Dr. Michele Barry hosts small gatherings in her home to give track residents the opportunity to present cutting-edge research on a topic of their choice. Residents identify a paper or series of papers to discuss and invite the principal investigator to co-present and lead the discussion with the group. These informal dinners are multi-disciplinary and have led to longstanding collaborations among residents and Stanford faculty. 

 

Recent Journal Club Presentations

May, 2025 – Malaria Vaccines

Facilitator: Nicholas Zehner, MD

Faculty Lead: Prasanna Jagannathan, MD

Articles: 

• Safety and efficacy of malaria vaccine candidate R21/Matrix-M in African children: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, phase 3 trial
• Selected abstracts and figures combined into one PDF from the following articles: 1) “Efficacy and safety of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine with or without a booster dose in infants and children in Africa: final results of a phase 3, individually randomised, controlled trial”, 2) “Seasonal Malaria Vaccination with or without Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention”, and 3)”Seven-Year Efficacy of RST,S/AS01 Malaria Vaccine Among Young African Children”

 

February, 2025 – Cost effectiveness of cardiac surgery in low- and middle-income settings

Facilitator: Marilyn Ndukwe, MD

Faculty Lead: Yihan Lin, MD

Articles: 

• The path to sustainable cardiac surgery in Rwanda: analysis of costs for consumables used during cardiac surgery for a non-governmental organization
• Cost-effectiveness analysis of pediatric cardiac surgery for common lesions in Rwanda

 

September, 2024 – Climate Change and Global Health 

Facilitator: Candice Hwang, MD

Faculty Lead: Desiree LaBeaud, MD

Articles: 

• The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms
• Climate change, thermal anomalies, and the recent progression of dengue in Brazil

Previous Presentations

• June, 2024 – Global Climate Change and NCDs
• January 2024 – Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Global Health
• February, 2023 – Pandemic Pathogen Policy
• October, 2022 – Management of Acute Stroke in LMICs
• July, 2022 – Nipah Virus 
• January, 2022 – Arboviruses
• October, 2020 – Using video teaching in the global health environment
• August, 2020 – Yellow Fever
• May, 2020 – Prevention of COVID-Transmission in high-risk, lower-resource settings
• February, 2020 – Attacks on healthcare facilities in conflict settings
• November, 2019 
• August, 2019 – Risk and Response to Biological Catastrophes
• April, 2019 – Venezuela’s Humanitarian/Public Health Crisis
• January, 2019 – TB
• September, 2018 – Mobile health and noncommunicable disease care in refugee populations in Lebanon
• June, 2018 – The Millenium Villages Project
• November, 2017 – mHealth CVD LMICs, Burden of RHD, Capacity for HF in SSA
• June, 2017 – Renal Diseases in the Developing World
• March, 2017 – Refugee Health
• October, 2016 – Viral Hepatitis
• February, 2016 – Zika Virus
• 2015 – Antimicrobial Resistance
• 2014 – Community Health

View past journal club articles