Understanding who gains and who loses from policy interventions is essential to sound decision-making. However, assessing the distributional equity of policy impacts is very challenging.
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Saghafian’s PIAS-Lab Receives DOD Award
CHDS’ Soroush Saghafian, his lab, the Public Impact Analytics Science Lab (PIAS-Lab), and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute recently received a grant from the Department of Defense (DOD)
Read more...Risk Factors Underlying Disparities in TB Outcomes
In a study recently published in Lancet Public Health, CHDS faculty Nicolas Menzies and first author Mathilda Regan, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Population,
Read more...Beate Jahn 2024 President-Elect of SMDM
Beate Jahn, PhD, long term visitor and CHDS collaborator, was named 2024 President-elect of the Society for Medical Decision Making in the recent election for 2024 – 2025 Officers and Trustees.
Read more...The Economic Value of Avoidable Mortality
CHDS’ Stéphane Verguet and colleagues recently published in Nature Medicine that reducing preventable deaths from major noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries around the world
Read more...Potential Benefit of New TB Treatment Regimens
In a recent study, CHDS’ Nicolas Menzies and colleagues used mathematical modelling to quantify the potential health impact and cost-savings for a hypothetical pan-tuberculosis regimen
Read more...Evaluating Strategies to Accelerate Cervical Cancer Elimination
CHDS researchers Allison Portnoy, Jane Kim, and Emily Burger evaluated vaccination and screening strategies to accelerate elimination of cervical cancer in Norway. In order to accelerate progress towards
Read more...Decision Science Mentorship
CHDS’ Sue J. Goldie, Jane Kim, and Ankur Pandya, with PhD student Janice Jhang discuss the pivotal role of mentoring in the field of decision science in the recent news story
Read more...Developing Utilities for Children’s Health
Methods for estimating changes in health-related quality of life (HRQL) for children have lagged behind comparable research for adults, yet are essential to better support economic evaluation.
Read more...Two Doctoral Students Join CHDS
Hanxuan (Astrid) Yu and Janice Jhang join the PhD Program in Health Policy, decision science track in Fall, 2024. Astrid Yu earned a BS in Psychology from Beijing Normal University in 2021 and
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