Sherry Glied, Dean of the Wagner School of Public Service and former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, discussed the path from
Read more...Interpreting HPV Vaccine Effectiveness Results
CHDS faculty Nicole Gastineau Campos and National Cancer Institute Senior Investigators Anil K. Chaturvedi and Aimée R. Kreimer proposed guidance for HPV vaccine effectiveness studies
Read more...Grants Available for Family Well-Being Research
The Family Well-Being Research Network (FAMNET) announces pilot grants for research on the measurement of family well-being. A collaborative effort among HSPH, the University of Michigan, and the University
Read more...Menzies Promoted to Associate Professor
CHDS faculty Nicolas Menzies has been promoted to associate professor of global health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Menzies’s research uses quantitative techniques, including
Read more...Incoming PhD Cohort
CHDS welcomes Tai Dinger and Andrea Luviano to the PhD Program in Health Policy Decision Science track beginning Fall 2021. Dinger graduated from
Read more...Newborn Genetic Screening for Pediatric Cancer Risk
CHDS affiliated faculty Jennifer Yeh and colleagues found that population-based genetic testing of newborns may reduce mortality associated with pediatric cancers and could be cost-effective as sequencing
Read more...Soroush Saghafian Awarded INFORMS Prize
CHDS affiliated faculty Soroush Saghafian was awarded the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) MSOM Society’s 2021 Young Scholar Prize
Read more...COVID-19 and Healthcare Innovation with Eyal Zimlichman
Eyal Zimlichman, Sheba Medical Center’s Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer, discussed innovations to address the COVID-19 pandemic at the May, 2021 CHDS seminar. Zimlichman presented
Read more...Distributional Effects and Benefit-Cost Analysis
The “efficiency” of a program depends on how the benefits and costs are distributed in a population and on the units in which benefits and costs are measured, the so-called “numeraire.” This
Read more...Pooled-funding for Clinical Trials with Osondu Ogbuoji
Dr. Osondu Ogbuoji, Assistant Research Professor at the Duke Global Health Institute and Deputy Director at the Duke Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, presented research on a pooled-funding
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