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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

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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Gates Honors Norheim as Goalkeepers Nordic Champion

February 3rd, 2026

CHDS affiliated faculty Ole Norheim was honored as a Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Nordic Champion. The Gates Foundation Goalkeepers honors those who bring the world closer to achieving

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