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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

HPV Vaccine May Reduce Cervical Cancer Screenings

March 4th, 2026

CHDS’ Emily Burger, Jane Kim, Stephen Sy, and Allison Portnoy collaborated with researchers at the University of Oslo to assess the optimal starting age and frequency of cervical cancer screening among women who

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Estimating Incorrect Tuberculosis Diagnoses

February 25th, 2026

CHDS faculty Nicolas Menzies and colleagues analyzed the identification of Tuberculosis (TB) cases in 111 low and middle-income countries using a mathematical model of TB diagnosis, and estimated the number of individuals correctly

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Modeling Progression to Eating Disorders

February 19th, 2026

CHDS doctoral student Ye Shen and colleagues modeled the progression of disordered weight control behaviors (DWCB) to eating disorders from early childhood to young adulthood in Canada.

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Health Differences in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

February 10th, 2026

CHDS’s Ankur Pandya and colleagues propose a method to account for unknown equity weight values into distributional cost-effectiveness analysis (DCEA) in a recent Value in Health article.

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