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CHDS faculty Stéphane Verguet and colleagues recently published research in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization on the inequalities associated with diarrhea, pneumonia, and measles deaths for children under five years old in

The OECD’s pathbreaking new report, Mortality Risk Valuation in Policy Assessment: A Global Meta-Analysis of Value of Statistical Life Studies, substantially improves the evidence base for policy

CHDS affiliated faculty Karen Smith recently co-authored a cost-effectiveness analysis of intensive blood pressure targets in settings with blood pressure measurement error

CHDS’ Zachary Ward discussed both the progress and challenges in meeting the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in reducing mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCD)

CHDS adjunct faculty Myriam Hunink published new teaching material culminating from an immersion residency with the CHDS Media Hub from Fall, 2024. These educational resources

In his book, Insight-Driven Problem Solving: Analytics Science to Improve the World, CHDS faculty Soroush Saghafian explores how analytics can drive meaningful improvements.

CHDS’s Jagpreet Chhatwal and colleagues forecasted global breast cancer trends to 2030 and found that a more nuanced metric revealed signs of progress for most countries despite failing to achieve

Kirsten Gallant and Isabella Impalli join the Decision Science track of the Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy in Fall, 2025. Gallant holds a BA in Economics from St. Francis Xavier University

CHDS faculty Shafika Abrahams-Gessel and Thomas Gaziano and colleagues recently published a formative evaluation of the IMPACT-BP hypertension control trial in South Africa. In rural KwaZulu-Natal (KZN)

CHDS affiliate Yuli (Lily) Hsieh recently published a cost-effectiveness analysis of tuberculosis (TB) screening among US migrants. Between 2017 and 2021, 71% of TB cases were in non-U.S.-born individuals and the