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News Release 10-164
Sizing Up Stockpiles of Children's Vaccines
Practical model could transform vaccine stockpile decisions
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Vaccination is the most important public health strategy for protection from serious illnesses such as whooping cough and polio. But this strategy relies on having an ample stockpile. Researchers have found that how these stockpiles are built and deployed has different implications for public health.
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Sheldon Jacobson, an engineer specializing in operations research, is devising ways to make better decisions about important pediatric vaccines.
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Rubén Proaño of the Rochester Institute of Technology is interested in how operations research may benefit public policy and international development. His work enlarges on his research as a graduate student under Jacobson.
Credit: Rubén A. Proaño, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Rochester Institute of Technology
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