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
Read more...Summer Courses Return to In-Person
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
Read more...The Ethics of Benefit-Cost Analysis
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
Read more...Costing Capacity Roadmap
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
Read more...Pandya Receives Excellence in Teaching Award
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
Read more...Economic Evaluation of COVID-19 Policies
CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya outlined how economic evaluation methods could be used to improve the process of making difficult policy choices around COVID-19 in a recently co-authored
Read more...Clinical Effectiveness with Steven Pearson
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.
Read more...Economics of Integration of Immunization
The EPIC team at CHDS, led by CHDS faculty Stephen Resch, performed a systematic review of literature to describe research on the costs and cost-effectiveness of integrating
Read more...Federal Food Service Guidelines in the Workplace
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
Read more...Valuing Health System Strengthening
Nathaniel Hendrix, CHDS faculty Stéphane Verguet, and colleagues performed a systematic review of cost-effectiveness analyses that assessed activities designed to strengthen health
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