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Margaret L. Brandeau

Margaret L. Brandeau

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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46
Citations
9401
World Ranking
3614
National Ranking
1736

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Overview

Margaret L. Brandeau is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on epidemiology, infectious diseases, modeling and simulation, public health, environmental and occupational health, and economics and econometrics.

The main topics of their work include:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
  • Health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life
  • Vaccine coverage and hesitancy
  • Opioid use disorder treatment
  • HIV, drug use, sexual risk
  • Substance abuse treatment and outcomes

Among their recent papers are:

  • Cost-effectiveness of Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Effectiveness of Policies for Addressing the US Opioid Epidemic: A Model-Based Analysis from the Stanford-Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis, 2021, The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
  • Effectiveness of interventions to reduce COVID-19 transmission in a large urban jail: a model-based analysis, 2021, BMJ Open
  • Optimal allocation of limited vaccine to control an infectious disease: Simple analytical conditions, 2021, Mathematical Biosciences
  • Estimation of COVID-19 basic reproduction ratio in a large urban jail in the United States, 2020, Annals of Epidemiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Margaret L. Brandeau include:

  • Dan Yamin
  • Isabelle J. Rao
  • Matan Yechezkel
  • Erez Shmueli
  • Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert

They have published multiple articles in journals such as:

  • Medical Decision Making (7 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (5 publications)
  • Mathematical Biosciences (3 publications)
  • Health Care Management Science (3 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (2 publications)

Margaret L. Brandeau was named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • An overview of representative problems in location research

    Margaret L. Brandeau;Samuel S. Chiu

  • Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier Than Conventional Alternatives?: A Systematic Review

    Crystal Smith-Spangler;Margaret L Brandeau;Grace E Hunter;J Clay Bavinger

  • Operations research and health care : a handbook of methods and applications

    Margaret L Brandeau;Francois Sainfort;William P Pierskalla

  • The Cost-Effectiveness of Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention in the United States in Men Who Have Sex With Men

    Jessie L Juusola;Margaret L Brandeau;Douglas K Owens;Eran Bendavid

  • HIV Transmission and the Cost-Effectiveness of Methadone Maintenance

    Gregory S. Zaric;Paul G. Barnett;Margaret L. Brandeau

  • Modeling Health Benefits and Harms of Public Policy Responses to the US Opioid Epidemic.

    Allison L. Pitt;Keith Humphreys;Margaret L. Brandeau

  • The Cost-Effectiveness and Population Outcomes of Expanded HIV Screening and Antiretroviral Treatment in the United States

    Elisa F. Long;Margaret L. Brandeau;Douglas K. Owens

  • Optimal Commonality in Component Design

    Ulrich W. Thonemann;Margaret L. Brandeau

  • Cost-effectiveness of screening and vaccinating Asian and Pacific Islander adults for hepatitis B.

    David W. Hutton;Daniel Tan;Samuel K. So;Margaret L. Brandeau

  • The cost-effectiveness of buprenorphine maintenance therapy for opiate addiction in the United States.

    Paul G. Barnett;Gregory S. Zaric;Margaret L. Brandeau

  • Resource allocation for control of infectious diseases in multiple independent populations: beyond cost-effectiveness analysis.

    Margaret L. Brandeau;Gregory S. Zaric;Anke Richter

  • Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness of Expanding Harm Reduction and Antiretroviral Therapy in a Mixed HIV Epidemic: A Modeling Analysis for Ukraine

    Sabina S. Alistar;Douglas K. Owens;Douglas K. Owens;Margaret L. Brandeau

  • Contact tracing to control infectious disease: when enough is enough.

    Benjamin Armbruster;Margaret L. Brandeau

  • Resource allocation for epidemic control over short time horizons.

    Gregory S. Zaric;Margaret L. Brandeau

  • Cost-effectiveness of Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder.

    Michael Fairley;Keith Humphreys;Keith Humphreys;Vilija R Joyce;Mark Bounthavong

  • Improving the efficiency of the operating room environment with an optimization and machine learning model

    Michael Fairley;David Scheinker;David Scheinker;Margaret L Brandeau

  • Dynamic resource allocation for epidemic control in multiple populations.

    Gregory S Zaric;Margaret L Brandeau

  • Methadone Maintenance and HIV Prevention: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

    Gregory S. Zaric;Margaret L. Brandeau;Paul G. Barnett

  • Modeling the Logistics of Response to Anthrax Bioterrorism

    Gregory S. Zaric;Dena M. Bravata;Jon Erik Cleophas Holty;Kathryn M. McDonald

  • Note. Optimal Storage Assignment Policies for Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems with Stochastic Demands

    Ulrich W. Thonemann;Margaret L. Brandeau

  • Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of strategies to expand antiretroviral therapy in St. Petersburg, Russia.

    Elisa F Long;Margaret L Brandeau;Cristina M Galvin;Tatyana Vinichenko

Frequent Co-Authors

Sanjay Basu
Sanjay Basu Stanford University
David B. Lobell
David B. Lobell Stanford University
Mark Holodniy
Mark Holodniy Stanford University
Gail Geller
Gail Geller Johns Hopkins University
Marshall Burke
Marshall Burke Stanford University
Ruth R. Faden
Ruth R. Faden Johns Hopkins University

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