Disease control as an optimization problem

1 code implementation • 14 Sep 2020 • Miguel Navascues, Costantino Budroni, Yelena Guryanova

In the context of epidemiology, policies for disease control are often devised through a mixture of intuition and brute-force, whereby the set of logically conceivable policies is narrowed down to a small family described by a few parameters, following which linearization or grid search is used to identify the optimal policy within the set.

Epidemiology