Students

2020

• Munshi VNJ, Saghafian S, Cook CB, Werner KT, Chakkera HA. Comparison of Post-Transplantation Diabetes Mellitus Incidence and Risk Factors between Kidney and Liver Transplantation Patients. PLoS One. 2020 Jan 10;15(1):e0226873. PMID: 31923179.
• Mason SE, Zhu J, Rahaghi FN, Washko GR, Pandya A. Cost-Effectiveness Microsimulation of Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis in Submassive Pulmonary Embolism Using a Right Ventricular Function Model. J Thromb Thrombolysis. 2020 Feb 11. doi: 10.1007/s11239-020-02058-y. PMID: 32048167.
• Spahillari A, Zhu J, Ferket BS, Hunink MGM, Carr JJ, Terry JG, Nelson C, Mwasongwe S, Mentz RJ, O’Brien EC, Correa A, Shah RV, Murthy VL, Pandya A. Cost-Effectiveness of Contemporary Statin Use Guidelines With or Without Coronary Artery Calcium Assessment in African American Individuals. JAMA Cardiol. 2020 May 13. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2020.1240.
• Woo S, Atun R, Ward ZJ, Scott AM, Hricak H, Vargas HA. Diagnostic Performance of Conventional and Advanced Imaging Modalities for Assessing Newly Diagnosed Cervical Cancer: Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis. Eur Radiol. 2020 May 15. doi: 10.1007/s00330-020-06909-3. PMID: 32415584.
• Munshi VN, Saghafian S, Cook CB, Eric Steidley D, Hardaway B, Chakkera HA. Incidence, Risk Factors, and Trends for Postheart Transplantation Diabetes Mellitus. Am J Cardiol. 2020 Feb 1; 125(3):436-440. PMID: 31812226.
• Yeh JM, Ward ZJ, Chaudhry A, Liu Q, Yasui Y, Armstrong GT, Gibson TM, Howell R, Hudson MM, Krull KR, Leisenring WM, Oeffinger KC, Diller. Life Expectancy of Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer Over 3 Decades. JAMA Oncol. 2020 Jan 2. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.5582. PMID: 31895405.
• Atun R, Bhakta N, Denburg A, Frazier AL, Friedrich P, Gupta S, Lam CG, Ward ZJ, Yeh JM, Allemani C, Coleman MP, Di Carlo V, Loucaides E, Fitchett E, Girardi F, Horton SE, Bray F, Steliarova-Foucher E, Sullivan R, Aitken JF, Banavali S, Binagwaho A, Alcasabas P, Antillon F, Arora RS, Barr RD, Bouffet E, Challinor J, Fuentes-Alabi S, Gross T, Hagander L, Hoffman RI, Herrera C, Kutluk T, Marcus KJ, Moreira C, Pritchard-Jones K, Ramirez O, Renner L, Robison LL, Shalkow J, Sung L, Yeoh A, Rodriguez-Galindo C. Sustainable Care for Children with Cancer: A Lancet Oncology Commission. Lancet Oncol. 2020 Apr;21(4):e185-e224. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30022-X. Review. PMID: 32240612.
• 2019
• Ward ZJ. 2-6 Years-of-Age is the Period Associated with Greatest BMI Acceleration among Obese Adolescents. J Pediatr. 2019 Mar;206:298-301. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.12.073. No abstract available. PMID: 30798832.
• Song LD, Newhouse JP, Garcia-Albeniz X, Hsu J. Changes in Screening Colonoscopy Following Medicare Reimbursement and Cost-Sharing Changes. Health Services Research 2019; 54 (4): 839-850.
• Long MW, Polacsek M, Bruno P, Giles CM, Ward ZJ, Cradock AL, Gortmaker SL. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Stakeholder Evaluation of 2 Obesity Prevention Policies in Maine, US. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 2019.
• Andersen LW, Holmberg MJ, Granfeldt A, James LP, Caulley L. Cost-Effectiveness of Public Automated External Defibrillators. Resuscitation 2019; 138: 250-258.
• Basto-Abreu A, Barrientos-Gutiérrez T, Vidaña-Pérez D, Colchero MA, Hernández-F M, Hernández-Ávila M, Ward ZJ, Long MW, Gortmaker SL. Cost-Effectiveness Of The Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Excise Tax In Mexico. Health Aff (Millwood). 2019 Nov;38(11):1824-1831. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05469. PMID: 31682510.
• Kenney EL, Cradock AL, Long MW, Barrett JL, Giles CM, Ward ZJ, Gortmaker SL. Cost-Effectiveness of Water Promotion Strategies in Schools for Preventing Childhood Obesity and Increasing Water Intake. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2019 Dec;27(12):2037-2045. doi: 10.1002/oby.22615. PMID: 31746555.
• Geng F, Stevenson DG, Grabowski DC. Daily Nursing Home Staffing Levels Highly Variable, Often Below CMS Expectations. Health Aff (Millwood). 2019 Jul;38(7):1095-1100. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05322. PMID: 31260368. Erratum in Health Aff (Millwood) 2019 Sep; 38(9):1598.
• Ward ZJ, Yeh JM, Bhakta N, Frazier AL, Atun R. Estimating the Total Incidence of Global Childhood Cancer: A Simulation-Based Analysis. Lancet Oncol. 2019 Feb 26. pii: S1470-2045(18)30909-4. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30909-4. PMID: 30824204.
• Ward ZJ, Rodriguez P, Wright DR, Austin SB, Long MW. Estimation of Eating Disorders Prevalence by Age and Associations with Mortality in a Simulated Nationally Representative US Cohort. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Oct 2;2(10):e1912925. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.12925. PMID: 31596495.
• Ward ZJ, Yeh JM, Bhakta N, Frazier AL, Girardi F, Atun R. Global Childhood Cancer Survival Estimates and Priority-Setting: A Simulation-Based Analysis. Lancet Oncol. 2019 May 22. pii: S1470-2045(19)30273-6. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(19)30273-6. PMID: 31129029.
• Yeh JM, Ward ZJ, Chaudhry A, Liu Q, Yasui Y, Armstrong GT, Gibson TM, Howell R, Hudson MM, Krull KR, Leisenring WM, Oeffinger KC, Diller L. Life Expectancy of Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer Over 3 Decades. JAMA Oncol. 2020 Jan 2. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.5582. PMID: 31895405.
• Ward ZJ, Bleich SN, Cradock AL, Barrett JL, Giles CM, Flax C, Long MW, Gortmaker SL. Projected U.S. State-Level Prevalence of Adult Obesity and Severe Obesity. N Engl J Med. 2019 Dec 19;381(25):2440-2450. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1909301. PMID: 31851800.
• Loomer L, Gandhi A, Geng F, Grabowski DC. Secret Shopper Data on Private Prices in the Nursing Home Industry from 2008 to 2010. Medical Care Research and Review 2019.
• Song LD, Saghafian S. The Spillover Effects of Hospital Closures on the Efficiency and Quality of Other Hospitals. HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-006. 2019.
• Wittenberg E, James LP, Prosser LA. Spillover Effects on Caregivers’ and Family Members’ Utility: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Pharmacoeconomics. 2019; 37 (4): 475-499.
• Hammitt JK, Geng F, Guo X, Nielsen CP. Valuing Mortality Risk in China: Comparing Stated-Preference Estimates from 2005 and 2016. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 2019 Jun;58(2-3):167-186.

2018

• Pandya A, Doran T, Zhu J, Walker S, Arntson E, Ryan AM. Modelling the Cost-Effectiveness of Pay-for-Performance in Primary Care in the UK. BMC Medicine 2018; 16 (1): 135. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1126-3

2020

Fangli Geng was awarded the 2020 Raiffa Award from the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. The fund is intended to support the training of scholars pursuing doctoral and post-doctoral studies in decision and risk analysis.

John Giardina was awarded the 2020 Raiffa Award from the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. The fund is intended to support the training of scholars pursuing doctoral and post-doctoral studies in decision and risk analysis.

2019

Allison Portnoy was awarded the 2019 Clarence James and Sarah Bradley Gamble Scholarship, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Allison Portnoy was awarded the 2019 Michael von Clemm Traveling Fellowship from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Winners are awarded to students traveling abroad in support of academic courses, supervised thesis work, or academic program-related internships.

John Giardina was awarded the 2019 GSAS Graduate Society Summer Predissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. Awards are given to “support to outstanding GSAS doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences for the purpose of summer language study and/or preliminary dissertation research or fieldwork.”

Lina Song was awarded the 2019 (with coauthor Soroush Saghafian) First Place Award at the College of Healthcare Best Paper Competition, Production Operations Management Society (POMS) Annual Meeting. Paper Title: “Do Hospital Closures Improve the Efficiency and Quality of Other Hospitals?” Winners are awarded to “outstanding papers in the field of Healthcare Operations Management. Each submitted paper is judged based on its contribution towards the advancement of theory and practice of Healthcare Operations Management.”

Jinyi Zhu was awarded the Lee B. Lusted Student Award in the Quantitative Methods & Theoretical Developments (QMTD) from the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM). “Trainee achievement is recognized by the annual presentation of the Lee B. Lusted Student Prizes for outstanding presentations of research at the Annual Meeting.”

2018

Lyndon James* was awarded the 2018 Teaching Assistant Award from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Winners are nominated by students to recognize “teaching assistants who have demonstrated excellence as teaching as characterized by commitment, preparation, quality of presentation, time for questions and other factors related to instruction.”

Allison Portnoy was awarded the 2018 Uwe Brinkmann Memorial Travel Award from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The fund is awarded to doctoral students conducting field research in international health epidemiology.

Zachary Ward was awarded the 2018 Raiffa Award from the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. The fund is intended to support the training of scholars pursuing doctoral and post-doctoral studies in decision and risk analysis.

Jinyi Zhu was awarded the 2018 Raiffa Award from the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. The fund is intended to support the training of scholars pursuing doctoral and post-doctoral studies in decision and risk analysis.

2017

Katherine Lofgren was awarded a 2017 Certificate from Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning for exceptional teaching in the Core Course in Health Policy (HLTHPOL 2000A). The Bok Center awards these certificates to teaching fellows, teaching assistants, and course assistants who receive an overall rating of 4.5 or above on the Q evaluation five point scale.

Zachary Ward was awarded the 2017 Raiffa Award from the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. The Fund is intended to support the training of scholars pursuing doctoral and post-doctoral studies in decision and risk analysis.

Jinyi Zhu was awarded the 2017 Raiffa Award from the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. The Fund is intended to support the training of scholars pursuing doctoral and post-doctoral studies in decision and risk analysis.

2016

Katherine Lofgren was awarded the 2016 Raiffa Award from the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. The Fund is intended to support the training of scholars pursuing doctoral and post-doctoral studies in decision and risk analysis.

Katherine Lofgren was awarded the 2016 GSAS Summer Fellowship Award from the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Vidit Munshi was awarded a 2016 Teaching Assistant Award from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Winners are nominated by students to recognize “teaching assistants who have demonstrated excellence as teaching as characterized by commitment, preparation, quality of presentation, time for questions and other factors related to instruction.”

Zachary Ward was awarded the 2016 Raiffa Award from the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. The Fund is intended to support the training of scholars pursuing doctoral and post-doctoral studies in decision and risk analysis.

Zach Ward received extensive press coverage for his research focused on obesity in the United States from Boston Magazine and Live Science.

Mark Shrime was featured in the New York Times for his research focused on surgical delivery in low- and middle-income countries and the accessibility of safe surgeries.

Paula Chu had her research on yoga and cardiovascular health featured on Reuter’s and CBS News.

Mark Shrime received press from Fast Company for a piece he wrote on how easy it is to get medical research published and how to keep an eye out for fake journals.