News and Recent Publications
Professor Emeritus Howard Raiffa Receives 2008 Shelling Award.
The Schelling Award is presented annually to an individual whose
remarkable intellectual work has had a transformative impact on public
policy. The Frank P. Ramsey Professor of
Managerial Economics, Emeritus, Professor Raiffa is recognized for his
lifetime of work in the field of decision analysis. He was the first
Director of the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and a founding
faculty member of the modern-day Kennedy School.
Program in Health Decision Science faculty, students and researchers presented more than 10 abstracts at the 29th Annual Meeting for the Society for Medical Decision Making in Pittsburgh, PA, October 20-24, 2007. Among those, Research Assitant Jesse Ortendahl, presented the top rated poster abstract and Assistant Professor Jane J Kim, presented one of the top 6 oral presentations. To see all abstracts from the meeting, click here.
Program in Health Decision Science faculty, students and researchers presented more than 10 abstracts at the 29th Annual Meeting for the Society for Medical Decision Making in Pittsburgh, PA, October 20-24, 2007. Among those, Research Assitant Jesse Ortendahl, presented the top rated poster abstract and Assistant Professor Jane J Kim, presented one of the top 6 oral presentations. To see all abstracts from the meeting, click here.
Core Faculty Members Lisa Prosser and James Hammitt recently published article is now available from Pharmacoeconomics:
Prosser LA, Hammitt JK, Keren R. Measuring Health Preferences for Use in Cost-Utility and Cost-Benefit Analyses of Interventions in Children: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations. Pharmacoeconomics. 2007;25(9):713-726.
The Lancet announced announced their Paper of the Year, in the January 13 issue. From more than 700,000 indexed papers on PubMed, two papers by Program in Health Decision Science researchers were among the 23 nominated final favorites; Goldie SJ, et al. Cost-effectiveness of HIV treatment in resource-poor settings--the case of Cote d'Ivoire. N Engl J Med 2006;355:1141-53, and Gaziano TA, Opie LH, Weinstein MC. Cardiovascular disease prevention with multidrug regimen in the developing world. Lancet 2006;368:679-686.
Dr. Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine, gave a provocative presentation on the importance of the field of Decision Science and the challenges within the field, at a symposium honoring Dr. Sue Goldie, Director of the Program in Health Decision Science, on December 20, 2006. For more information, click: www.hsph.harvard.edu/now/20070119/goldie.html
The latest issue of HPV Today, featuring an interview with Dr. Sue Goldie is now available. You can download the PDF file by clicking on the link below.
Download HPV Today: www.hpvtoday.com/_english/_889downloads/HPVToday_09.pdf
Prosser LA, Hammitt JK, Keren R. Measuring Health Preferences for Use in Cost-Utility and Cost-Benefit Analyses of Interventions in Children: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations. Pharmacoeconomics. 2007;25(9):713-726.
The Lancet announced announced their Paper of the Year, in the January 13 issue. From more than 700,000 indexed papers on PubMed, two papers by Program in Health Decision Science researchers were among the 23 nominated final favorites; Goldie SJ, et al. Cost-effectiveness of HIV treatment in resource-poor settings--the case of Cote d'Ivoire. N Engl J Med 2006;355:1141-53, and Gaziano TA, Opie LH, Weinstein MC. Cardiovascular disease prevention with multidrug regimen in the developing world. Lancet 2006;368:679-686.
Dr. Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine, gave a provocative presentation on the importance of the field of Decision Science and the challenges within the field, at a symposium honoring Dr. Sue Goldie, Director of the Program in Health Decision Science, on December 20, 2006. For more information, click: www.hsph.harvard.edu/now/20070119/goldie.html
The latest issue of HPV Today, featuring an interview with Dr. Sue Goldie is now available. You can download the PDF file by clicking on the link below.
Download HPV Today: www.hpvtoday.com/_english/_889downloads/HPVToday_09.pdf
A recent study led by collaborator, Dr. Bruce Schackman, calculated the average lifetime cost of HIV treatment in the US as $618,000. Read the full story at www.poz.com/articles/761_10806.shtml
Myriam Hunink was awarded the Saenger Distinguished Service Award at the 28th Annual Society for Medical Decision Making meeting, October 14-18th, 2006, Boston, MA.
Core faculty member, Lisa Prosser, interviewed on WBUR radio about risk perception in the context of the flu vaccine. Click here to listen
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