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CHDS co-sponsored a seminar on “Health Impacts of Air Quality Warnings” with the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and the Society for Risk Analysis – New England.

Dr. James Hammitt, Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences and Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, marks 25 years of teaching, research, and service at Harvard University.

The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis offers its inaugural Outstanding Dissertation Award to recognize an outstanding PhD thesis dealing with the theory and/or practice

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently sought public comment for a proposal to regulate the use of cost-benefit analysis in its decision-making. CHDS Senior Research

New guidelines for cervical cancer were published by the U.S Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) with research by Jane Kim, CHDS faculty and professor of decision science.

CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya was awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health to evaluate stroke prevention and treatment policies in the U.S.

Clinical research takes an estimated 17 years before applying it to real-world scenarios, delaying access to important discoveries and advances. CHDS faculty Jane Kim

In conjunction with the MDM Teaching Interest Group, faculty Ankur Pandya and incoming doctoral student Lyndon James developed a framework for understanding the variety of

CHDS adjunct faculty Myriam Hunink is offering RDS 288: Methods for Decision Making in Medicine during the second summer session of the Program in Clinical Effectiveness.

HSPH Adjunct Professor Uwe Siebert spoke at a CHDS lunchtime seminar on the potential bias that can accompany the use of “real world” evidence in modeling.