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Periodontitis, an inflammatory disease affecting the gums, and type2 diabetes are both common diseases in adults that are related in both directions: periodontal disease can affect diabetes

On March 9-12, 2020, Professor James Hammitt will direct his annual, 4-day course: Environmental Health Risk: Analysis and Applications. Offered through the Executive and Continuing Professional Education

CHDS’ Media Hub aims to establish processes and strategies for effectively utilizing media in education. Consistent with this goal, Media Hub lead Jacob Waxman recently launched the “Studio-out-of-the-Box” initiative.

Home-based cervical cancer screening with self-collection of HPV samples may be a cost-effective way to improve screening coverage in El Salvador, according to a new modeling study

Jenny Spencer, a postdoctoral fellow at CHDS, received the award for the best oral presentation at the 8th annual Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center’s Celebration of Early Career

James Hammitt was a keynote speaker at the first European conference of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, held at the Toulouse School of Economics (France). His presentation, ‘Accounting

Dr. Rebecca McDonald from the University of Birmingham, UK recently presented a seminar at CHDS on Time Preferences and the Value of a Life Year (VOLY). The VOLY is derived by aggregating

CHDS’s Thomas Gaziano and Shafika Abrahams-Gessel recently attended the public research showcase on Health and Ageing in Southern Africa: Addressing Inequities Over the Life Course

Jinyi Zhu, a PhD student in Health Policy and Decision Sciences at CHDS, received the 2019 Stephen Pauker Award for Quantitative Methods and Theoretical Developments

Decision Science was introduced to the incoming Health Policy PhD cohort through a series of 5 sessions taught by CHDS faculty. All Health Policy doctoral students participate in a yearlong