Improving Mass Dispensing and Vaccination Clinic Operations: Publications

2009 Public Health Preparedness Summit Presentation

Aaby, Kay, Rachel Abbey, and Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Preparing for Emergencies and Every Day: Planning with Computer Models, San Diego, California, February 18, 2009.

About the project

• Improving Mass Vaccination Clinic Operations, Kay Aaby, Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Carol Jordan, Mark Treadwell, and Kathy Wood, Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Sciences Simulation, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 23-27, 2005
• Simulating Mass Vaccination Clinic Operations, Kay Aaby, Daniel T. Cook, Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Carol Jordan, and Kathy Wood, working paper, March 15, 2005.
• Using Operations Research to Improve Mass Dispensing and Vaccination Clinic Planning, Kay Aaby, Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Carol Jordan, Mark Treadwell, and Kathy Wood, Interfaces, Volume 36, Number 6, pages 569-579, 2006.
• Embracing Computer Modeling to Address Pandemic Influenza in the 21st Century, Kay Aaby, Rachel Abbey, Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Mark Treadwell, Carol Jordan, and Kathy Wood, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, Volume 12, Number 4, pages 365-372, July-August 2006.
• Disseminating Emergency Preparedness Planning Models as Automatically Generated Custom Spreadsheets, Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Interfaces, Volume 38, Number 4, pages 263-270, 2008.

About the medication distribution problem

• Herrmann, J.W., Sara Lu, and Kristen Schalliol, Routing and Scheduling for Medication Distribution Plans, Technical Report 2008-26, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.
• Herrmann, Jeffrey W., Sara Lu, and Kristen Schalliol, A Routing and Scheduling Approach for Planning Medication Distribution, Proceedings of the 2009 Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Miami, Florida, May 30-June 3, 2009.
• Herrmann, Jeffrey W., Sara Lu, and Kristen Schalliol, Delivery Volume Improvement for Planning Medication Distribution, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Antonio, Texas, October 11-14, 2009.
• Montjoy, Adam, Stephanie Brown, and Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Solving the Inventory Slack Routing Problem for Medication Distribution Planning, Technical Report TR_2009-13, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, September, 2009.
• Montjoy, Adam, and Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search for the Inventory Slack Routing Problem, Proceedings of the 2010 Industrial Engineering Research Conference, A. Johnson and J. Miller, eds., Cancun, Mexico, June, 2010.
• Yan, Zijie, Adam Montjoy, and Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Variants of the Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search for the Inventory Slack Routing Problem Technical Report TR_2011-10, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, September, 2011.
• Montjoy, Adam, and Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Optimizing Urgent Material Delivery by Maximizing Inventory Slack, Technical Report TR_2012-6, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, June, 2012.

About the queueing network approximations

• Comparing Queueing Software for Mass Dispensing and Vaccination Clinics, Mark Treadwell, Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Technical Report 2005-113, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
• Queueing Models and Assessment Tools for Improving Mass Dispensing and Vaccination Clinic Planning, Mark Treadwell, M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.
• Constructing Queueing Network Approximations for Mass Dispensing and Vaccination Clinics, Ali Pilehvar and Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Technical Report 2006-17, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.
• Queueing Network Approximations for Mass Dispensing and Vaccination Clinics, Ali Pilehvar, M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.
• Queueing Network Approximations for Mass Dispensing and Vaccination Clinics, Ali Pilehvar and Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Technical Report 2008-2, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.

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