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Welcome Doctoral Students

CHDS welcomes Kirsten Gallant and Isabella Impalli to the Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy, Decision Science track beginning this Fall, 2025. 

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Hypertension Control Trial

CHDS’ Shafika Abrahams-GesselThomas Gaziano, and colleagues published a formative evaluation of the IMPACT-BP hypertension control trial in South Africa.

REPOSITORY SPOTLIGHT
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Collection: State-Transition Models

This collection introduces state-transition models through curated teaching materials developed by CHDS faculty Myriam Hunink during a CHDS Media Hub immersion residency.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
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Breast Cancer Control

CHDS’ Jagpreet Chhatwal and colleagues forecasted global breast cancer trends to 2030, revealing measurable progress in most countries despite missing the UN Sustainable Development Goal for mortality reduction.

Recent News

Pandya Becomes SMDM President-Elect

October 21st, 2025

CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya has been elected by the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) membership to President-Elect for 2025-2026. Pandya will succeed Beate Jahn, Associate Professor

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Estimating US Childhood Insurance Dynamics

October 20th, 2025

PhD candidate Ye Shen published a modeling study that estimated cumulative insurance experiences during childhood in JAMA, with coauthors including CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya and Nicolas Menzies.

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Home-Based Care for Hypertension

October 16th, 2025

CHDS faculty Thomas Gaziano, Shafika Abrahams-Gessel, and colleagues published results of the IMPACT-BP clinical trial indicating that reliable home-based hypertension care in rural South Africa

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Assessing Models of Maternal Mortality

October 10th, 2025

CHDS faculty Zachary Ward and Sue J. Goldie and colleagues compared country-specific maternal mortality estimates for 2020 from three models in a recent eClinical Medicine article

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