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Film screening of Ava DuVernay’s “13th”

Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

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....

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...

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...

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