We analyze a resource allocation problem faced by Medical Surplus Recovery Organizations (MSROs) that recover medical surplus products to fulfill the needs of under-served healthcare facilities in developing countries. Due to the uncertain, uncontrollable supply and limited information about...

Problem definition: Faced with the challenge of serving beneficiaries with heterogeneous needs and under budget constrains, a number of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have come up with an innovative solution: providing partially complete products or services to beneficiaries. We seek to...

Problem definition: We investigate the effectiveness of different Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) implementation models for pharmaceuticals. In particular, we study two viable and prevalent models: (i) Source Reduction (SR), where a form of fee upon sale is imposed on producers, and (ii)...