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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

CHDS faculty Lisa A. Robinson and James K. Hammitt, and research staff Lucy O’Keeffe, recently published “Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions in Global Benefit-Cost Analysis.”

The CHDS Media Hub team continues its ongoing mission to improve multi-modal pedagogy across the Harvard Chan School through a new partnership between Media Hub Director Jacob Waxman

Natalia Kunst, PhD candidate at the University of Oslo, presented a CHDS lunchtime seminar on “What is the Value of Further Research on the 21-Gene Assay for Breast Cancer Management”.

We proudly announce CHDS affiliated faculty members’ recognition for their outstanding work in medical decision making. The Society for Medical Decision Making awarded

The Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) at Tufts Medical Center announces its call for submissions for the inaugural CEVR Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA)

Dr. James Hammitt, Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences and Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, marks 25 years of teaching, research, and service at Harvard University.

The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis offers its inaugural Outstanding Dissertation Award to recognize an outstanding PhD thesis dealing with the theory and/or practice