In conventional benefit-cost analysis, values are based on individuals’ willingness to exchange their own income for the outcomes they experience. Susan Chilton presented an alternative
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CHDS at 2025 SMDM Meeting
Members of the CHDS community contributed to the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM), held in Ann Arbor, Michigan in June, 2025.
Read more...Setting Optimal Test Thresholds
An important challenge for the use of screening and diagnostic tests is determining the threshold for defining whether the result is positive or negative, when the results are measured on a continuous
Read more...Portnoy Receives Data-Science Fellowship
CHDS affiliate Allison Portnoy, Boston University assistant professor of global health, has been named a 2025 Junior Faculty Fellow at the Boston University Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing
Read more...Accelerated Aging in Childhood Cancer Survivors
CHDS faculty Jennifer Yeh and Zachary Ward and colleagues published a study in JAMA Oncology revealing that adult survivors of childhood cancer experience earlier onset and a higher lifetime risk of select chronic
Read more...Shen Receives Dissertation Support Award
Doctoral student Ye Shen was awarded the inaugural Social Equity and Health Equity (SEHE) grant in Spring, 2025. Shen was selected as one of 28 Harvard University PhD students across all
Read more...Multimedia Storytelling Workshop
Teaching fellows from the course Decision Science for Public Health, RDS 202, offered in Spring, 2025, joined CHDS faculty director Sue J. Goldie and senior research scientist Eve Wittenberg
Read more...Verguet Honored for Mentoring
CHDS faculty Stéphane Verguet received the Harvard Chan School Mentoring Award in recognition of his enrichment of the academic, professional, or personal development of students
Read more...Geng Receives AcademyHealth Award
Recent graduate, Fangli Geng, of the Decision Science track of the Health Policy PhD program, received the 2025 AcademyHealth Outstanding Dissertation Award. The award recognizes Geng’s
Read more...ISPOR Working Group on Generative AI
CHDS faculty Jagpreet Chhatwal is a member of a newly formed ISPOR Working Group on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), which published its first report on opportunities, challenges, and policy
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