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Colorectal Cancer Prevention

CHDS’ Jennifer Yeh and colleagues found that childhood cancer survivors who received abdominopelvic radiation treatment could significantly reduce colorectal cancer occurrence and mortality by initiating screening as early as age 25.

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Accuracy of Tuberculosis Diagnoses

CHDS’ Nicolas Menzies and colleagues analyzed tuberculosis cases in low and middle-income countries in 2023 and found that there were significant numbers of both false-negative and false-positive tuberculosis diagnoses.

PUBLICATION SPOTLIGHT
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Cervical Cancer Screening

CHDS’ Emily BurgerJane KimStephen SyAllison Portnoy and Norwegian colleagues found that women who receive the HPV vaccine could safely be screened less frequently than current recommendations.

REGULATORY SPOTLIGHT
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Impacts of Air Pollution Regulation

CHDS’ Lisa Robinson explains the adverse impacts of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s recent decision to no longer quantify health benefits of reduced air pollution. See the related Harvard Chan School article.

Recent News

Prenatal Syphilis Screening Mandates

April 22nd, 2026

Sarah Baum, doctoral student in Global Health and Population, and CHDS faculty Nicolas Menzies recently published a study in JAMA Health Forum that analyzed more than 16 million

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Uncertainty in Model-Based Decision Making

April 14th, 2026

Health policy decisions often rely on decision-analytic computer models to compare costs and health outcomes when direct evidence is incomplete. Although we can almost never eliminate uncertainty

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2026 Raiffa Fund Awardees

April 9th, 2026

Doctoral students Janice Jhang, Jenna Rogers, Skye Yoden, and Hanxuan (Astrid) Yu are the 2026 recipients of the Raiffa Fund Award. The Fund supports the training of scholars pursuing doctoral studies

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Norheim to Lead New Norwegian Council

April 8th, 2026

CHDS congratulates affiliated faculty Ole Norheim on being appointed to chair the new National Council for Priority Setting and Sustainability in Health and Social Care Services established under the Norwegian government’s

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