Candidates from a range of disciplines, including those with expertise in health policy, economics, and the social sciences, are considered.

The goal of this two-year fellowship is to advance research that evaluates immediate and long-term public health benefits and costs of climate change mitigation and adaptation actions, and to translate that science into practical insights for communities, policymakers, and practitioners.

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Society for Benefit Cost Analysis HM Treasury has launched a formal review of the Green Book discount rate used in social cost-benefit analysis and is seeking input from the academic community. SBCA members and others working in…

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Solomon Hsiang's Profile | Stanford Profiles Solomon Hsiang is part of Stanford Profiles, official site for faculty, postdocs, students and staff information (Expertise, Bio, Research, Publications, and more). The site facilitates research and…

From 2023-24, Hsiang served as the first Chief Environmental Economist at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he oversaw the inaugural year of the United States natural capital accounting program.

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Hsiang was also Lead Author of the first Economics chapter in the Fifth National Climate Assessment (2023).

Hsiang is also currently co-editing the Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change and co-leads the Aerial History Project.

Previously, Hsiang was faculty at the University of California, Berkeley at the Goldman School of Public Policy (2013-24).

Hsiang is currently a Professor of Global Environmental Policy at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, a co-founder and co-director at the Climate Impact Lab, co-founder of mosaiks.org, Research Associate at the NBER, and a National Geographic Explorer.

Solomon Hsiang directs the Global Policy Laboratory at Stanford University, where his team integrates social science, natural science, and data science to better understand how we can effectively manage global resources.

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Amitabh Chandra Professor Chandra is the Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Henry and Allison McCance Family…

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Chandra serves on the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Health Advisors and has testified to the United States Senate and the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

He research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Science.

His research has been supported by the National Institute Of Aging, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Professor Chandra's research focuses on innovation, pricing, and capital allocation in the biopharmaceutical industry, value in health care, medical malpractice, racial disparities in healthcare, and discovering new methods for treating Alzheimer's.

At HBS, he is also the is the Faculty Chair of the joint MS/MBA program in the life-sciences, the Faculty Chair of the executive education program in the life-sciences, the chair of the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab committee, and a board member for the Blavatnik Fellows program.

Professor Chandra is the Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

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He currently serves as a co-editor for the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE) and Environmental & Resource Economics (ERE), and is an officer of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

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He is a fellow of The Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, and a fellow of The Teton Group.

Christian Vossler is the J. Fred Holly Chair of Excellence in the Department of Economics, Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee.

He is the director of the Master's program in Economics, and the director of the UT Experimental Economics Laboratory.