Achieving broad access to health services (a target within the sustainable development goals) requires reaching rural populations. Mobile healthcare units (MHUs) visit remote sites to offer health services to these populations. However, limited exposure, health literacy, and trust can lead to...

Patients requiring kidney transplant may have proxy donors---individuals who wish to donate a kidney to the patient, but cannot due to medical incompatibility. Kidney exchange programs allow patients to swap proxy donors, so that all patients who swap get a compatible donor. Patients' utilities...

Existing compartmental-logistics models in epidemics control are limited in terms of optimizing the allocation of vaccines and treatment resources under a risk-averse objective. In this paper, we present a data-driven, mean-risk, multi-stage, stochastic epidemics-vaccination-logistics model that...

We develop an optimization model and corresponding algorithm for the management of a demand-side platform (DSP), whereby the DSP acquires valuable impressions for its advertiser clients in a real-time bidding environment. We propose a highly flexible model for the DSP to maximize its profit...

Problem definition: Treating many blood-related diseases requires transplantation of genetically compatible hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) extracted from the bone marrow (BM) of live donors or the umbilical cord blood (CB) of babies. To facilitate the search for HSCs, institutions known as BM...

Problem definition:We consider a clinic with strategic patients who choose between making an appointment, incurring an indirect wait cost, and walking in, bearing an inconvenience cost and a risk of being rejected. Patients are of two types,differentiated through their indirect waiting cost. We...