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We proudly announce CHDS affiliated faculty members’ recognition for their outstanding work in medical decision making. The Society for Medical Decision Making awarded

CHDS faculty Stephen Resch and Lisa A. Robinson participated in a symposium focused on updating and refining the understanding of the economic impact of HIV in low resource settings.

The Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) at Tufts Medical Center announces its call for submissions for the inaugural CEVR Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA)

CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya with doctoral student Jinyi Zhu, and others published a cost-effectiveness analysis of pay-for-performance in primary care in the United Kingdom (UK). Introduced in 2004

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.