Two Resource Allocation Problems in Global Health

Event Date: 17 February 2017

Speaker: Professor Alec Morton, Management Science Department, Strathclyde Business School

Location: Strathclyde Business School, Cathedral Wing, CW507a

Time: 3.30pm

Abstract:  This talk will focus on a resource allocation of healthcare resources in low and middle income countries.  The talk is stimulated by consultancy work for a major donor of development aid.  We will discuss two problems – one of balancing “vertical” investments in disease programmes (such purchasing bednets for malaria) with investments which strengthen the health system as a whole (eg improving systems for vital registration); the other of deciding the correct balance of funding between a donor and a recipient.  We will model these problems with quadratic and bilevel programmes respectively and discuss the structural behaviour of such models.

Published: 24 January 2017