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Nardeen Ayad and Amit Kumar were selected this year as the Center for Health Decision Science Educational Innovation Scholars. Scholars work part-time on a variety of projects that support

In a new episode of PolicyCast, CHDS faculty Soroush Saghafian and colleague Amitabh Chandra discuss the important role of data analysis and smart policy design in fixing the healthcare

The Biden Administration issued several mandates in 2021 requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates were

Early childhood development (ECD) sets the foundation for healthy and successful lives with important consequences for education, labor market outcomes, and other domains of well-being. Even though

After two remote years, the Decision Science summer courses return to being fully in-person this summer. In both 2020 and 2021 the courses were taught via synchronous ZOOM sessions

Conventional benefit-cost analysis is well-established and widely used globally to assess policy options that profoundly affect public health. The normative assumptions that underlie the

CHDS faculty Stephen Resch and Research Staff Joseph Corlis produced “A Roadmap for Implementing Change in Costing Capacity and Practices” as part of a project supported by the

CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya received the 2022 Roger L. Nichols Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Harvard Chan School’s Commencement Ceremony. The award is selected through a review of

Steven Pearson spoke about the role of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) in encouraging the consideration of cost-effectiveness in US drug policy in a recent CHDS seminar.

A recent study by CHDS Research Scientist Shafika Abrahams-Gessel and faculty Thomas A. Gaziano showed that federal food service guidelines improve health outcomes and are cost-saving. Despite