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Professor James Hammitt spoke at a conference on “Ordeals in Health Care: Ethics and Efficient Delivery,” sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center at the Harvard Law School in May.

Thomas Gaziano, CHDS faculty, gave an invited presentation at Duke University grand rounds as the inaugural global health visiting professor. Gaziano presented two separate sessions on areas

Doctoral candidate and programmer Zach Ward presented a seminar entitled “Open-Source Modeling Software” at CHDS this past month. Ward showcased Amua, an open source

Incoming health policy doctoral student Lyndon James, and current global and population health doctoral student Allison Portnoy, were honored with awards from the

Antibiotic resistance can develop through antibiotic use – but what other factors can influence the spread of antibiotic resistance? Researchers from Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital,

Carlos Castañeda-Orjuela presented a project on the use of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) for pneumococcal vaccines (PV) in Latin American countries at a CHDS research seminar.

CHDS’ Nicolas Menzies and colleagues estimate that the U.S. is unlikely to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) before the end of the 21st century. Menzies and collaborators

The Immunization Economics global collaborative has recently launched the Immunization Delivery Cost Catalogue: the most comprehensive, current, and standardized

CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya makes the case for using cost-effectiveness analysis to define low-value care in “Adding Cost-Effectiveness to Define Low-Value Care” published in JAMA.

Doctoral candidate Zach Ward volunteers with Harvard’s Project Teach to teach middle school students about infectious disease modeling. Project Teach helps students develop