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Replacing diesel school buses with electric ones may yield up to $247,600 in climate and health benefits per bus, a new Harvard Chan School study says
Herndon, Va. (May 20, 2021) - The international journal Risk Analysis has published a timely special issue for May 2021, "Global Systemic Risk and Resilience for Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19." Featuring 11 papers written for this issue over the past year, the collection represents a sampling of insights and viewpoints from scholars across risk sciences and resilience analytics to guide decision-making and operations related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 11 papers address the breadth of risk sciences represented by the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), including risk perception, risk and re...
Mohammad S. Jalali â the principal investigator for a joint simulation modeling project between Harvard researchers and the Food and Drug Administration â presented his labâs ongoing efforts to accurately model the opioid crisis during a Harvard School of Public Health seminar on Tuesday. Hosted by the Center for Health Decision Science, the event outlined existing research on opioid usage in America, the modelâs development, and tentative results. Health policy professor Joseph S. Pliskin and senior research scientist Lisa A. Robinson served as moderators. Due to agreemen...