Determining whether and how to control environmental hazards raises many challenging questions related to understanding the risks and the benefits and costs of controls. In this new
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CHDS at INFORMS 2024
Doctoral students Jacob Jameson, Skye Yoden, and Yuli (Lily) Hsieh presented at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting held in Seattle in October. Hosted by the Institute
Read more...Lancet Commission Global Health 2050 Report
CHDS faculty Sue J. Goldie and Stéphane Verguet served on The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, which recently released Global Health 2050: The Path to Halving Premature Death by
Read more...Upcoming Distributional Analysis Workshop
Understanding who gains and who loses from policy interventions is essential to sound decision-making. However, assessing the distributional equity of policy impacts is very challenging.
Read more...Saghafian’s PIAS-Lab Receives DOD Award
CHDS’ Soroush Saghafian, his lab, the Public Impact Analytics Science Lab (PIAS-Lab), and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute recently received a grant from the Department of Defense (DOD)
Read more...Risk Factors Underlying Disparities in TB Outcomes
In a study recently published in Lancet Public Health, CHDS faculty Nicolas Menzies and first author Mathilda Regan, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Population,
Read more...Beate Jahn 2024 President-Elect of SMDM
Beate Jahn, PhD, long term visitor and CHDS collaborator, was named 2024 President-elect of the Society for Medical Decision Making in the recent election for 2024 – 2025 Officers and Trustees.
Read more...The Economic Value of Avoidable Mortality
CHDS’ Stéphane Verguet and colleagues recently published in Nature Medicine that reducing preventable deaths from major noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries around the world
Read more...Potential Benefit of New TB Treatment Regimens
In a recent study, CHDS’ Nicolas Menzies and colleagues used mathematical modelling to quantify the potential health impact and cost-savings for a hypothetical pan-tuberculosis regimen
Read more...Evaluating Strategies to Accelerate Cervical Cancer Elimination
CHDS researchers Allison Portnoy, Jane Kim, and Emily Burger evaluated vaccination and screening strategies to accelerate elimination of cervical cancer in Norway. In order to accelerate progress towards
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