#  Jacob Jameson Wins Two Teaching Awards 

 





June 04, 2024

 

 

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 The Global Health Education and Learning Incubator (GHELI) congratulates PhD student [Jacob Jameson](https://jacobjameson.com/) for winning a Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Class Day Awards Ceremony. Jameson is a health policy doctoral student and 2024 Educational Innovation Scholar at the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS). He is mentored by GHELI and CHDS faculty director [Sue J. Goldie](/people/sue-j-goldie-md-mph).

 The Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching is awarded to outstanding teaching fellows, course coaches, and course assistants based on nominations from the student body. Jameson was a teaching fellow in three Kennedy courses this year: *Resources, Incentives, and Choices I: Markets and Market Failures*, *Game Theory and Strategic Decisions,* and *Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics* (taught by CHDS faculty [Soroush Saghafian](https://scholar.harvard.edu/saghafian/home)).

 Separately, Jameson was also awarded the Distinction in Student Teaching award—this award is based solely on Teaching Fellow evaluations (in contrast to the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching, which is based on student nominations).

 Jameson has long held an interest in and talent for teaching. Earlier this year, Jameson [visited the GHELI pop-up studio](/news/educational-innovation-scholar-visits-gheli-pop-studio) to practice teaching and communicating about queuing theory, the mathematical study of waiting lines. Jameson is working with GHELI to develop a learning module on queuing theory and how it could be used to optimize important systems in healthcare.

 In the meantime, Jameson will continue teaching at HKS this summer as the instructor for *Introduction to Economics* at the [Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/educational-programs/undergraduate-opportunities/ppia-junior-summer-institute#program-faqs)—a program aimed at diversifying the pipeline of undergraduate students interested in applying to graduate programs in public policy and international affairs.

 Congratulations Jacob!



 

 

 



 

 

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