Public Health Preparedness Modeling

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released a guide entitled Mass Medical Care with Scarce Resources: the Essentials. It is an abridged and updated version of the original guide, which was published in 2007.
The guide includes material on influenza pandemic preparedness in order to apply the principles, and this section has links [...]

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With respect to the vaccine for the novel H1N1 influenza, recent studies have shown that children 9 and under will need two shots, while children 10 and over will need only one shot.
We have updated the Vaccine Allocation Model to reflect this new data. In Version 3.0, one can set the number of doses [...]

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CDC’s Division of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) is looking for state and local SNS planners to help test the beta version of a new release of TourSolver. Toursolver can be used to find optimal truck routes for delivering medication to PODs. Anyone interested in being a beta tester should contact Rick Pietz [...]

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The INFORMS podcast site now has a podcast by Sheldon Jacobson that discusses the role of operations research to improve the definition of vaccines and the delivery of medication.

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