Edward Kaplan, PhD
William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research and Professor of Public HealthCards
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Professor of Engineering
Professor of Public Health
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Professor of Engineering
Professor of Public Health
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William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research and Professor of Public Health
Professor of Engineering; Professor of Public HealthBiography
Edward H. Kaplan obtained his BA from McGill University with First Class Honors in Economic and Urban Geography, and proceeded to graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he completed three masters’ degrees (in Operations Research, City Planning, and Mathematics) in addition to his doctorate in Urban Studies. He currently serves as the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences 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 Applied Sciences. An elected member of both the National Academy of Engineering (2003) and the Institute of Medicine (2004), Kaplan is an expert in operations research, mathematical modeling and statistics who studies problems in public policy and management. His recent research has focused on counterterror topics such as the tactical prevention of suicide bombings, bioterror preparedness, and response logistics in the event of a smallpox or anthrax attack. His work on smallpox was awarded the 2003 Koopman Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Military Applications Society, while his models evaluating suicide-bomber-detector schemes received the same award in 2005. Kaplan serves on the National Academy of Sciences panel on basic research to improve intelligence analysis, and co-directs the Daniel Rose Technion-Yale Initiative in Homeland Security and Counter Terror Operations Research. Kaplan has also conducted award-winning research that evaluates the effectiveness of HIV prevention programs while developing new mathematical models for the study of HIV transmission, prevention, and resource allocation. His empirical and modeling research demonstrating the effectiveness of New Haven’s needle exchange program remains among the most creative and important examples of HIV prevention program evaluation to date. Honors for his HIV-related research include induction into the Omega Rho operations research honor society in 2000, the 2002 INFORMS President’s Award recognizing work that advances the welfare of society, the 1997 Ira Hiscock Award of the Connecticut Public Health Association, the 1994 Lanchester Prize for the best publications in the operations research literature, the 1992 Franz Edelman Award for management science achievement, the 1991 State of Connecticut Health Department’s AIDS Leadership Award, the 2009 Charles C. Shepard Science Award from the Centers for Disease Control, and the INFORMS Philip Morse Lectureship for 2010-11. Kaplan served twice as the Lady Davis Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem—in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine in 1994, and in the Department of Statistics in 1997 -- and is also an elected member of the Board of Governors of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. For all of his contributions to the operations research profession, Kaplan was designated an INFORMS Fellow in November 2005.
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Health Policy & Management
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- Health Policy & Management
- Public Health Modeling
- Yale School of Public Health
Education & Training
- PhD
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984)
- SM
- Massachusetts, Mathematics (1982)
- SM
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research (1979)
- SM
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, City Planning (1979)
- BA
- McGill University, Urban/Economic Geography (1977)
Research
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ORCID
0000-0002-8722-7667
Research at a Glance
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Research Interests
Robert Heimer, PhD
Albert Ko, MD
A. David Paltiel, MBA, PhD
Howard Forman, MD, MBA, FACR
Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, MPH
Publications
2022
Predicting daily COVID-19 case rates from SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations across a diversity of wastewater catchments
Zulli A, Pan A, Bart S, Crawford FW, Kaplan EH, Cartter M, Ko AI, Sanchez M, Brown C, Cozens D, Brackney DE, Peccia J. Predicting daily COVID-19 case rates from SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations across a diversity of wastewater catchments. FEMS Microbes 2022, 2: xtab022. PMID: 35128418, PMCID: PMC8807199, DOI: 10.1093/femsmc/xtab022.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
2020
OM Forum—COVID-19 Scratch Models to Support Local Decisions
Kaplan E. OM Forum—COVID-19 Scratch Models to Support Local Decisions. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 2020, 22: 645-655. DOI: 10.1287/msom.2020.0891.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsLogistics of Aggressive Community Screening for Coronavirus 2019.
Kaplan EH, Forman HP. Logistics of Aggressive Community Screening for Coronavirus 2019. JAMA Health Forum 2020, 1: e200565. PMID: 36218486, DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2020.0565.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricPerspectives on Policy Modeling: 2018 MSOM Fellow Award
Kaplan E. Perspectives on Policy Modeling: 2018 MSOM Fellow Award. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 2020 DOI: 10.1287/msom.2019.0849.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitations
2018
Approximating the First-Come, First-Served Stochastic Matching Model with Ohm’s Law
Fazel-Zarandi M, Kaplan E. Approximating the First-Come, First-Served Stochastic Matching Model with Ohm’s Law. Operations Research 2018, 66: 1423-1432. DOI: 10.1287/opre.2018.1737.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConcepts
2017
Decomposing Pythagoras
Kaplan E, Rich C. Decomposing Pythagoras. Journal Of Quantitative Analysis In Sports 2017, 13: 141-149. DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2017-0055.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricDecision Making for Bioterror Preparedness: Examples from Smallpox Vaccination Policy
Kaplan E, Wein L. Decision Making for Bioterror Preparedness: Examples from Smallpox Vaccination Policy. 2017, 469-484. DOI: 10.1017/9781316676714.020.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAdventures in Policy Modeling!
Kaplan E. Adventures in Policy Modeling! 2008 Winter Simulation Conference 2017, 2-2. DOI: 10.1109/wsc.2016.7822073.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2016
Differential Terror Queue Games
Wrzaczek S, Kaplan E, Caulkins J, Seidl A, Feichtinger G. Differential Terror Queue Games. Dynamic Games And Applications 2016, 7: 578-593. DOI: 10.1007/s13235-016-0195-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsOptimal control of a terror queue
Seidl A, Kaplan E, Caulkins J, Wrzaczek S, Feichtinger G. Optimal control of a terror queue. European Journal Of Operational Research 2016, 248: 246-256. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.07.010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
honor Elected to three year term as President-Elect (2015), President (2016) and Past-President (2017)
International AwardINFORMSDetails11/01/2014United Stateshonor October 2009: Philip McCord Morse Lectureship
International AwardInstitute for Operations Research and the Management SciencesDetails10/11/2009United Stateshonor Charles C. Shepard Science Award, Assessment and Epidemiology
National AwardCenters for Disease Control and preventionDetails06/29/2009United Statesactivity Counterterrorism
ResearchDetails01/01/2007 - PresentIsraelAbstract/SynopsisThis research constructs mathematical and statistical models to evaluate counterterrorism measures. Detailed analysis has been completed thus far regarding the tactical prevention of suicide bombings in Israel, the difference between allocating resources to counter strategic threats (such as those posed by terrorists) versus natural threats governed by the laws of chance (such as those posed by earthquakes, floods, new infectious diseases, etc.), confronting entrenched insurgents, estimating the number of undetected terror plots in progress via the terror queue model, staffing models for covert counterterrorism agencies, the detection and emergency response to bioterror attacks involving smallpox or anthrax. and an overview of intelligence operations research with applications to counterterrorism.
honor Koopman Prize
International AwardMilitary Applications Section, Institute for Operations Research and the Management SciencesDetails11/01/2005United States
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