Margaret Louise Brandeau is an American

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and engineer whose research applies

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to decision-making in

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. The main focus of her work is on the development of applied mathematical and economic models to support health policy decisions. She is the Coleman F. Fung Professor in the

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, and also holds a courtesy affiliation with the

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. With

Edward H. Kaplan Edward H. Kaplan is the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research at the Yale School of Management, Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, and Professor of Engineering in the Yale School of Engineering and ...

, Brandeau is the editor of the book ''Modeling the AIDS Epidemic: Planning, Policy, and Prediction'' (Raven Press, 1994). She has also studied strategies for responding to the

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, and the question of whether eating

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has health benefits.

Education

Brandeau earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1977 from the

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(MIT). After continuing at MIT for a master's degree in

in 1978, she completed her Ph.D. in engineering economic systems in 1985 at

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Recognition

In 2008, Brandeau was the winner of the

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(INFORMS) President's Award "for her pioneering research on public health policy models, including those for HIV and drug abuse prevention and treatment, and for translating her results into improved U.S. and international health policies". She became a

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of INFORMS in 2009. In 2015 she won the INFORMS WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS, and the Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award. She was named an honorary professor of the

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in Peru in 2016.

References

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