Jacob Jameson
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Teaching

I began my career teaching seventh and eighth grade mathematics in New Haven through Teach For America. Since then, I have taught students at nearly every stage of training, from undergraduates to doctoral students, physicians, and practicing researchers. My teaching spans economics, game theory, decision science, and machine learning, with students from both technical and nontechnical backgrounds.

I care deeply about helping students see themselves as capable of quantitative work. I build abstract concepts from concrete examples, scaffold assignments so students can recognize their progress, and connect coursework to real decisions and professional practice. I want students to leave with both the confidence to work through challenging ideas and the habits to produce clear, reproducible analysis.

Harvard Center for Health Decision Science

Portrait of Jacob Jameson
June 2026

Jameson Wins Teaching Award Again

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Jacob Jameson holding his teaching award
June 2024

Jameson Wins Student Teaching Awards

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Teaching awards

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching
Harvard Kennedy School·2024 · 2026
Distinction in Student Teaching
Harvard Kennedy School·2024 · 2025 · 2026
Educational Innovation Scholar
Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard·2024

Leadership

Short Course Co-Chair
Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting·2026–2027
Chair, Teaching Interest Group
Society for Medical Decision Making·2026–present
Organizing Team, Teaching Statistics in the Age of Agentic AI
Harvard Kennedy School Workshop·2026

Instructor

Economics for Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School, PPIA Junior Summer Institute·2024 · 2025 · 2026instructor
Math Camp for Incoming PhD Students
Harvard Kennedy School·2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026instructor
Data, Quantitative Methods, and Applications in Health Services Research
UChicago · Center for Translational Science·2021 · 2022 · 2023co-instructor
Coding Lab for Public Policy
UChicago · Harris School of Public Policy·2021instructor
7th/8th Grade Mathematics
Teach For America · Amistad Academy, New Haven CT·2018 · 2019 · 2020teacher

Teaching fellow

Decision Science for Public Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health·2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026
Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics
Harvard Kennedy School·2023 · 2024 · 2025
Resources, Incentives, and Choices I: Markets and Market Failures
Harvard Kennedy School·2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025
Game Theory and Strategic Decisions
Harvard Kennedy School·2023 · 2024 · 2026
Data and Programming for Policymakers
Harvard Kennedy School·2023
Machine Learning for Public Policy
UChicago · Computer Science·2022
Mathematics for Data Analysis and Computer Science
UChicago · Computer Science·2022
Introductory Finance
UChicago · Booth School of Business·2020 · 2021 · 2022
Data Analysis in R and Python
UChicago · Booth School of Business·2022
Introduction to Health Services Research
UChicago · Center for Translational Science·2021

Workshops

Build Your Own RA (Research Agent): Introduction to Agentic Coding and Custom Research Workflows
Society for Medical Decision Making·2026instructor
An Introduction to Reproducible Programming and Project Management
Society for Medical Decision Making · Annual Meeting·2024instructor
Transparent Programming: Important Habits for Reproducibility and Research Integrity
Society for Medical Decision Making · Annual Meeting·2023instructor

Open teaching materials

R
Introduction to R·9-module course for policy students new to programming view
git
Introduction to Git & GitHub·Version control for researchers and students view
ML
API 222 Section Materials·Machine learning section materials view

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