CHDS faculty and students presented at the INFORMS Healthcare 2023 Conference in Toronto in July. The conference brought together digital technology communication developers,
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Zachary Ward Appointed Assistant Professor
CHDS’s Zachary Ward has been appointed Assistant Professor of Health Decision Science in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Read more...SMDM Free Certification Program
The Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) is offering four virtual short courses that focus on the foundational knowledge of medical decision making. Courses are open to all at no cost
Read more...Fairness of Machine-Assisted Decisions
Using algorithms to support, rather than determine, a decision requires addressing several issues of fairness, as discussed by Jann Spiess in a recent CHDS seminar. Spiess is an Assistant Professor
Read more...Preferences and Precision Medicine
The uptake and delivery of precision medicine is very sensitive to the preferences of those affected, as discussed by Hadley Stevens Smith in a recent CHDS seminar. Smith is an Assistant
Read more...Robinson Keynote at Milan SBCA Conference
CHDS Deputy Director Lisa Robinson will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (SBCA) European conference, held in Milan, Italy on September 11-12, 2023.
Read more...Wright Recognized for Excellence in Mentorship
CHDS faculty Davene Wright received the 2023 Gordon Moore Award for Excellence in Mentoring from the Department of Population Medicine in the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.
Read more...Portnoy Appointed as Asst. Professor at BU
Allison Portnoy, former Vaccine Decision Science Policy Fellow at CHDS, will begin as an assistant professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health.
Read more...Handbook of Applied Health Economics in Vaccines
The recently published open-access book, Handbook of Applied Health Economics in Vaccines, provides insights into the complexities of vaccine discovery, financing, and distribution.
Read more...John Giardina Defends Dissertation
John Giardina, doctoral student in Health Policy concentrating in Decision Science, successfully defended his thesis, “Accounting for Heterogeneity in Health Decision Analysis.” Overseen by Ankur Pandya
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