Soundbites: Practice and Policy
Selected initiatives, publications and resources that reside at the nexus of research, policy and practice are featured below.

EPIC
EPIC, a multi-year initiative that launched with primary data collection in 6 countries, works to improve the availability and quality of immunization cost and financing information for low-income countries.

Disease Control Priorities
Disease Control Priorities (DCP3) provides economic evaluation of policy choices affecting the access, uptake, and quality of interventions and delivery platforms for low-and middle-income countries.

PROSPR
PROSPR, an NCI-funded consortium, evaluates the screening process for breast, colorectal and cervical cancers across 7 diverse health care institutions throughout the United States.
In an episode of PolicyCast, CHDS faculty Soroush Saghafian and colleague Amitabh Chandra discuss the important role of data analysis and smart policy design in fixing the healthcare sector. Listen to the PolicyCast episode and learn more about the impact of COVID-19 and the trend in hospital closures.
Model-based decision analysis informs the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) revision of cervical cancer screening guidelines, integrating new evidence on standalone human papillomavirus (HPV) testing, recently approved by the FDA for women ages 25 years and older. Learn about the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
