Healthcare Innovation, Policy & Equity Lab
Conducting rigorous, community-engaged policy research to promote health equity.
The mission of the Stanford Health Innovation, Policy and Equity (HIPE) Lab is to forge meaningful health equity advances by conducting research to advance our understanding of persistent disparities in chronic disease treatment outcomes and inform health system and policy innovations that promote health equity.
Alyce Adams, MD, PhD
Dr. Adams is the Stanford Medicine Innovation Professor and a Professor in the Departments of Health Policy, Epidemiology and Population Health, and, by courtesy, Pediatrics - Endocrinology at the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Adams also serves as Associate Chair for Health Equity and Community Engagement for the Department of Health Policy, Associate Director for Cancer Health Equity and Community Engagement for the Stanford Cancer Institute (Office of Cancer Health Equity) and Co-Director of the Diabetes Research for Equity through Advanced Multilevel Science Center for Diabetes Translational Research (DREAMS-CDTR). A health services and policy researcher with more than 20 years of experience, Dr. Adams, is passionate about the ability of observational research to inform health system and policy level solutions to promote equitable treatment outcomes among underserved and minoritized older adults with multiple chronic conditions. She received her PhD in Health Policy from Harvard University.
Tainayah Thomas, PhD, MPH
Dr. Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health. She also serves as a Core Faculty member of the Diabetes Research for Equity through Advanced Multilevel Science Center for Diabetes Translational Research (DREAMS-CDTR). Her research focuses on primary care improvement and diabetes prevention and management among racially and ethnically diverse populations. Dr. Thomas's research seeks to leverage delivery science research methodology to promote the integration of evidence-based research into clinical practice. Dr. Thomas is dedicated to transforming research into action by engaging community, health system, and policy stakeholders in adapting, implementing, and sustaining interventions that address health disparities and promote health equity.
A conversation with health equity expert Alyce Adams
Priya Singh, Stanford Medicine’s chief strategy officer and senior associate dean and a member of the Commission on Justice and Equity, recently talked with Adams about her health disparity discoveries and her vision for forging meaningful health equity advances at Stanford Medicine and beyond. Photograph by Leslie Williamson.
Forging meaningful health equity advances
Those with the greatest need are often the last to benefit from health care innovations. Therefore, in addition to improving access to high quality care, we seek to identify strategies within and outside of health systems that can accelerate equity forward innovations in chronic disease prevention and control. Towards these efforts we are building partnerships between researchers, patients, practitioners, communities and policymakers to develop interventions that have equity at the forefront of innovation.
Funding Opportunities
Diabetes Equity Research
In the spotlight
Contact us
email: HIPE-research@stanford.edu
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