CHDS News Stories - Recent
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Michael R. Eber successfully defended his dissertation, Essays on Consumer Preferences in Health, as part of the Decision Science Track of the PhD Program in Health Policy at Harvard University.
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Lily Hsieh, doctoral student in Health Policy concentrating in Decision Science, successfully defended her thesis, The Synergy of Real-World Evidence, Transportability, and Decision-Analytic Modelling in the Evaluation of Disease Screening Programs.
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While randomized trials (RCTs) are required for approval of new medications, these generally exclude pregnant participants. In a CHDS seminar, Alyssa Bilinski discussed a decision-analytic framework to estimate health impacts of avoiding RCTs during pregnancy, from both ex post and a priori perspectives.
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CHDS Faculty Jane Kim and Nicole Campos received awards for the 2025 cycle of the Lemann Brazil Research Fund, which supports research projects on current issues facing Brazil.
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CHDS Faculty Ankur Pandya, Uwe Siebert, and Myriam Hunink joined colleagues in recommending directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in Decision-Analytic Modeling in a recent Medical Decision Making commentary.
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| CHDS Publications - Selected Recent
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CHDS seminars feature national and international decision science experts. The seminars are virtual via Zoom and require pre-registration using the link provided below.
Speakers share their own perspectives; they do not speak for the Center for Health Decision Science or for Harvard University.
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Citizen Willingness to Pay for a Health Risk Reduction
May 15, 1:00 pm ET
This presentation builds on Citizen Preferences and BCA: A Model of Willingness-to-Pay behind a Veil of Ignorance, which established a theoretical model that integrates a veil of ignorance into valuation to account for both distributional concerns and public good values. Here, we move into the field, reporting the results of experimentally testing the external validity of the veil of ignorance and a stated preference survey.
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This modeling study, published in JAMA Oncology, found that childhood cancer survivors face an earlier onset of aging-related diseases, even without prior radiation exposure. The results highlight the need to begin cancer and cardiovascular disease prevention much earlier in this group than in the general population.
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