CHDS has announced the 2024 Howard Raiffa Fund award recipients as PhD in Health Policy doctoral students Andrea Luviano and Jacob Jameson. Luviano’s project will identify
Read more...Fangli Geng Successfully Defends Dissertation
Fangli Geng, doctoral student in Health Policy concentrating in Decision Science, successfully defended her thesis, “Assessing Value and Optimizing Decision-Making in Post-Acute Care Across Diverse
Read more...Applied Decision Analysis Returns
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...Optimizing Data-Driven Healthcare Decision Making
Wesley Marrero discussed his research on data-driven approaches to optimize healthcare decision making at a recent CHDS seminar. Marrero, an assistant professor in the Thayer School of Engineering at
Read more...CHDS Educational Innovation Scholar Update
During the past year, Janice Jhang and Andrea Luviano, Educational Innovation Scholars at CHDS, contributed to new instructional models and pedagogical approaches to teach decision science.
Read more...Chhatwal Evaluates Hepatitis C Elimination Plan at White House
CHDS faculty Jagpreet Chhatwal evaluated the cost and benefits of President Biden’s national hepatitis C elimination plan. Using a decision-analytic model, Chhatwal’s team simulated the hepatitis C epidemic
Read more...Correcting for BMI Self-Reporting Bias
CHDS faculty Zachary Ward and colleagues developed a novel method for correcting self-reporting bias of body-mass index (BMI) to estimate state-specific prevalence of severe obesity
Read more...CHDS and Broad Institute on Outbreak Science
Outbreak Science project collaborators convened for a full-day meeting to launch its project. The project focuses on high-school education in outbreak science, the study of emerging infections, epidemics
Read more...Fairness of Machine-Assisted Decisions
Using algorithms to support, rather than determine, a decision requires addressing several issues of fairness, as discussed by Jann Spiess in a recent CHDS seminar. Spiess is an Assistant Professor
Read more...John Giardina Defends Dissertation
John Giardina, doctoral student in Health Policy concentrating in Decision Science, successfully defended his thesis, “Accounting for Heterogeneity in Health Decision Analysis.” Overseen by Ankur Pandya
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