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Lina Song and Vidit Munshi, doctoral students in Decision Science/Health Policy, both successfully defended their doctoral theses this May, via ZOOM. Song’s dissertation, “Data-Driven

In just a few short months, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought global health to the forefront of education in nearly every classroom, regardless of discipline or area of study. Educators

CHDS faculty Eve Wittenberg “zoomed” with high school students and undergraduates across the US in a Career Exploration Day on-line conference

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of disease surveillance data for understanding the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths within communities, and how these

CHDS has awarded the 2020 Howard Raiffa Fund to health policy doctoral candidates John Giardina and Fangli Geng. Giardina’s project will focus on analyzing recent advances in personalized

Jamie Cohen, 5th year doctoral student in Decision Sciences/Health Policy, successfully defended her dissertation, Applications of Mathematical Modeling to Evaluate Cervical Cancer

Acute pulmonary embolism is a relatively common and serious medical condition, and there is some uncertainty around the optimal treatment choice. There are tradeoffs among ventricular

CHDS’s James Hammitt presented two seminars at Duke University. The first, “Fair Innings: The Utilitarian and Prioritarian Value of Risk Reduction over a Whole Lifetime,” describes

A new book, The Future of Risk Management, features a chapter by CHDS researcher Lisa A. Robinson and co-authors W. Kip Viscusi and Richard J. Zeckhauser on the problems associated with consumer

A Lancet Public Health article by CHDS researchers has resulted in numerous news outlets featuring the research. Emily Burger and Jane Kim have given interviews to Newsweek, Popular Science, Gizmodo,