Purpose: Despite HIV being reported as one of the major global health issues, availability and accessibility of HIV services and supplies remain limited, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The effective and efficient operation of HIV supply chains is critical to tackle this...

Boarding patients and the extra workload they introduce are a major concern in emergency departments. Not in the least because they confront the physicians with a challenging task: prioritizing between boarding patients and patients currently under treatment in the emergency department. The main...

Purpose This paper aims to provide a discussion on the interface and interactions between data, analytical techniques and impactful research in humanitarian health supply chains. New techniques for data capturing, processing and analytics, such as big data, blockchain technology and artificial...

We propose a new policy architecture to apply deep reinforcement learning (DRL) with a continuous action representation. This contrasts most current DRL implementations that make use of a discrete action space. The latter are not scalable to large problems. To obtain feasible discrete actions,...