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CHDS contributed in many ways to the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM), held in Oslo, Norway, from June 28 to July 1, 2026. The meeting theme

CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya and colleagues examined Oregon’s Medicaid priority‑setting experiment as a case of participatory governance in a recently published article. The authors focused

CHDS’ Sarah Skye Yoden and Ankur Pandya coauthored a WHO Bulletin perspective article with Neil Singh Bedi that described how decision science methods paired

CHDS faculty Zachary Ward and colleagues developed the Global Cancer Workforce microsimulation model for The Lancet Oncology’s Commission on Cancer Workforce.

CHDS’ Jacob Jameson became the first repeat awardee of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching from the Harvard Kennedy School in more than a decade.

Recent PhD graduate Ye Shen received the Best Paper Award from the AcademyHealth Child Health Services Research Interest Group for Insurance Dynamics During Childhood in the Fragmented

CHDS’ Allison Portnoy, Nicolas Menzies, and collaborators authored a recent modeling study that examined how the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development

CHDS’s Emily Burger led a team, including Jane Kim, Stephen Sy, Mary Caroline Regan, and former postdoctoral fellow Jenny Spencer, as well as other collaborators, to examine the long-term

Multi-state models for changes in a state (e.g., of health or illness) often assume that the transition rate is constant with time spent in the state (the “Markov” assumption). A new method

Radhika Tampi, doctoral student in Health Policy concentrating in Decision Science, successfully defended her dissertation, “Simulation of Policy Levers Across the Tuberculosis Care Cascade.”