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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

Non-Communicable Disease Mortality Trends

September 24th, 2025

CHDS’ Zachary Ward discussed both the progress and challenges in meeting the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in reducing mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCD)

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Hunink Collaborates with Media Hub

September 19th, 2025

CHDS adjunct faculty Myriam Hunink publishes new teaching material culminating from an immersion residency with the CHDS Media Hub from Fall, 2024. These educational resources

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Analytics Science for Problem Solving

September 18th, 2025

In his book, Insight-Driven Problem Solving: Analytics Science to Improve the World, CHDS faculty Soroush Saghafian explores how analytics can drive meaningful improvements.

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Breast Cancer Progress on UN Development Goals

September 9th, 2025

CHDS’s Jagpreet Chhatwal and colleagues forecasted global breast cancer trends to 2030 and found that a more nuanced metric revealed signs of progress for most countries despite failing to achieve

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