CHDS’ Ankur Pandya will offer an intermediate-advanced level course in experiential learning this spring, RDS 290. This course integrates theoretical concepts, methodological skills, and
Read more...Family Caregivers’ Financial Well-Being
Family caregivers in the U.S. are systematically unsupported, both through the health care system and within the workforce. Dr. Megan Hebdon provided insights from her expanding research on
Read more...Benefits and Costs of COVID Vaccine Mandates
The Biden Administration issued several mandates in 2021 requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates were
Read more...Evaluation of Early Childhood Development Interventions
Early childhood development (ECD) sets the foundation for healthy and successful lives with important consequences for education, labor market outcomes, and other domains of well-being. Even though
Read more...Relative Health Improvements with Alternative Frameworks
The social value of decreasing health risks to people of different age, health status, and income depends on the evaluation framework employed in an analysis. These values can be evaluated using cost-effectiveness
Read more...Summer Courses Return to In-Person
After two remote years, the Decision Science summer courses return to being fully in-person this summer. In both 2020 and 2021 the courses were taught via synchronous ZOOM sessions
Read more...The Ethics of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Conventional benefit-cost analysis is well-established and widely used globally to assess policy options that profoundly affect public health. The normative assumptions that underlie the
Read more...Costing Capacity Roadmap
CHDS faculty Stephen Resch and Research Staff Joseph Corlis produced “A Roadmap for Implementing Change in Costing Capacity and Practices” as part of a project supported by the
Read more...Post-Acute Care in China
Fangli Geng, Ph.D. candidate at CHDS, collaborated with researchers from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College to develop
Read more...Cost-Ineffectiveness of Lockdowns
COVID-19 vaccination is substantially more cost-effective than lockdowns, according to research conducted by CHDS faculty affiliate Joseph Pliskin and Ronen Arbel. Early in the COVID-19
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