Enhancing benefit-cost analysis to provide more information on how policies affect the advantaged and disadvantaged was a major theme of the 2024 Society for Benefit-Cost
Read more...Kim Honored for Mentoring
CHDS’s Jane Kim is recipient of the Marianne Wessling-Resnick Memorial Mentoring Award in recognition of her mentoring of researchers and faculty at the Harvard Chan School.
Read more...Promoting Adolescent Investment in Diabetes Care
CHDS faculty Davene Wright has been awarded NIH funding to evaluate financial incentive programs designed to help adolescents with type-1 diabetes adhere to self-management of their glucose levels.
Read more...FAMNET Online Instrument Repositories
The Family Well-being Research Network (FAMNET) a collaborative project of CHDS faculty Eve Wittenberg, affiliated faculty Lisa Prosser at the University of Michigan, and Janel
Read more...Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Inequities
Dorit Stein, Global Health and Population (GHP) PhD candidate, and CHDS faculty Stéphane Verguet, simulated the potential health equity impact of improving hypertension management
Read more...Advancing Research on Mortality and Morbidity Valuation
Valuing changes in health and longevity poses many difficult challenges. To encourage innovative new research, CHDS’s James Hammitt, Lisa Robinson, and Michael Eber participated in a workshop
Read more...Improving Measles Immunization Delivery
Controlling measles in low- and middle-income countries poses significant challenges, as discussed in by Kevin McCarthy in a CHDS seminar. McCarthy is a Senior Research Manager at the
Read more...Improving Estimates of Air Pollution Health Impacts and Values
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program (BenMAP) is widely used to calculate the number and economic value of air pollution-related deaths
Read more...Family Caregivers’ Financial Well-Being
Family caregivers in the U.S. are systematically unsupported, both through the health care system and within the workforce. Dr. Megan Hebdon provided insights from her expanding research on
Read more...Using and Improving Benefit-Cost Analysis
Benefit-cost analysis is a well-established and widely used approach for systematically assessing policy impacts, as discussed by CHDS’s Lisa Robinson in a recent Free Range Podcast.
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