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Posted on June 5, 2023July 22, 2024

Valuing Mortality Risk: Per Life, Life Year, or QALY?

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The monetary value of a reduction in mortality risk is often quantified using one of three concepts: the “value per statistical life” (VSL),“value per statistical life year” (VSLY),

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Posted on May 18, 2023July 22, 2024

Including Spillover Effects in Economic Evaluation

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Edward Henry, doctoral student at the University of Galway, presented a set of new recommendations for incorporating “health spillover” into the economic evaluations

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Posted on May 8, 2023July 22, 2024

CHDS at 2023 Benefit-Cost Conference

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The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis 2023 annual conference featured work conducted by several CHDS researchers. Faculty member James Hammitt presented his work

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Posted on May 4, 2023July 22, 2024

Preventing Coronary Heart Disease from Diabetes

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People living with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). In a CHDS seminar, Bart Ferket discussed using risk stratification to prevent CHD among diabetics.

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Posted on January 9, 2023July 22, 2024

Jameson Receives Raiffa Award

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Jacob Jameson, first-year student in the Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy, has received the 2022 Howard Raiffa Fund award. The Howard Raiffa Fund was established in 1996

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Posted on November 4, 2022July 22, 2024

Jennifer Yeh Promoted to Associate Professor

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Jennifer Yeh, CHDS affiliate and scientific researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School.

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Posted on September 9, 2022July 22, 2024

CHDS Welcomes New Doctoral Students

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CHDS welcomes Jenna Rogers and Jacob Jameson, new students in the PhD Program in Health Policy decision science track, beginning Fall 2022. Jenna Rogers graduated from

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Posted on July 27, 2022July 22, 2024

Relative Health Improvements with Alternative Frameworks

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The social value of decreasing health risks to people of different age, health status, and income depends on the evaluation framework employed in an analysis. These values can be evaluated using cost-effectiveness

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Posted on June 16, 2022July 22, 2024

Post-Acute Care in China

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Fangli Geng, Ph.D. candidate at CHDS, collaborated with researchers from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College to develop

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Posted on June 8, 2022July 22, 2024

Cost-Ineffectiveness of Lockdowns

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COVID-19 vaccination is substantially more cost-effective than lockdowns, according to research conducted by CHDS faculty affiliate Joseph Pliskin and Ronen Arbel. Early in the COVID-19

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