In his book, Insight-Driven Problem Solving: Analytics Science to Improve the World, CHDS faculty Soroush Saghafian explores how analytics can drive meaningful improvements.
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Breast Cancer Progress on UN Development Goals
CHDS’s Jagpreet Chhatwal and colleagues forecasted global breast cancer trends to 2030 and found that a more nuanced metric revealed signs of progress for most countries despite failing to achieve
Read more...CHDS Welcomes Incoming PhD Students
Kirsten Gallant and Isabella Impalli join the Decision Science track of the Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy in Fall, 2025. Gallant holds a BA in Economics from St. Francis Xavier University
Read more...Evaluation of Hypertension Control Trial
CHDS faculty Shafika Abrahams-Gessel and Thomas Gaziano and colleagues recently published a formative evaluation of the IMPACT-BP hypertension control trial in South Africa. In rural KwaZulu-Natal (KZN)
Read more...Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Migrants for TB
CHDS affiliate Yuli (Lily) Hsieh recently published a cost-effectiveness analysis of tuberculosis (TB) screening among US migrants. Between 2017 and 2021, 71% of TB cases were in non-U.S.-born individuals and the
Read more...Realizing Economic Benefits of Meditation
CHDS faculty Jagpreet Chhatwal and co-author Rachael Fleurence published Realizing the Economic Potential of Meditation and Mindfulness Practices in Mental Health Care, a commentary
Read more...Pandya on Value of Representation in Trials
CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya presented Quantifying the Value of Representation in Clinical Trials at an Office of Educational Programs ‘Hot Topics’ seminar. Historically, clinical trials have
Read more...Siebert Teaches Decision Analysis in Clinical Research
CHDS Adjunct Professor Uwe Siebert is teaching RDS 286: Decision Analysis in Clinical Research this summer, as he has for the past eleven years. Part of the Summer Program in Clinical Effectiveness
Read more...Preferences Behind a Veil of Ignorance
In conventional benefit-cost analysis, values are based on individuals’ willingness to exchange their own income for the outcomes they experience. Susan Chilton presented an alternative
Read more...CHDS at 2025 SMDM Meeting
Members of the CHDS community contributed to the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM), held in Ann Arbor, Michigan in June, 2025.
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