CHDS Seminar: Citizen Willingness to Pay for a Health Risk Reduction
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Susan Chilton from Newcastle University. Chilton’s presentation reports on the results of experimentally testing the external validity of the veil of ignorance established in “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.
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Susan Chilton
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CHDS Seminar: Setting Optimal Test Thresholds: Consumer Choice Model and Experimental Test
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Jytte Nielsen from Newcastle University exploring preferences regarding the trade-off between sensitivity and specificity in screening and diagnostic tests. For a given test, increasing sensitivity, detecting more true positives, comes at the expense of decreasing specificity, giving more false positives. Nielsen will present a consumer optimization model of how individuals’ make this trade-off and test their results using an incentivized experiment.
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Jytte Nielsen
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Film screening of Ava DuVernay’s “13th”
Bring your lunch and join us for a screening of the film 13th, followed by open-ended discussion. Watch the trailer here.
About the film:
Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay’s examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.
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WGH Film Screening of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”
WGH and event co-sponsors are hosting a community screening of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” to honor the political and humanitarian power of grassroots women-led movements in the face of war and the gendered impacts of war. This gripping documentary follows the courageous Liberian women who organized a nonviolent resistance to end a brutal civil war—ultimately paving the way for peace and the election of Africa’s first female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
This event is co-sponsored by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Harvard Chan Muslim Student Association and the Africa Student Health Forum. All are welcome!
Dinner and refreshments will be provided!
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Organizers
Harvard International Office: Summer Travel Planning
Harvard students considering international travel for the summer are encouraged to attend an online meeting with Elizabeth Capuano of the Harvard International Office. Please register for the Zoom meeting using the registration link.
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Elizabeth Capuano, assistant director
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Longwood Festival
Join faculty, students, staff and researchers from across the Longwood Schools on the Harvard Medical School Quad Lawn for a day of games, free food, and music. Whether you want to join in for a game of soccer, be the first team to solve a puzzle, or relax by enjoying nachos, churros, and popcorn while playing lawn games. There will be something for individuals of all backgrounds to enjoy while meeting other Longwood-based students from across graduate school!
RSVP here: https://engage.sph.harvard.edu/event/11255968
Open to ALL Harvard students, staff and faculty (we encourage everyone to join our activities or cheer your colleagues on!)
Food will include vegetarian options. Activities will run from 5 – 7 PM and include team soccer, team tug-of-war, team trivia and a team jig-saw-puzzle racing!
Sign up to join an activity at the follow survey: https://forms.office.com/r/Gc9ah8Bw6r We would also appreciate volunteers sign up at through this spreadsheet: Longwood Festival Volunteer Sign Up!
Longwood Festival
Join faculty, students, staff and researchers from across the Longwood Schools on the Harvard Medical School Quad Lawn for a day of games, free food, and music. Whether you want to join in for a game of soccer, be the first team to solve a puzzle, or relax by enjoying nachos, churros, and popcorn while playing lawn games. There will be something for individuals of all backgrounds to enjoy while meeting other Longwood-based students from across graduate school!
RSVP here: https://engage.sph.harvard.edu/event/11255968
Open to ALL Harvard students, staff and faculty (we encourage everyone to join our activities or cheer your colleagues on!)
Food will include vegetarian options. Activities will run from 5 – 7 PM and include team soccer, team tug-of-war, team trivia and a team jig-saw-puzzle racing!
Sign up to join an activity at the follow survey: https://forms.office.com/r/Gc9ah8Bw6r We would also appreciate volunteers sign up at through this spreadsheet: Longwood Festival Volunteer Sign Up!
Before leaving the office of Governor due to term limits earlier this year, Roy Cooper expanded North Carolina’s Medicaid program, enrolling more than 650,000 residents, many in rural areas. He also worked with hospitals to create a medical debt relief program aimed at helping nearly 2 million residents get out from under the weight of $4 billion in medical bills that they couldn’t afford to pay. In this conversation, Gov. Cooper will explain the value he sees in Medicaid and the potential impact of federal funding cuts to public health. He will also discuss his experience building coalitions across party lines to address healthcare needs in his state.
Speaker
Roy Cooper
Moderator
About The Studio
CHDS Seminar: Answering Causal Questions Through Decision Analytical Models
Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a Seminar with Jeremy Labrecque and Maurice Korf from Erasmus MC for a virtual seminar showing that many decision analytical models are inherently causal in nature. They explicitly present decision analytical models as causal models, highlighting that, the more a decision model deviates from its underlying causal structure, the more likely it is to result in a sub-optimal decision with all the consequences this entails.
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Jeremy Labrecque
Maurice Korf
Organizers
The landmark Belmont Report articulated key principles to protect humans in scientific studies. Nearly 50 years after the report’s publication, this distinguished panel of bioethics experts will examine the impacts of those guidelines, particularly on communities of color. What are the successes? Where are the shortcomings? And what are the actionable solutions to create a more inclusive, just, and trustworthy healthcare system for everyone?
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Moderator
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel
