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CHDS’s Ole Norheim served as one of the editors to the fourth edition of the Disease Control Priorities (DCP-4) Country-Led Priorities Setting for Health volume, released last month. This is the first of four volumes

Conventional methods for valuing health and longevity have several well-known limitations. In a CHDS seminar, Maddalena Ferranna discussed social welfare function analysis

CHDS’ Nicolas Menzies recently participated in a panel discussion on Advances in Genomic Surveillance and Tuberculosis Diagnosis, hosted by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

CHDS Faculty Zachary Ward will present a new course this spring geared to doctoral and advanced masters students: Advanced Computational Methods for Disease Modeling. This is an advanced course

CHDS’ James Hammitt recently participated in the Symposium on Valuing Life and Health, sponsored by the Australian National University. The symposium brought together expert policy

CHDS’ Zachary Ward and colleagues assessed the causes of the UK’s poor rate of cancer survival compared with other high income countries, in a recent Lancet Oncology commentary.

CHDS faculty Thomas Gaziano presented Meeting the United Nations Goal of Reducing Premature Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: Global trends, policies and implementation at a seminar

Jacob Jameson, third year doctoral student in Health Policy, and CHDS faculty Soroush Saghafian published a study examining how physician variation in batch versus sequential test ordering in the emergency

CHDS faculty Nicolas Menzies and third-year doctoral student in the Department of Global Health and Population, Sarah Baum, co-authored a study published in PLOS Computational Biology developing a modeling

Radhika Tampi, fifth year doctoral student in Health Policy, and CHDS faculty Nicolas Menzies, published a recent study evaluating the cost-effectiveness of a modified reactive case detection strategy