CHDS’ Jacob Jameson became the first repeat awardee of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching from the Harvard Kennedy School in more than a decade. Selected through student nominations, the award recognizes outstanding teaching fellows, course coaches, and course assistants. Jameson served as a teaching fellow in three quantitative Kennedy School courses: Resources, Incentives, and Choices I: Markets and Market Failures, Game Theory and Strategic Decisions, and Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics, the last taught by CHDS faculty Soroush Saghafian.
Jameson will continue teaching this summer, serving as instructor for Introduction to Economics at the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute and leading the Society of Medical Decision Making short course, Build Your Own RA (Research Agent), which introduces researchers to agentic coding with agentic AI tools that can accelerate research programming.
Jameson is a doctoral student in the Harvard PhD in Health Policy program in the decision science track. He will be on the academic job market for the 2026–2027 cycle.
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