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CHDS faculty James Hammitt and Lisa Robinson chaired key panels on benefit-cost analysis in global health at the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis Meeting on March 15th-17th held in Washington, D.C.

Thomas Gaziano, MD, MSc, of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, has been appointed board member of the World Heart Federation and chair of its Partners Council. Gaziano serves as the representative

Stéphane Verguet, Assistant Professor of Global Health and core faculty of CHDS offers GHP 501—Methods for Health Systems Analysis in Spring term, 2017. The course offers an introduction to modeling

CHDS Director Sue J. Goldie and Senior Research Scientist Eve Wittenberg collaborated on the first on-line introductory course on decision science offered at Harvard.

Josh Salomon, Professor of Global Health and core faculty of CHDS, offers GHP 506 – Measuring Population Health in Spring term, 2017. The course is designed to introduce students to the definition and

Joe Pliskin, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Sidney Liswood Professor of Health Care Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, visited HSPH

CHDS programmer and PhD student Zach Ward launches the development of an open-source decision analytic modeling framework. Called Amua, from the Swahili word for “decide” or “solve”, the software

Professor James Hammitt and Senior Research Scientist Lisa Robinson are on the leadership team of a new project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to develop guidelines to encourage the conduct

CHDS faculty Stephen Resch and Lisa Robinson were hosted by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator for a week-long residency in early November, 2016 to focus on pedagogy in decision science.

CHDS Director Sue J. Goldie welcomed the incoming Master of Public Health class with the annual “Fundamental Concepts of Public Health” course, taught during HSPH’s week-long orientation. This three-session course