Enhancing benefit-cost analysis to provide more information on how policies affect the advantaged and disadvantaged was a major theme of the 2024 Society for Benefit-Cost
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Kim Honored for Mentoring
CHDS’s Jane Kim is recipient of the Marianne Wessling-Resnick Memorial Mentoring Award in recognition of her mentoring of researchers and faculty at the Harvard Chan School.
Read more...Time Preferences and COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy
Vaccine hesitancy is affected by many factors, including individuals’ willingness to trade-off harms and improvements likely to occur now versus in the future. Arthur Attema explored these time preferences
Read more...Goldie Keynote at PVRI Congress
Sue J. Goldie, CHDS Faculty Director and the Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health, kicked off the global health track at the 16th Annual Congress of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute
Read more...Promoting Adolescent Investment in Diabetes Care
CHDS faculty Davene Wright has been awarded NIH funding to evaluate financial incentive programs designed to help adolescents with type-1 diabetes adhere to self-management of their glucose levels.
Read more...FAMNET Online Instrument Repositories
The Family Well-being Research Network (FAMNET) a collaborative project of CHDS faculty Eve Wittenberg, affiliated faculty Lisa Prosser at the University of Michigan, and Janel
Read more...Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Inequities
Dorit Stein, Global Health and Population (GHP) PhD candidate, and CHDS faculty Stéphane Verguet, simulated the potential health equity impact of improving hypertension management
Read more...Kids’ Ad Revenue for Social Media
CHDS faculty Zachary Ward co-authored a study revealing that six social media platforms collectively made nearly $11 billion in advertising revenue from US users under the age of 18 in 2022.
Read more...Advancing Research on Mortality and Morbidity Valuation
Valuing changes in health and longevity poses many difficult challenges. To encourage innovative new research, CHDS’s James Hammitt, Lisa Robinson, and Michael Eber participated in a workshop
Read more...CHDS Welcomes New Educational Innovation Scholar
Jacob Jameson has been selected to be a Center for Health Decision Science Educational Innovation Scholar for the Spring and Fall semesters (2024). Scholars are graduate students
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