People living with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). In a CHDS seminar, Bart Ferket discussed using risk stratification to prevent CHD among diabetics.
Read more...Jameson Receives Raiffa Award
Jacob Jameson, first-year student in the Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy, has received the 2022 Howard Raiffa Fund award. The Howard Raiffa Fund was established in 1996
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...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
Read more...Economics of Integration of Immunization
The EPIC team at CHDS, led by CHDS faculty Stephen Resch, performed a systematic review of literature to describe research on the costs and cost-effectiveness of integrating
Read more...Jinyi Zhu Successfully Defends Dissertation
Jinyi Zhu, 6th year doctoral student in Decision Science/Health Policy, successfully defended her thesis, “Decision Modeling to Inform Resource Prioritization: Methods and
Read more...Valuing Outcomes—a CHDS Staff Member Story
FAMNET research assistant Cassidy Bargell faced quality of life decision making in real-time last fall when confronted with a serious illness. As described recently in a Harvard Gazette feature article, Cass experienced
Read more...COVID Decision Support with Goldhaber-Fiebert
Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert discussed his work on informing COVID-19 policy decisions at a recent CHDS seminar. Goldhaber-Fiebert is a Professor of Health Policy at Stanford and
Read more...Action Amidst Uncertainty with Maurice Smith
Maurice Smith discussed the human brain’s control of motor behavior and learning in a recent CHDS seminar. Smith is Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and
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