Operational Research Society News

The OR Society has just revamped its Researchers’ Database, the online directory for OR professionals who actively engage in research. Search by name, university, research interests, other keywords to expand your network!

In the last decade, France has provided €24.5 million to support 22 OR projects and 35 'research missions' to help improve the work of fighting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria across francophone countries, many of which are in the developing world. Now there is a new call for the next phase of funding.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has convened its second forum on using operational research in its effort to eliminate malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) by 2030.

A recent study has found that medical staff in delivery rooms in the US were prone to “suboptimal heuristic” decision-making when attending to births.

A team drawn from the University of Exeter and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has completed a study which is already helping improve services to patients requiring dialysis in the south of England.