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OECD “Valuing Life” Report

CHDS’ Lisa Robinson served on the scientific advisory committee for OECD’s report on mortality risk valuation that reviewed value per statistical life (VSL) studies globally.

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Maternal Mortality Models

CHDS’ Zachary Ward and Sue J. Goldie, with colleagues, compared country-specific maternal mortality estimates from three models to inform policies to reduce mortality.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
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US Childhood Insurance Dynamics

PhD candidate Ye Shen modeled cumulative insurance experiences during childhood in a JAMA publication with coauthors including CHDS’ Ankur Pandya and Nicolas Menzies.

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
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Pandya SMDM President-Elect

CHDS’ Ankur Pandya was elected by the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) membership to serve as President-Elect for 2025-2026. 

Recent News

Liquid Biopsy May Reduce Late-Stage Cancer Diagnosis

December 11th, 2025

CHDS’s Jagpreet Chhatwal and colleagues evaluated the effect of multicancer early detection (MCED) tests – commonly known as liquid biopsy — for fourteen solid tumor cancer types and found that adoption

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Vaccines Prevent Medical Poverty

December 4th, 2025

Boshen Jiao, former postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Global Health and Population, CHDS faculty Stéphane Verguet, and colleagues recently published a study in

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GenAI for HEOR

December 1st, 2025

CHDS faculty Jagpreet Chhatwal and colleagues, on behalf of the ISPOR Working Group on Generative AI, recently published an article in Value in Health that provides foundational

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Pediatric Tuberculosis Amidst US Funding Cuts

November 11th, 2025

CHDS faculty Nicolas Menzies and colleagues projected how funding cuts from US bilateral health aid and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria could lead to increases

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