[HTML][HTML] Mobile health interventions for improving maternal and child health outcomes in South Africa: a systematic review

E Mbunge, MN Sibiya - Global Health Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Maternal and child health (MCH) remains a significant public health concern
globally despite previous efforts made to improve MCH services. Initiatives such as …

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Index-Based Treatment Allocation

N Boehmer, Y Nair, S Shah, L Janson, A Taneja… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
When resources are scarce, an allocation policy is needed to decide who receives a
resource. This problem occurs, for instance, when allocating scarce medical resources and …

Balancing Act: Prioritization Strategies for LLM-Designed Restless Bandit Rewards

S Verma, N Boehmer, L Kong, M Tambe - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.12112, 2024 - arxiv.org
LLMs are increasingly used to design reward functions based on human preferences in
Reinforcement Learning (RL). We focus on LLM-designed rewards for Restless Multi-Armed …

Preliminary Study of the Impact of AI-Based Interventions on Health and Behavioral Outcomes in Maternal Health Programs

A Dasgupta, N Boehmer, N Madhiwalla… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Automated voice calls are an effective method of delivering maternal and child health
information to mothers in underserved communities. One method to fight dwindling …

TOWARDS FAIRNESS CONSTRAINED RESTLESS MULTI-ARMED BANDITS: A CASE STUDY OF MATERNAL AND CHILD CARE DOMAIN

G Singh, M Tambe, A Taneja - The Second Tiny Papers Track at ICLR … - openreview.net
Restless multi-armed bandits (RMABs) are widely used for resource allocation in dynamic
environments, but they typically do not consider fairness implications. This paper introduces …