CHDS faculty Thomas Gaziano, Shafika Abrahams-Gessel, and colleagues published results of the IMPACT-BP clinical trial indicating that reliable home-based hypertension care in rural South Africa
Read more...Assessing Models of Maternal Mortality
CHDS faculty Zachary Ward and Sue J. Goldie and colleagues compared country-specific maternal mortality estimates for 2020 from three models in a recent eClinical Medicine article
Read more...Inequalities in Major Infectious Diseases
CHDS faculty Stéphane Verguet and colleagues recently published research in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization on the inequalities associated with diarrhea, pneumonia,
Read more...New OECD Research on “Valuing Life”
The OECD’s pathbreaking new report, Mortality Risk Valuation in Policy Assessment: A Global Meta-Analysis of Value of Statistical Life Studies, substantially improves the evidence base for policy
Read more...Cost-Effectiveness of Blood Pressure Targets
CHDS affiliated faculty Karen Smith recently co-authored a cost-effectiveness analysis of intensive blood pressure targets in settings with blood pressure measurement error
Read more...Non-Communicable Disease Mortality Trends
CHDS’ Zachary Ward discussed both the progress and challenges in meeting the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in reducing mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCD)
Read more...Hunink Collaborates with Media Hub
CHDS adjunct faculty Myriam Hunink has published new teaching material culminating from an immersion residency with the CHDS Media Hub from Fall, 2024. These educational resources
Read more...Analytics Science for Problem Solving
In his book, Insight-Driven Problem Solving: Analytics Science to Improve the World, CHDS faculty Soroush Saghafian explores how analytics can drive meaningful improvements.
Read more...Breast Cancer Progress on UN Development Goals
CHDS’s Jagpreet Chhatwal and colleagues forecasted global breast cancer trends to 2030 and found that a more nuanced metric revealed signs of progress for most countries despite failing to achieve
Read more...CHDS Welcomes Incoming PhD Students
Kirsten Gallant and Isabella Impalli join the Decision Science track of the Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy in Fall, 2025. Gallant holds a BA in Economics from St. Francis Xavier University
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