher rates of attrition from pre-medical studies among minority students at Stanford and other universities. The fourth edition of his book, "Introduction to U.S. Health Policy: The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America," was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in spring 2016. His third edition of his book, “Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health,” was published in 2019. In 2003 Dr. Barr was awarded the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contribution to Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. In 2006 he received the University’s Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize for his integration of teaching, scholarship, and volunteer service to society.
Would you like to join Health IT Group?
No
Would you like to join Project Unify Group?
No
Would you like to join the National Action Agenda to Advance Upstream Social Determinants and Race Equity Action Plan Group?
No
Would you like to join the Civil Justice Technology Project Group?
No
Would you like to join Social Determinants Group?
Yes
Would you like to join Opioid Epidemic Group?
No
