Author: Christina Fasano

Recent PhD graduate Ye Shen received the Best Paper Award from the AcademyHealth Child Health Services Research Interest Group for Insurance Dynamics During Childhood in the Fragmented

CHDS’ Allison Portnoy, Nicolas Menzies, and collaborators authored a recent modeling study that examined how the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development

CHDS’s Emily Burger led a team, including Jane Kim, Stephen Sy, Mary Caroline Regan, and former postdoctoral fellow Jenny Spencer, as well as other collaborators, to examine the long-term

Multi-state models for changes in a state (e.g., of health or illness) often assume that the transition rate is constant with time spent in the state (the “Markov” assumption). A new method

Radhika Tampi, doctoral student in Health Policy concentrating in Decision Science, successfully defended her dissertation, “Simulation of Policy Levers Across the Tuberculosis Care Cascade.”

Integrated interventions can more efficiently address syndemics, which involve interacting epidemics driven by social and structural factors that can concentrate excess disease burden

CHDS faculty Jagpreet Chhatwal, together with collaborator Rachael Fleurence, has received the Society for Medical Decision Making’s John M. Eisenberg Award for Practical

Ye Shen, doctoral student in Health Policy concentrating in Decision Science, successfully defended her thesis, “Insights into the Fragmented US Health System through Simulation Modeling

CHDS faculty Uwe Siebert has been chosen to receive the 2026 Career Achievement Award from the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) in recognition of his significant contributions to the field of

Health policy decisions often rely on decision-analytic computer models to compare costs and health outcomes when direct evidence is incomplete. Although we can almost never eliminate uncertainty