Resilience and Sustainability in PPE Supply Chain:

• Gathering data on the supply chain and use of PPE before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Modeling and optimizing effective policies to build a robust PPE distribution
• This work is a collaboration with NYULH

Resource Allocation and Patient Distribution:

• Utilizing optimization and data analytics to find the best resources allocation (clinical staff, ventilators, PPE, etc.) among different hospitals. (The peak of the pandemic arrives/affects different locations differently).
• Using data analytics to understand how COVID and non-COVID patients can be redistributed to treat both safely. This will also prepare the hospitals to re-open and treat non-COVID patients again.
• This work is a collaboration with Johns Hopkins Hospital

Investigators:

Kimia Ghobadi, John C. Malone Professor of Civil and Systems Engineering

Cassandra Thiel,  Assistant Professor at New York University in the School of Medicine