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Teaching PackWeb Portal, Teaching Resource 2024Teaching Pack: Amua Modeling Platform
This teaching pack, curated by the Center for Health Decision Science, provides students with a …
This teaching pack, curated by the Center for Health Decision Science, provides students with a hands-on opportunity to gain experience to use the open-access decision science software, Amua. These resources are intended for students with a basic understanding of decision science. Materials include Amua introductory videos, basic decision modeling tutorials for decision trees and Markov models, and case-based tutorials based on analyses in published literature. About Amua Amua, the Swahili word meaning “decide”/“solve”, is an…
Mathematical Models | Decision Analysis | Graduate | Doctoral | Professional -
Teaching PackWeb Portal, Teaching Resource 2023Teaching Pack: Heuristics with Joe Pliskin
This teaching pack, curated by the Center for Health Decision Science, features videos introducing heuristics …
This teaching pack, curated by the Center for Health Decision Science, features videos introducing heuristics used in decision making. While these “mental shortcuts” can be useful in some circumstances, they can lead to more errors than deliberate, rational thinking. An awareness of these heuristics is useful to decision makers. This series of videos on heuristics was developed by Professor Joe Pliskin during his residency with the CHDS Media Hub led by Jake Waxman. They reflect…
Decision Theory | Decision Psychology | Probability/Bayes | Preferences/Values | Chronic Disease/Risk | Clinical Care | Business/Industry | Economics/Finance | Health/Medicine | High School | College | Graduate | Doctoral | Professional | Critical Thinking/Analysis | Decision Making/Leadership | Quantitative Literacy -
Teaching PackWeb Portal, Teaching Resource 2023Teaching Pack: Building Multimedia Learning Experiences
This teaching pack is intended to support multimodal teaching and learning and was produced and …
This teaching pack is intended to support multimodal teaching and learning and was produced and curated by the Media Hub at the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in collaboration with the Global Health and Education Learning Incubator (GHELI) at Harvard University. It features a collection of briefs and perspectives containing short summaries and actionable tips, visual tools and multimedia examples, a working paper, and featured…
Culture/Society | Education/Labor | Health/Medicine | Science/Technology | High School | College | Graduate | Doctoral | Professional | Conceptual Mapping | Graphics/Visualization | Instructional Design | Pedagogy | Assessment -
Teaching PackWeb Portal, Teaching Resource 2018Teaching Pack: A Methods Sampler
This teaching pack features a collection of videos by Professor David Cutler, introducing basic concepts in …
This teaching pack features a collection of videos by Professor David Cutler, introducing basic concepts in epidemiology, economics and statistics, to support his undergraduate course, "EMR20: Why is There No Cure for Health Care?" Concept sketches, prototypes, and videos were completed and produced during Cutler's collaborative residency at the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator (GHELI).Videos include: EMR20: What is an Epidemic? (~10 min) EMR20: Dynamics of an Epidemic (~13 min) EMR20: The Economics of Pharmaceuticals, Part 1 (~20 min)…
Infectious Diseases | Social Determinants | Policy/Regulation | Business/Industry | Economics/Finance | Health/Medicine | Global | North America | High School | College | Graduate | Critical Thinking/Analysis | Quantitative Literacy -
Lesson/ModuleWeb Portal, Teaching Resource 2017Policy Communication Toolkit
This Policy Communication Toolkit is a resource to bridge the gap that often lies between …
This Policy Communication Toolkit is a resource to bridge the gap that often lies between research and policy. It consolidates tools, materials, and approaches PRB has developed and refined over 30 years of training researchers to communicate to policy audiences. Through this toolkit, users can build skills to bridge this gap, with the goal of increasing the use of evidence in policy and decisionmaking. Research often has profound implications for policy, but without effective communication…
Social Determinants | Health Systems | Policy/Regulation | Global Governance | Business/Industry | Culture/Society | Government/Law | Health/Medicine | Science/Technology | Global | Graduate | Doctoral | Professional | Graphics/Visualization | Policy Translation | Quantitative Literacy -
Lesson/ModuleWeb Portal, Teaching Resource 2017OR-Library
The OR-Library serves as an educator tool by providing a collection of test data sets …
The OR-Library serves as an educator tool by providing a collection of test data sets for a variety of problems in operations research (OR). They were developed and used by J E Beasley and he has made them available for use by any students and teachers interested in OR subject provided he is acknowledged and identified as their author. J E Beasley completed his PhD in Management Science at Imperial College, London, was a faculty member…
Operations Research | Business/Industry | Graduate | Doctoral | Critical Thinking/Analysis | Quantitative Literacy -
Lesson/ModuleWeb Portal, Teaching Resource 2017Translating Science Into Policy: The Role of Decision Science
This module introduces the basic techniques of “decision science” that are used in policy making. …
This module introduces the basic techniques of “decision science” that are used in policy making. The materials are mainly prescriptive, focusing on how to make good decisions, but also include examples of the systematic ways that people make poor decisions. The module: (1) surveys the meanings of utility; (2) examines decision making in conditions where risk is not an issue; (3) examines decision making in conditions where risk is an issue because the likelihood of…
Decision Psychology | Preferences/Values | Decision Analysis | Infectious Diseases | Policy/Regulation | Government/Law | Health/Medicine | Science/Technology | Global | North America | College | Graduate | Doctoral | Professional | Critical Thinking/Analysis | Decision Making/Leadership | Policy Translation -
Teaching PackWeb Portal, Teaching Resource 2018Teaching Pack: Teaching Prototypes for Decision Analysis
These videos, developed by Professor Myriam Hunink during an immersion residency at the Center for …
These videos, developed by Professor Myriam Hunink during an immersion residency at the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) Media Hub, reflect experiments to augment brick and mortar teaching with multimedia materials that emphasize visualization of basic concepts. The first video introduces decision making under uncertainty, and illustrates the use of probability and odds to quantitatively express uncertainty. The second and third videos introduce probability revision visually and analytically, showing how an initial probability is…
Probability/Bayes | Test Performance | Value of Information | Chronic Disease/Risk | Health Systems | Health/Medicine | North America | Europe | High School | College | Graduate | Doctoral | Critical Thinking/Analysis | Graphics/Visualization | Quantitative Literacy -
Lesson/ModuleWeb Portal, Teaching Resource 2016Scientific Evidence of Factual Causation
This module examines three scientific areas that provide evidence bearing on causation in the “toxic …
This module examines three scientific areas that provide evidence bearing on causation in the “toxic tort” or environmental disease context: epidemiology, toxicology, and genetics. These scientific disciplines are used in civil lawsuits and in regulatory proceedings in which causation or risk is an issue. The module is appropriate for non-scientist law students as well as others interested in learning the science of toxic tort causation, including practicing attorneys, judges, and public policy and public health…
Evidence Synthesis | Risk Analysis | Child/Nutrition | Chronic Disease/Risk | Environmental Health | Policy/Regulation | Climate/Environment | Food/Agriculture | Government/Law | Health/Medicine | Science/Technology | Global | North America | College | Graduate | Doctoral | Professional | Critical Thinking/Analysis | Quantitative Literacy