CHDS Core Faculty
Center for Health Decision Science
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
MPH, 2011
École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, Paris, France
PhD, 2021, Health Policy - Decision Science
Harvard University
Gliddon HD, Ward Z, Heinsbroek E, Croxford S, Edmundson C, Hope VD, Simmons R, Mitchell H, Hickman M, Vickerman P, Stone J.
Int J Drug Policy. 2024 Jan 12. 104324. PMID: 38218700
Kenney EL, Lee MM, Barrett JL, Ward ZJ, Long MW, Cradock AL, Williams DR, Gortmaker SL.
Pediatrics. 2024 Jan 01. 153(2). PMID: 38258385
Nguyen LBL, Lemoine M, Ndow G, Ward ZJ, Hallet TB, D'Alessandro U, Thursz M, Nayagam S, Shimakawa Y.
Lancet Glob Health. 2024 Jan. 12(1):e66-e78. PMID: 38097300
Raffoul A, Ward ZJ, Santoso M, Kavanaugh JR, Austin SB.
PLoS One. 2023. 18(12):e0295337. PMID: 38150418
Dupuis R, Block JP, Barrett JL, Long MW, Petimar J, Ward ZJ, Kenney EL, Musicus AA, Cannuscio CC, Williams DR, Bleich SN, Gortmaker SL.
Am J Prev Med. 2024 Jan. 66(1):128-137. PMID: 37586572
Lee MM, Barrett JL, Kenney EL, Gouck J, Whetstone LM, McCulloch SM, Cradock AL, Long MW, Ward ZJ, Rohrer B, Williams DR, Gortmaker SL.
Am J Prev Med. 2024 Jan. 66(1):94-103. PMID: 37553037
Zhao L, Park S, Ward ZJ, Cradock AL, Gortmaker SL, Blanck HM.
Prev Chronic Dis. 2023 Jul 13. 20:E61. PMID: 37441752
Poole MK, Gortmaker SL, Barrett JL, McCulloch SM, Rimm EB, Emmons KM, Ward ZJ, Kenney EL.
Obesity (Silver Spring). 2023 08. 31(8):2110-2118. PMID: 37395361
Ward ZJ, Atun R, King G, Sequeira Dmello B, Goldie SJ.
Nat Med. 2023 05. 29(5):1253-1261. PMID: 37081226
Ward ZJ, Atun R, King G, Sequeira Dmello B, Goldie SJ.
Nat Med. 2023 05. 29(5):1262-1272. PMID: 37081227
Social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube collectively derived nearly $11 billion in advertising revenue from U.S.-based users younger than 18 in 2022, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.
A novel statistical method developed by Zachary Ward, assistant professor of health decision science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and colleagues gets around biases in self-reporting.
Zachary Ward, research scientist in the Center for Health Decision Science, explains his recent pair of studies predicting trends in global maternal mortality and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to curb maternal deaths.
About half of the adult U.S. population will have obesity and about a quarter will have severe obesity by 2030.
Nearly half of all childhood cancers are not being diagnosed globally.
