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CHDS faculty Jane Kim and Eve Wittenberg experimented with integrating writing skills into the RDS curriculum. “Decision science is a complex field and can seem cryptic to people reading our research”

The Guidelines for Benefit-Cost Analysis team invites case study submissions that test and demonstrate the recommendations of the methods papers developed for the project.

CHDS faculty Nicolas Menzies contributed to the Harvard Catalyst podcast ThinkResearch with the session “The Science of Adding and Subtracting: Modeling Outcomes of Disease.”

CHDS faculty Thomas Gaziano joined other experts in discussing the value of commonly-recommended screening tests in an NBC TODAY article, “5 Medical Tests You Probably Don’t Need.”

Allison Portnoy presented results from her research on measles immunization at the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium Annual Meeting.

CHDS faculty James Hammitt and Lisa Robinson organized sessions at the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis’ annual meeting in Washington DC this past March. These included a professional

Joseph Pliskin, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Professor Emeritus at Ben-Gurion University, published “The Hospital and Clinic Improvement Handbook”

James Hammitt was keynote speaker at the Chinese Economists Society North America Conference, held at the University of Georgia, Athens, April 5-6, 2018. In keeping with the

CHDS Media Hub lead Jake Waxman attended the Harvard Video Multimedia Group’s recent meeting, Studios across Harvard with CHDS coordinator Christina Forte and collaborator

Jane Kim, Stephen Resch, Nicole Campos, and Vidit Munshi took part in the Kolokotrones Symposium on Data Science entitled “Evidence-based policy: How can we use health data to better microsimulation models?”,