Healthcare systems throughout the world are under pressure to widen access, improve
efficiency and quality of care, and reduce inequity. Achieving these conflicting goals requires …

A new generation of healthcare operations management (HOM) scholars is studying timely
healthcare topics (eg, organization design, design of delivery, and organ transplantation) …

Immunization is widely recognized as one of the most successful and cost-effective health
interventions, preventing two to three million deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases …

This study reviewed research papers on healthcare operations management from reputed
operations management and service management journals from 2000. The literature review …

Funding for humanitarian operations in the global health sector is highly variable and
unpredictable. We study the problem of managing inventory in the presence of funding …

Vaccination is an effective way to prevent an epidemic. It results in immunity for the
vaccinated individuals, but it also reduces the infection pressure for unvaccinated people …

Problem definition: Increasing costs of healthcare highlight the importance of effective
disease prevention. However, decision models for allocating preventive care are lacking …

There has been a significant increase in the scale and scope of humanitarian efforts over the
last decade. Humanitarian operations need to be—rapid, impactful, sustained, and efficient …

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) has published papers of
importance for poverty alleviation. Yet rich opportunities for impactful research remain as yet …

This paper seeks an efficient way to screen a population of patients at risk for hepatocellular
carcinoma when (1) each patient's disease evolves stochastically and (2) there are limited …