# health policy

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## [About the health policy category](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/about-the-health-policy-category/84)

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**Author:** [@f2harrell](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/f2harrell)\
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Health policy research, and data-related issues in health policy

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## [Project 2025 and Biostatisticians](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/project-2025-and-biostatisticians/17969)

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**Author:** [@davidcnorrismd](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/davidcnorrismd)\
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**Last updated:** [July 25, 2024, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/project-2025-and-biostatisticians/17969 "2024-07-25T11:02:24Z")

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Chapter 14 of the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership outlines plans for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In para 2, we read: As a result of HHS’s having lost its way, U.S. life expectancy, instead o…

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## [Imperial College Paper on Interventions to Reduce COVID-19 Population Level Impact](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/imperial-college-paper-on-interventions-to-reduce-covid-19-population-level-impact/3107)

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**Author:** [@MSchwartz](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/MSchwartz)\
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**Last updated:** [March 19, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/imperial-college-paper-on-interventions-to-reduce-covid-19-population-level-impact/3107 "2020-03-19T12:40:43Z")

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Hi All, I was initially thinking about adding this as a comment to the thread on prediction models for COVID-19, but that is focused on prospective predictions for individuals, whereas this paper from Ferguson et al at …

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## [Can biostats defend prohibitive drug regulation without appealing to the same fallacies clinicians invoke to defend classification vs prediction?](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/can-biostats-defend-prohibitive-drug-regulation-without-appealing-to-the-same-fallacies-clinicians-invoke-to-defend-classification-vs-prediction/2813)

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**Author:** [@davidcnorrismd](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/davidcnorrismd)\
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**Last updated:** [December 21, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/can-biostats-defend-prohibitive-drug-regulation-without-appealing-to-the-same-fallacies-clinicians-invoke-to-defend-classification-vs-prediction/2813 "2019-12-21T14:06:13Z")

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I tend to think the most exciting ideas arise where supposedly separate fields intersect. One fruitful intersection is that between ethics and statistics, where a supposed fact-value distinction breaks down. (A classic p…