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
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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
Read more...Exploring Federal Research Priorities
The U.S. government recently released a report on its research priorities, focusing on issues related to estimating policy impacts and valuing outcomes. Jeffrey Shrader discussed these priorities
Read more...Joint Modeling of DALYs and QALYs
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) are typically treated as alternative outcome measures. John A. Graves presented three approaches
Read more...Value of Information Biases and Heterogeneity
Accounting for both heterogeneity and biases in economic evaluations presents difficult challenges, which can be addressed by simulation models as discussed in Fernando
Read more...ISPOR Panel on Health Economics and Generative AI
CHDS’ Jagpreet Chhatwal moderated “Emerging Landscape of Health Economic Evaluation in the Era of Generative AI” at the 2024 International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and
Read more...FAMNET Family Well-being Research Summit
The Family Well-being Research Network (FAMNET), an NIH-funded research network advancing the science of emotional well-being, hosted an interdisciplinary research summit in Cambridge
Read more...Disparities in TB Incidence
CHDS faculty Nicolas Menzies and his team found disparities in tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates when analyzing US data by racial and ethnic groups and by gender. Although previous studies
Read more...Soroush Saghafian: Making AI Impactful in Healthcare and Public Policy
CHDS’ Soroush Saghafian’s work at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), healthcare and public policy was highlighted in a recent FastCompany article. Saghafian shared insights from his work as
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