📬 This month's CHDS newsletter is now available! Explore recent decision science publications, featured resources and upcoming seminars, news within the field, and more. 👉 Read the newsletter: shorturl.at/ugM1e 👉 Subscribe to receive next month's newsletter: shorturl.at/ibewz

#ICYMI The recording of “The Ethics of Priority Setting in Global Health” is now available. Professor Ole F. Norheim joins Dr. Louise Ivers, to discuss fairness, efficiency & ethics in advancing universal health coverage. 📽️ Watch: globalhealth.harvard.edu/recording-et...

Register for one of our upcoming virtual Information Sessions! Meet with directors, members of the @hsph.harvard.edu Admissions team, and former PCE students. 🔹 10/21 at 8:00 PM ET Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔹 11/1 at 9 AM ET Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

CHDS' Stéphane Verguet and colleagues recently published research in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (@whobulletin.bsky.social) on the inequalities associated with diarrhea, pneumonia, and measles deaths for children under five years old in sub-Saharan Africa. 📖: shorturl.at/WOIoF

This pathbreaking OECD report will substantially improve the evidence base for life-saving policy decisions, according to CHDS’s Lisa Robinson. 👉 Read more: shorturl.at/M2rpL

Terrific to see this published! Great work, and definitely worth reading.

Our Career Development Committee is pleased to announce our Fall 2025 Industry Job Market Panel. Learn more here: smdm.org/meeting/cdc-... #SMDM

More than 200 volunteers from the Harvard Chan School community participated in our third annual Day of Service, which included activities like serving meals at a shelter, cleaning up Boston Public Garden, and making warm blankets for children in need.

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CHDS affiliate Karen Smith co-authored a cost-effectiveness analysis of intensive blood pressure targets in settings with blood pressure measurement error, with colleagues including CHDS' Thomas Gaziano, Nicolas Menzies, and Ankur Pandya (@ankurfactorial.bsky.social). 📝Read more: shorturl.at/4Kekr

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It’s that time of year again: The information session for Harvard’s PhD in Health Policy will be held a month from today, on Tuesday, October 28. Register here (recording will be available for those who can’t make it): harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join this free, online panel moderated by Shardul Agrawala, Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division in the OECD - OCDE Environment Directorate. Oct 1 | Online | 9-10am ET | Free Register at buff.ly/nD3RAmj

Interested in developing quantitative and analytical skills for conducting high-quality clinical research? Join us for a virtual information session to learn about the Program in Clinical Effectiveness and the MPH in Clinical Effectiveness. Register at our website hsph.harvard.edu/fellowship-s...

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A new paper led by Harvard Health Policy PhD student Ye Shen finds that, in the current policy environment, more than six in ten kids will have been enrolled in Medicaid for some period of time by their 18th birthday; the program is absolutley critical for children. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New article by CHDS doctoral student Ye Shen and colleagues

CHDS’ Zach Ward discussed both the progress and challenges in meeting the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in reducing mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCD) in a recent invited commentary in The Lancet. 👉 More about the commentary: shorturl.at/Hk8Vs

CHDS' Myriam Hunink recently published new, open access teaching material culminating from an immersion residency with the CHDS Media Hub. These educational resources were created with support from the Alan Colowick Innovation Fund. 📖 About the residency: shorturl.at/BFwM8

🎉 We're gearing up for another exciting year of the Program in Clinical Effectiveness (PCE)! Our directors and administrative team are hard at work planning and preparing to make next year's program impactful & engaging! Stay tuned for updates as we prepare for the 2026 PCE at @hsph.harvard.edu!

In his forthcoming book, Insight-Driven Problem Solving: Analytics Science to Improve the World, CHDS faculty Soroush Saghafian explores how analytics can drive meaningful improvements. 👉 About the book: shorturl.at/NKNNj

Congratulations to CHDS's @jacobjameson.com and all the finalists!

Join CHDS’s @lisa-a-robinson.bsky.social and other panelists at the upcoming @oecd-env.bsky.social Green Talk on October 1, 15:00-16:00 CEST, "Evaluating the economic benefits of environmental policies that save lives." tinyurl.com/396vk7hr

The abstract submission deadline for the 2025 SBCA European Conference has been extended until this Friday, September 19, 2025. Submit your abstract at buff.ly/FMhyTac

Watch the SMDM 2025 Presidential Address by Victoria Shaffer! Follow SMDM's YouTube channel to be notified of new content! 🔔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeA3... #SMDM

📬 The September issue of the CHDS newsletter is now available! Explore recent decision science publications, featured resources, as well as news within the field. ➡️Read the newsletter: shorturl.at/vgyW1 ➡️Subscribe: shorturl.at/ibewz

CHDS's Soroush Saghafian is excited to announce that, after 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 of hard work, his book is finally ready and set to be released next month. Preorder and receive a 20% discount (use the code SAGHAFI25 at checkout) 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒗. 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔: www.cambridge.org/9781009379120 𝑨𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒐𝒏: a.co/d/63IA21h

We are now accepting proposals for the 2026 Annual Conference scheduled for March 12-13, 2026, at the George Washington University Student Center in Washington, D.C. This is your opportunity to showcase your research, engage with peers and contribute to the evolving field of benefit-cost analysis.

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 the UN Sustainable Development Goal for mortality reduction. 📖About the publication: shorturl.at/nXG7Z

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Introduction to Medical Decision Analysis (Decision-Analytic Modeling), the fourth of our SMDM Core Courses, 30 September. Register today! smdm.org/meeting/smdm... #MedicalDecisionMaking #SMDM

Did you hear? Free registration for current student members! That's right...the cost is $0! Animal Welfare and BCA | Oct 16-17, 2025 | 10am - 1:30 pm ET | Live on Zoom buff.ly/g5D4lmG

The first recording from the 2025 Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor is now available! Follow SMDM's YouTube channel to be notified of new content! 🔔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxvv... #SMDM

Save the Date! #HarvardClimateActionWeek takes place September 15-21. On Sept 17, ‪@harvardenvhealth.bsky.social and ‪@harvardcchange.bsky.social‬ will host a live webinar on the benefits and costs of AI on climate and health. Visit: https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/hcaw/#HarvardClimateActionWeekfor details.

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Dean Andrea Baccarelli (@deanbaccarelli.bsky.social) welcomed new students at last week’s orientation, sharing that Harvard Chan School “is the perfect place for you to explore how your skills and interests can best serve your goals and help you make the most impact in public health.”

This is a great opportunity to learn from one of the best! Our core faculty member @gaurabbasu.bsky.social will lead this workshop to help boost climate and health research. Applications due Friday 9/12.

New students at Harvard Chan School were welcomed by deans, faculty, staff, and returning students at Fall Orientation last week. The three-day event brought together 449 new students from 66 countries and territories to connect and learn how to make the most of their experience at the School.

🎉CHDS is thrilled to welcome incoming students Kirsten Gallant and Isabella Impalli to the Decision Science track of the Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy! 📖 Read our news story: shorturl.at/U9xvh

Welcome New Students!

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. 📖 About the publication: shorturl.at/sZAJO

I'm so excited to see our campus buzzing with energy once again! 🥳 This year, we welcome students from 48 states & 39 countries—each bringing unique perspectives and passions to our collective mission of improving #publichealth. Let’s make this an inspiring and impactful year! 💪

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Center Members @joeallenjoe.bsky.social and Kari Nadeau have released an important commentary in Nature on soil remediation practices after urban wildfires in LA, with policy recommendations to reduce lead exposure risk, especially for children. Press release and commentary: hsph.me/LAleadcommentary

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We were honored to welcome back one of our former PCE Co-Directors and co-founders, Dr. Lee Goldman, for a special visit @hsph.harvard.edu. It was a fantastic opportunity to bring together past and present Co-Directors, celebrating the program’s legacy and future direction.

CHDS faculty Jagpreet Chhatwal and co-author Rachael Fleurence published a commentary that sheds light on meditation as an important but underutilized avenue for reducing healthcare costs and enhancing mental health outcomes. ➡️ About the article: shorturl.at/CF0iM

CHDS faculty Ankur Pandya (@ankurfactorial.bsky.social‬) recently presented "Quantifying the Value of Representation in Clinical Trials" at an Office of Educational Programs (‪@hsph.harvard.edu‬) ‘Hot Topics’ seminar. 👉 About the presentation: shorturl.at/Xsjxj

Introduction to Medical Decision Analysis (Decision-Analytic Modeling), the fourth of our SMDM Core Courses, 30 September. Register today! smdm.org/meeting/smdm... #MedicalDecisionMaking #SMDM

Thank you to Valerie E. Stone, MD for her engaging and insightful talk @hsph.harvard.edu on “Racial Differences in Penicillin Allergy De-Labeling in a Multi-Center US Primary Cohort.” Our Program in Clinical Effectiveness students had a wonderful time learning from your expertise.