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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

CHDS affiliated faculty Soroush Saghafian was awarded the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) MSOM Society’s 2021 Young Scholar Prize

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

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

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

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

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

Eyal Zimlichman, Sheba Medical Center’s Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer, discussed innovations to address the COVID-19 pandemic at the May, 2021 CHDS seminar. Zimlichman presented

The “efficiency” of a program depends on how the benefits and costs are distributed in a population and on the units in which benefits and costs are measured, the so-called “numeraire.” This

With COVID-19 and beyond, advancing toward universal health care will be more difficult for many countries. Local national priority setting is urgently required to provide health