Adverse events including deaths from illicit drug overdose (specifically Opioids) is a significant issue in North America, especially in the west coast of Canada. In this talk, we present three systematic data driven approaches to decrease such events. First, prevention of drug use and habit formation. Second management of addiction among drug users and third, a reactive and dynamic response to forecasted overdose incidents that uses a predictive model built using near miss events and other variables as signals along with a novel caregiver scheduling mechanism. Theoretical instances of the scheduling problem presents interesting technical challenges on hardness and approximability which we will partially resolve in this talk. We discuss the implementation of these approaches in urban centres in Canada.
Presented by: Mahesh Nagarajan – UBC Sauder School of Business
Friday, April 25 11:00 – 12:00 PM Eastern Time R1210, 701 Tappan Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234