Several HSI-funded projects that began last year are reporting promising and intriguing early work.

On September 17, HSI and the MIT Sloan Healthcare Club invited students to a virtual lunchtime presentation from Sloan faculty to learn about HSI, the Healthcare Certificate.

Rigorous Testing of Big Ideas: The Case of Healthcare Hotspotting. Researcher: Joseph Doyle

State reimbursement pools have significantly improved the effectiveness of Affordable Care Act ( ACA ). There were seven states that successfully experimented with these pools in 2019.

The resurgence of tuberculosis is behavioral, not medical. Nudges can fix it – Researchers: Erez Yoeli, David Rand, and Jon Rathauser

MIT Sloan HSI researchers are at the forefront of addressing many facets of the COVID-19 Pandemic, bringing their specific expertise to bear on the many healthcare challenges.

HSI held its second call for research proposals to MIT Sloan faculty in March 2020, and will fund five projects this year. Funds will support students, data, travel and other needs.

Armed with advanced AI, machine learning, and sophisticated models, Dimitris Bertsimas and colleagues are designing safe and effective chemotherapy regimens, starting with gastric cancer.

Kate Kellogg shows that implementing new processes and workflows requires finding those with leverage and giving them tools and tactics to change daily interactions and institutionalize the changes.

Through a landmark operations research study in Mozambique, Jónas Jónasson and his colleagues have recently investigated ways to speed up not only lab procedures, but also the supply chain itself.