The COVID-19 pandemic stimulated debate about the extent to which societies are willing to make trade-offs between health and economic activity. At a recent CHDS seminar, Emily Lancsar
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U.S. Updates Influential Economic Evaluation Guidance
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently substantially revised its guidance on evaluating major regulations and government investments, which will have profound effects on how agencies estimate
Read more...Chhatwal Evaluates Hepatitis C Elimination Plan at White House
CHDS faculty Jagpreet Chhatwal evaluated the cost and benefits of President Biden’s national hepatitis C elimination plan. Using a decision-analytic model, Chhatwal’s team simulated the hepatitis C epidemic
Read more...Correcting for BMI Self-Reporting Bias
CHDS faculty Zachary Ward and colleagues developed a novel method for correcting self-reporting bias of body-mass index (BMI) to estimate state-specific prevalence of severe obesity
Read more...HAALSA Study Renewed for 5 Years
CHDS faculty Thomas Gaziano, in collaboration with Harvard Chan researchers and colleagues in South Africa, received additional funding to continue and expand work in the HAALSA
Read more...Wright Promoted to Associate Professor
CHDS faculty Davene Wright has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Population Medicine (DPM) at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute,
Read more...Verguet Awarded Climate Seed Funding
The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University awarded CHDS faculty Stéphane Verguet a seed funding grant to explore pathways to low-carbon, high-quality
Read more...FAMNET Scholar Receives Early Career Award
Hadley Stevens Smith, a member of the Family Well-being Research Network’s (FAMNETs) Research Scholar Corps, is the inaugural recipient of the Society for Medical Decision Making’s (SMDMs)
Read more...Jameson 2023 INFORMS Video Finalist
CHDS Doctoral Student Jacob Jameson is a finalist in the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2023 Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR)
Read more...Gaziano Moderates WHF “Heart Café”
CHDS faculty Tom Gaziano chaired a “Heart Café” discussion hosted by the World Heart Federation (WHF) at the European Society of Cardiology annual scientific sessions in Amsterdam.
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