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.
Read more...Eber Defends Dissertation on Health Preferences
Michael R. Eber successfully defended his dissertation, Essays on Consumer Preferences in Health, as part of the Decision Science Track of the PhD Program in Health Policy at Harvard University.
Read more...Lily Hsieh Successfully Defends Dissertation
Lily Hsieh, doctoral student in Health Policy concentrating in Decision Science, successfully defended her thesis, The Synergy of Real-World Evidence, Transportability, and
Read more...Effects of Pregnancy Exclusions in Trials
While randomized trials (RCTs) are required for approval of new medications, these generally exclude pregnant participants. In a CHDS seminar, Alyssa Bilinski discussed a decision-analytic
Read more...2025 Lemann Brazil Research Fund Awardees
CHDS Faculty Jane Kim and Nicole Campos were awarded funds for the 2025 cycle of the Lemann Brazil Research Fund, which supports research projects on current issues facing Brazil.
Read more...CHDS Faculty Recommend Directed Acyclic Graphs
CHDS Faculty Ankur Pandya, Uwe Siebert, and Myriam Hunink joined colleagues in recommending directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in Decision-Analytic Modeling in a recent Medical Decision Making
Read more...Symposium Honoring Dr. Myriam Hunink
Maria (Myriam) Hunink, MD, PhD was honored for her career achievements at a symposium and celebratory event held at the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, the Netherlands last month.
Read more...Ethics and Benefit-Cost Analysis Special Issue
Benefit-cost analysis is well-established and widely used to inform policy decisions. Its normative foundations are explored in “Ethics and Benefit-Cost Analysis,” a special issue of the Journal of Benefit
Read more...Norheim Contributes to Disease Control Priorities 4 (DCP-4)
CHDS’s Ole Norheim served as one of the editors to the fourth edition of the Disease Control Priorities (DCP-4) Country-Led Priorities Setting for Health volume, released last month. This is the first of four volumes
Read more...The Welfare Burden of Type 1 Diabetes
Conventional methods for valuing health and longevity have several well-known limitations. In a CHDS seminar, Maddalena Ferranna discussed social welfare function analysis
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