Operations research tools are ideally suited to providing solutions and insights for the many problems health policy-maker's face. Indeed, a growing body of literature on health policy analysis, based on operations research methods, has emerged to address the problems mentioned above and several others. The research in this field is often multi-disciplinary, being conducted by teams that include not only operations researchers but also clinicians, economists and policy analysts. The research is also often very applied, focusing on a specific question driven by a decision-maker and many times yielding a tool to assist in future decisions.

Considerations for Developing Applied Health Policy Models: The Example of HIV Treatment Expansion in Resource-Limited Settings.- Cost-effectiveness Analysis Using Registry and Administrative Data.- Public Health Modeling at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.- OR in Public Health: A Little Help Can Go a Long Way.- Review of Operations Research Tools and Techniques Used for Influenza Pandemic Planning.- Analytical Long-Term Care Capacity Planning.- Managing Community-based Care for Chronic Diseases: The Quantitative Approach.- Project Management Approach to Implement Clinical Pathways: An Example for Thyroidectomy.- EMS Planning and Management.- Impact of In-patient Reimbursement Systems on Hospital Performance: The Austrian Case-based Payment Strategy.- Assessing Prevention for Positives: Cost-Utility Assessment of Behavioral Interventions for Reducing HIV Transmission.- Modeling the Impact of New HIV Prevention Techniques in Sub-Saharan Africa.- REACH: A Practical HIV Resource Allocation Tool for Decision Makers.- Active Vaccine and Drug Surveillance Towards a 100 Million Member System.- Application of Operations Research to Funding Decisions for Treatments with Rare Disease.- Modeling Risk Sharing Agreements and Patient Access Schemes.- Evaluating Health Care Policy Decisions: Canadian Blood Services in Atlantic Canada.- Improving the Efficiency of Cost-effective Analysis to Inform Policy Decisions in the Real World: Lessons from the Pharmacoeconomics Research Unit at Cancer Care Ontario.