CHDS faculty Nicole Campos and a team of researchers from the National Cancer Institute, including co-investigators Brian Befano and Li C. Cheung, proposed a resource-efficient
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Social Welfare Functions and Health Policy
Social welfare functions (SWFs) allow policy evaluations to account explicitly for the distribution of well-being effects in the population, unlike conventional benefit-cost analysis.
Read more...CHDS at European SMDM 2023
The 18th Biennial European Conference of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) was held in Berlin, Germany and included contributions by CHDS faculty, researchers,
Read more...Heart Failure Guidelines Found Borderline Cost-Effective
Recent Harvard Chan School MPH graduate Brandon Yan and CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya published a cost-effectiveness analysis of the new 2022 guideline-directed therapy for heart failure with reduced
Read more...Valuing Mortality Risk: Per Life, Life Year, or QALY?
The monetary value of a reduction in mortality risk is often quantified using one of three concepts: the “value per statistical life” (VSL),“value per statistical life year” (VSLY),
Read more...Reducing Children’s Oral Health Disparities
Despite considerable efforts to reduce oral health disparities, poor oral health and quality of dental care continue to disproportionately affect minority and publicly insured children.
Read more...Inaugural Harvard Climate Symposium
At the inaugural Harvard Climate Symposium, CHDS Deputy Director Lisa Robinson participated in a panel on the threats posed by extreme heat, emphasizing the importance of thinking carefully
Read more...Achieving the Cancer Moonshot Goal
Researchers from the National Cancer Institute, led by Meredith S. Shiels, have outlined opportunities to prevent, detect, and treat common cancers in order to achieve the Cancer MoonshotSM goal
Read more...Including Spillover Effects in Economic Evaluation
Edward Henry, doctoral student at the University of Galway, presented a set of new recommendations for incorporating “health spillover” into the economic evaluations
Read more...Jane Kim Appointed Interim Dean
CHDS faculty Jane Kim, Dean for Academic Affairs and K.T. Li Professor of Health Economics, has accepted the role of interim dean at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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