Keynote speakers
Prof. Sally Brailsford
Sally is Professor of Management Science at the University of Southampton. Sally has worked for over 25 years in the area of health O.R. She is Vice-President 1 of EURO and chair of the EURO Working Group on OR Applied to Health Services (ORAHS). She is one of the Editors-in-Chief of the UK OR Society’s new journal Health Systems. She has twice won the UK OR Society's Goodeve Medal, awarded annually for the best paper published in JORS that year: in 2004 for modelling emergency healthcare services in Nottingham, and in 2006 for modelling chlamydia infection.
The keynote title of Sally is: "Modelling human behaviour in healthcare systems: is it possible and why should we do it?"
Prof. Nico Vandaele
The keynote title of Nico is: "The Vaccine Supply Chain Decathlon: the Reconciliation of Technology, Economy and Humanity".
Many rigorous models have been developed to support the design of health care supply chains. Humanitarian supply chains like vaccine supply chains, impose additional challenges on this design process. Embedding these models in a broader stakeholder based framework, will substantially enhance the societal and human impact of the humanitarian supply chain service delivery. Moreover, the acceptance and buy-in of the (re)designed supply chain will be much more evident for all stakeholders involved. These broader base of stakeholders will deliver a balanced set of Key Performance Indicators, against which the new design options or scenarios will be evaluated. These scenarios will be the outcome of an iterative design and modelling process moderated by a group of key stakeholders. Subsequently, a multi-criteria ranking method will reveal a short-list of championing scenarios. Finally, a group decision process will decide on the final supply chain design choice. The main purpose of this talk is to present a general framework for humanitarian supply chain design which constitutes a stakeholder's framework encapsulating a rigorous modelling approach. We build upon our own experience within a vaccine supply chain. The approach is applicable to many health care system design problems."
