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Health policy decisions often rely on decision-analytic computer models to compare costs and health outcomes when direct evidence is incomplete. Although we can almost never eliminate uncertainty

Doctoral students Janice Jhang, Jenna Rogers, Skye Yoden, and Hanxuan (Astrid) Yu are the 2026 recipients of the Raiffa Fund Award. The Fund supports the training of scholars pursuing doctoral studies

CHDS congratulates affiliated faculty Ole Norheim on being appointed to chair the new National Council for Priority Setting and Sustainability in Health and Social Care Services established under the Norwegian government’s

CHDS’s Jacob Jameson, fourth-year student in the Decision Science track of the Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy, was a finalist in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition

CHDS welcomes Tiange Chen this spring. Chen is a visiting PhD student from Peking University. While at CHDS she will be working on a project evaluating the cost-effectiveness of GLP-1 drugs

CHDS’ Jinyi Zhu and Ankur Pandya modeled targeted screening for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis (ACAS) to assess cost-effectiveness in preventing ischemic stroke. Fourteen percent

CHDS’s Jennifer Yeh and colleagues analyzed different screening modalities and strategies for colorectal cancer screening among survivors of childhood cancer previously treated with abdominopelvic radiation

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

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

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.