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
Read more...Impact of Batch Ordering Diagnostic Imaging in the ED
Jacob Jameson, third year doctoral student in Health Policy, and CHDS faculty Soroush Saghafian published a study examining how physician variation in batch versus sequential test ordering in the emergency
Read more...CHDS Welcomes Ethicist Ole F. Norheim
CHDS is delighted to welcome Ole F. Norheim as CHDS Affiliate Faculty. Norheim recently joined the Harvard Chan School faculty as Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health
Read more...“One Screen” Cervical Cancer Control
CHDS faculty Nicole Campos and a team of researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), including Principal Deputy Director of the NCI Douglas Lowy, Senior Investigator Mark Schiffman, and
Read more...Lancet Commission Global Health 2050 Report
CHDS faculty Sue J. Goldie and Stéphane Verguet served on The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, which recently released Global Health 2050: The Path to Halving Premature Death by
Read more...Upcoming Distributional Analysis Workshop
Understanding who gains and who loses from policy interventions is essential to sound decision-making. However, assessing the distributional equity of policy impacts is very challenging.
Read more...The Economic Value of Avoidable Mortality
CHDS’ Stéphane Verguet and colleagues recently published in Nature Medicine that reducing preventable deaths from major noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries around the world
Read more...Potential Benefit of New TB Treatment Regimens
In a recent study, CHDS’ Nicolas Menzies and colleagues used mathematical modelling to quantify the potential health impact and cost-savings for a hypothetical pan-tuberculosis regimen
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