Author: Christina Fasano

An important challenge for the use of screening and diagnostic tests is determining the threshold for defining whether the result is positive or negative, when the results are measured on a continuous

CHDS affiliate Allison Portnoy, Boston University assistant professor of global health, has been named a 2025 Junior Faculty Fellow at the Boston University Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing

CHDS faculty Jennifer Yeh and Zachary Ward and colleagues published a study in JAMA Oncology revealing that adult survivors of childhood cancer experience earlier onset and a higher lifetime risk of select chronic

Doctoral student Ye Shen was awarded the inaugural Social Equity and Health Equity (SEHE) grant in Spring, 2025. Shen was selected as one of 28 Harvard University PhD students across all

Teaching fellows from the course Decision Science for Public Health, RDS 202, offered in Spring, 2025, joined CHDS faculty director Sue J. Goldie and senior research scientist Eve Wittenberg

CHDS faculty Stéphane Verguet received the Harvard Chan School Mentoring Award in recognition of his enrichment of the academic, professional, or personal development of students

Recent graduate, Fangli Geng, of the Decision Science track of the Health Policy PhD program, received the 2025 AcademyHealth Outstanding Dissertation Award. The award recognizes Geng’s

CHDS faculty Jagpreet Chhatwal is a member of a newly formed ISPOR Working Group on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), which published its first report on opportunities, challenges, and policy

Decision analytic models are a foundational tool in health economics, shaping how we evaluate the costs and benefits of interventions. As discussed by Jeremy Labrecque and Maurice Korf

How to integrate environmental damage, including health impacts, into assessments of economic activities was the topic of a recent OECD workshop on environmental impact valuation.