Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), the epidemic of the 21st century, accounts for 4.6 million deaths globally and for 11% of the global health expenditure. Several different public health, primary preventive, and secondary interventions promise better health outcomes and cost savings. This paper...

Intensive care units are important departments in hospitals that are complicated in that they have both urgent and elective patients with a variety of specialty needs. Their design involves important operations strategy decisions, such as whether there are several specialized units for certain...

We consider contracting issues in the care of patients with chronic conditions within the principal-agent framework. The government, acting as a principal, contracts with several health care providers in an effort to maximise population health minus the cost. We consider the decision of whether...

Introduction: The current COVID-19 pandemic leads to a massive influx of patients to the ICU. Epidemic models focus on the demand for care capacity. Here, we present a model for the number of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients that can be served for a given ICU capacity. The results may give...

Health systems are placing increasing emphasis on improving the design and operation of clinical trials, with the aim of making the health technology adoption process more value-based. We present a model of a value-based two-armed clinical trial in which both the recruitment rate and trial...

We explore the procurement of influenza vaccines by a government whose objective is to minimize the expected social costs (including vaccine, vaccine administration, and influenza treatment costs) when a for-profit vaccine supplier has production yield uncertainty, private information about its...