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CDC wins
INFORMS
Edelman Award
T
he U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC),
which collaborated with Kid
Risk, Inc. to use analytics
and operations research to combat the remaining pockets of polio around the world,
won the 2014 Franz Edelman Award for
Achievement in Operations Research and
the Management Sciences.
Following a series of judged presentations, the award was presented at the
Edelman Awards Gala held in conjunction with the INFORMS Conference on
Analytics & O.R. in Boston. INFORMS is
the premier organization for advanced analytics professionals.
Dr. Bruce Aylward, World Health Organization, assistant director-general of Polio,
Emergencies and Country Collaboration,
said, “This work has been fundamental to
so much of what’s happened in the polio
eradication program over the last few years,
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and it has helped to support many of our
decisions over the last decade and to bring
the world much, much closer to one where
future generations will never know the terror of this disease.”
“Through collaborations with Kid Risk,
Inc. and other partners, CDC is helping to
identify the best strategies to further polio
eradication and achieve the endgame,”
added Dr. Mark Pallansch, director of the
Division of Viral Diseases in the National
Center for Immunization and Respiratory
Diseases at CDC.
The Franz Edelman competition attests to the contributions of analy F