This spring, the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator (GHELI) was happy to welcome PhD student Jacob Jameson into our pop-up studio to explore the Incubator’s unique multimedia approach to teaching and learning. Jameson is a 2024 Educational Innovation Scholar at the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) mentored by GHELI and CHDS faculty director Sue J. Goldie.
Educational Innovation Scholars are supported by the Alan Colowick Innovation Fund, which supports work to broaden the scope and reach of educational efforts through the development of novel instructional models, short-form multimedia content, and case-based learning experiences. GHELI partners with Educational Innovation Scholars to create educational multimedia projects with the goal of improving scholars’ teaching and communication skills while also creating open-access materials.
Jameson’s work as a scholar will focus on developing a learning module related to queuing theory, the mathematical study of waiting lines. The resources will highlight queuing applications in health decision science modeling and introduce fundamental concepts and theorems. The goal of this module is for learners to gain literacy in the concept and begin to think about how queuing theory can be used to optimize important systems in healthcare, and also more broadly.
Queuing theory is highly relevant to global health, but it can be quite tough to teach. Jameson has been using the pop-up studio to storyboard his modules and practice teaching and communicating about queuing theory. The flexible pop-up studio, which can be put together with two iPads in an office space, allows educators to simulate a lesson in an informal environment.
Jameson has a longstanding interest in teaching, pedagogy, and education. He has served as a teaching fellow for multiple courses, teaches the Public Policy/Health Policy PhD Math Camp, and taught a short course at the 2023 Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) North American Meeting. Prior to starting the PhD program, Jameson was a middle school mathematics teacher in New Haven, CT.
Since joining the PhD program in Health Policy with a concentration in Decision Science, Jameson has been working on a variety of projects at the intersection of causal inference, operations research, and machine learning. He has presented his work on emergency department test batching at both the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting and the 2023 INFORMS Healthcare Conference. This work, with CHDS faculty Soroush Saghafian, was supported by Jameson’s 2023 Howard Raiffa Fund award. Jameson’s most recent work seeks to use reinforcement learning techniques to determine personalized treatment regimens for patients with resected stage III metastatic melanoma.
Learn more about Jameson: Interview with Educational Innovation Scholar Jacob Jameson
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