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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

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

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

CHDS’ affiliated faculty Myriam Hunink directs the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES), an international academic research institute that is part of the Erasmus University

The COVID-19 crisis has focused unprecedented attention on the use of benefit-cost analysis and approaches for valuing mortality risk reductions, commonly referred to as the

The Society for Risk Analysis recently featured a webinar, “Valuing Statistical Lives: Concepts, Current Practices, and Challenges,” led by CHDS researcher Lisa A. Robinson.

CHDS, in conjunction with the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis (HCRA), hosted a seminar by Neal Fann from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Air Pollution and Population Growth.

Dr. Rebecca McDonald from the University of Birmingham, UK recently presented a seminar at CHDS on Time Preferences and the Value of a Life Year (VOLY). The VOLY is derived by aggregating

CHDS hosted a seminar with Matthew Robson, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics at University of York. The seminar was on “Differential Effects of the Smoking Ban in England.”

CHDS hosted a seminar with Shaun Forbes, PhD Candidate in Health Services Research at the Brown University School of Public Health, on “Propagating Ambiguity into Mathematical Models