CAREER: Measuring the Impact of Public Health Supply Chain Coordination Structures on the Effectiveness of Disaster Preparedness and Response

职业：衡量公共卫生供应链协调结构对备灾和响应有效性的影响

• 批准号: 1653293
• 负责人: Jessica Heier Stamm
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1653293&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Measuring; Impact; Public; Health

This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program research project explores public health supply chain coordination through an iterative process of stakeholder engagement and mathematical modeling and analysis in order to support more effective disaster preparedness and response. The functioning of the US health care and public health sector is essential to the health and economic security of the country. Federal, state, and local government entities, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, and the public are engaged in preparing for and responding to disasters that threaten health directly or indirectly. However, preparedness and response activities can be improved by creating better supply chain coordination among stakeholders. This research will identify and evaluate supply chain coordination structures for the disaster context; and focus on methods to improve mutual awareness of public health and industrial engineering professionals' expertise and opportunities to effect change via interdisciplinary engagement. The results of this research have the potential to translate into more effective use of limited public health preparedness funds and reduced loss of life and livelihood resulting from public health disasters. Modeling efforts will engage practitioners concurrent with broad dissemination of research findings. The integrated education activities will engage students from middle school through doctoral levels and will prepare future engineers to address challenges in public health disaster preparedness and response. The research is centered on three interrelated sets of activities: surveys and interviews with public health disaster response supply chain stakeholders leading to insights into collaborative behavior; mathematical models that draw upon these insights to describe public health supply chain coordination structures; and assessment of research results. In contrast to classical applications, supply chain coordination will be modeled in a cooperative game theoretic framework, in which the models must accommodate multiple objectives, and the benefits need not be super-additive with coalition size. Structural properties in coordination will be characterized and compared, to include consideration of the conditions under which different structures are desirable and fair cost and benefit allocations exist. The computational efficiency of solution approaches will be assessed. Models will be developed, tested, and revised iteratively with input from stakeholders to ensure relevance and support translation from research to practice.

该学院早期职业发展计划研究项目通过利益相关者参与以及数学建模和分析的迭代过程，探索公共卫生供应链的协调，以支持更有效的备灾和应对。美国医疗保健和公共卫生部门的运作对该国的健康和经济安全至关重要。联邦、州和地方政府实体、非政府组织、私营部门和公众参与准备和应对直接或间接威胁健康的灾害。然而，可以通过在利益攸关方之间建立更好的供应链协调来改进准备和反应活动。这项研究将确定和评估灾害背景下的供应链协调结构；并侧重于提高对公共卫生和工业工程专业人员的专业知识和通过跨学科参与实施变革的机会的相互认识的方法。这项研究的结果有可能转化为更有效地利用有限的公共卫生准备资金，减少公共卫生灾难造成的生命和生计损失。建模工作将吸引从业者参与，同时广泛传播研究结果。综合教育活动将吸引从中学生到博士水平的学生，并将培养未来的工程师，以应对公共卫生灾难准备和应对方面的挑战。这项研究集中在三组相互关联的活动上：对公共卫生灾难应对供应链利益相关者的调查和访谈，导致对协作行为的洞察；利用这些洞察来描述公共卫生供应链协调结构的数学模型；以及研究结果的评估。与经典应用不同的是，供应链协调将在合作博弈论框架中建模，其中模型必须适应多个目标，并且收益不需要与联盟规模超加性。将对协调中的结构属性进行表征和比较，以包括考虑在哪些条件下不同的结构是可取的，以及存在公平的成本和收益分配。将评估求解方法的计算效率。将根据利益相关者的意见反复开发、测试和修订模型，以确保相关性并支持从研究到实践的转化。