Case—Dealing with the Bug in the Classrooms: Planning for a Pandemic

INFORMS Transactions on Education

Ruben A. Proano¹ 

[1] Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623

关键词: pandemic influenza;    production control;    management science;    preparedness modeling;    forecasting;    work continuity;   

DOI  :  10.1287/ited.2016.0156cs

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: INFORMS

【 摘 要 】

In 2009, public and private organizations were forced to consider how the circulation of a new and potentially lethal infectious disease, the H1N1 flu virus, would affect their day-to-day activities. The virus started circulating in the spring of 2009 and in a matter of months it had already spread all over the world. Similarly, to what happened in the deadly 1918 Spanish influenza, it especially affected young adults, pregnant women, and people with weak immune systems. Universities, colleges, and school districts were among the organizations that had to design and implement response and mitigation plans that would not only protect their students, but that would avoid any disruption to the academic calendar while considering limited available resources. The following two-part case study describes some of the challenges faced by Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), a private university in upstate New York, in dealing with H1N1, and gives students the opportunity to apply quantitative analysis to help ...

【 授权许可】

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