CHDS Faculty Director Sue J. Goldie received an honorary degree at Albany Medical College’s 2019 commencement ceremonies for her contributions to improving the health of vulnerable
Read more...CHDS Affiliate & Student Honored with Publication Award
CHDS affiliated faculty Soroush Saghafian and CHDS doctoral student Lina Song were awarded first place in the Best Paper Competition for their paper on hospital closures and its impact on the healthcare sector.
Read more...Pandya Receives Fellowship Award
CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya was awarded a Centre for Health Economics (CHE) Research Fellowship from the University of York (UK) for his project “Leveraging Cost-Effectiveness
Read more...Raiffa Award Recipients
CHDS has awarded the annual Howard Raiffa Fund to global health and population doctoral candidate Annie Haakenstad. Haakenstad’s project will focus on improving students’
Read more...Family Effects of Illness Research
CHDS researcher Eve Wittenberg and Adjunct Professor Lisa Prosser guest edited a special, themed issue of PharmacoEconomics on the “spillover” effects of illness on
Read more...Jamison Plenary & Reception
Join the Center for Health Decision Science at the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis annual conference and meeting in Washington D.C., March 13-15, 2019. The conference will feature
Read more...Childhood Cancer Prevalence
Nearly half of all childhood cancers are not being diagnosed globally, according to a new modeling study by CHDS doctoral student Zachary Ward and colleagues.
Read more...Alma-Ata at 40 Years
Last year (2018) marked the 40th anniversary of the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata, a text which underscores the importance of health for all people. The authors of the
Read more...Economic Evaluation Short Courses
The Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at York University announces two short courses this Spring, both focusing on economic evaluation in different contexts. “Statistical Methods in
Read more...Pandya Presents on Low-Value Care
CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya presented “CEA in the USA: A Quantitative Approach to Identify Low-Value Care” at a HPM Research Seminar. Dr. Pandya discussed how in U.S. health policy
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