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CHDS affiliates were honored with the Best Paper Award from the journal Risk Analysis at the 2023 Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting. The paper, “The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer

Members of the CHDS community contributed to the 45th North American Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) Meeting, held in Philadelphia in October, 2023. The theme was “Innovation

CHDS faculty Eve Wittenberg co-chaired an international task force developing recommendations for the inclusion of caregiver and family member impacts in the economic evaluation of healthcare interventions;

The COVID-19 pandemic stimulated debate about the extent to which societies are willing to make trade-offs between health and economic activity. At a recent CHDS seminar, Emily Lancsar

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently substantially revised its guidance on evaluating major regulations and government investments, which will have profound effects on how agencies estimate

CHDS faculty Jagpreet Chhatwal evaluated the cost and benefits of President Biden’s national hepatitis C elimination plan. Using a decision-analytic model, Chhatwal’s team simulated the hepatitis C epidemic

CHDS faculty Zachary Ward and colleagues developed a novel method for correcting self-reporting bias of body-mass index (BMI) to estimate state-specific prevalence of severe obesity

CHDS faculty Thomas Gaziano, in collaboration with Harvard Chan researchers and colleagues in South Africa, received additional funding to continue and expand work in the HAALSA

CHDS faculty Davene Wright has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Population Medicine (DPM) at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute,

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University awarded CHDS faculty Stéphane Verguet a seed funding grant to explore pathways to low-carbon, high-quality