Sue J. Goldie, CHDS Faculty Director and the Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health, delivered commencement remarks to the graduating class of her alma mater, Union College
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Hsieh and James Receive Raiffa Awards
CHDS has awarded the 2021 Howard Raiffa Fund to health policy doctoral candidates Yuli (Lily) Hsieh and Lyndon James. Hsieh will create educational case studies and a practical guide on
Read more...Linking CHDS and Harvard Undergraduates
CHDS faculty Eve Wittenberg teaches first-year Harvard undergraduates to effectively craft arguments in a health-focused class in the Harvard College Expository Writing program. Among
Read more...Distance vs. Service Availability Effect on Contraceptive Use
Recently published research by CHDS’ Ryoko Sato and colleagues evaluated the effect of distance to a health facility, along with the services provided at the facility, on contraceptive uptake among married Turkish
Read more...Soroush Saghafian Awarded INFORMS Prize
CHDS affiliated faculty Soroush Saghafian was awarded the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) MSOM Society’s 2021 Young Scholar Prize
Read more...Jinyi Zhu Acknowledged for Teaching Excellence
Jinyi Zhu, PhD student in Health Policy and Decision Sciences at CHDS, was awarded a 2021 Teaching Assistant Award from the Harvard Chan School. The award recognizes important
Read more...Wittenberg and Hammitt on Mask Wearing with CNN
CHDS faculty Eve Wittenberg and James Hammitt discussed how we perceive risks of mask wearing with Sanjay Gupta of CNN as COVID restrictions are relaxed across the US. Wittenberg stressed
Read more...Trial-based Economic Evaluation with Kim Dalziel
Professor Kim Dalziel of the University of Melbourne discussed economic evaluation research conducted alongside clinical trials at the June CHDS research seminar. Head of the Health Economics Unit at
Read more...Emily Burger Presents Research Scientist Seminar
Emily Burger, Harvard T.H. Chan School Research Scientist Associate award-winner, presented at the Spring Research Scientist Seminar Series, May 20, 2021. Burger’s talk presented her recent analysis that quantified
Read more...Risk, Economics, and Decisions Special Issue
Integrating risk assessment, economic evaluation, and uncertainty to inform policy decisions is a core challenge for decision scientists. Professor John S. Evans is a pioneer in tackling this
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