CHDS’ Affiliated Faculty Rochelle Walensky has been appointed to direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the incoming Biden/Harris administration.
Read more...Upcoming Benefit-Cost Analysis Workshops/Conference
CHDS faculty Lisa A. Robinson and Stephen Resch will present an on-line professional development workshop on January 25 and 26, 2021, titled “Valuing Changes in Health and Longevity”
Read more...Gaziano Co-Chairs WHF Global Summit
CHDS faculty member Thomas Gaziano, MD, MSc is co-chairing the World Heart Federation’s Heart Talks: A Series of the 5th Global Summit on Circulatory Health, which launched on October 8, 2020.
Read more...New Benefit-Cost Analysis Course
On September 21-25, CHDS Deputy Director Lisa A. Robinson is teaching a new on-line short course, Benefit-Cost Analysis: Valuing Life and Health.
Read more...Measles Vaccine Immunization Delivery
CHDS Post-Doctoral Fellow Allison Portnoy and Faculty Stéphane Verguet with others published an article in Value in Health about the two main delivery platforms of the measles vaccine
Read more...Sue J. Goldie Receives Excellence in Teaching Award
Sue J. Goldie, CHDS Faculty Director and the Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been named the 2020 recipient of the
Read more...Sue J. Goldie on Teaching During COVID-19
In just a few short months, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought global health to the forefront of education in nearly every classroom, regardless of discipline or area of study. Educators
Read more...Jamie Cohen Successfully Defends Dissertation
Jamie Cohen, 5th year doctoral student in Decision Sciences/Health Policy, successfully defended her dissertation, Applications of Mathematical Modeling to Evaluate Cervical Cancer
Read more...Valuing COVID Mortality Risks
CHDS faculty James K. Hammitt is quoted in several recent articles on the value of reducing deaths from the COVID pandemic, including the Wall Street Journal, fivethirtyeight.com, and Forbes.
Read more...“Studio-in-a-Box”
CHDS’ Media Hub aims to establish processes and strategies for effectively utilizing media in education. Consistent with this goal, Media Hub lead Jacob Waxman
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