Call for Papers: Special Issue on Managing Pandemics: A POM Perspective
Extended Abstracts due August 31, 2020
Invited Formal Submissions due January 31, 2021
Guest Editors
Dr. Edward G. Anderson, University of Texas, TX, USA, edanderson@utexas.edu
Dr. Sushil Gupta, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA, guptask@fiu.edu
Dr. Nitin Joglekar, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, joglekar@bu.edu
Dr. Martin K. Starr, Rollins College, martin.starr@gmail.com
Background
The 21st century has seen a number of pandemics, including SARS, MERS, H1N1, and most recently COVID-19. The last is on an unprecedented scale and may ultimately infect upwards of a billion people and disrupt the lives of the majority of the world’s population. Importantly, COVID-19 is revealing deep interconnections between pandemics and production, operations, and supply chain management in unforeseen ways. Examples of negative outcomes include, among many others, the difficulty of ramping medical product manufacturing capacity up, quick response to the crisis, an insufficient installed base of ventilators and related medical equipment that may keep critically ill patients from being treated, hoarding of foodstuffs triggering bullwhip effects, the critical path of vaccination development slowing the timing of vaccination deployment, as well as the fragility of supply chains contributing to overall economic chaos being faced by the world.
We are beginning to see new production and operations choices that are being developed as remedies including novel design of ventilators and localized production of protective gear. A variety of regulatory and de-regulatory responses are being brought to bear, not only to arrest the spread of the pandemic, but also to create healthcare capacity and to ramp up production and distribution of critical inventory. Digital information and connectivity are creating novel models of workflow. Tele-healthcare technologies, systems and procedures are becoming best practice in mitigating physical contacts between people. Collection and dissemination of information, and data analytics, are being used for policy design and for production and supply chain coordination.
This pandemic may beget a new normal, for social and business scenarios, regarding the manner in which supply and demand will be matched. Understanding the role of how Production & Operations Management can affect the development and remediation of pandemics is a critical, but understudied, area of research, both from descriptive and prescriptive perspectives This special issue aims to begin to fill this gap with research of the highest creativity, relevance, and rigor in order to build a foundation for future work on this new, but critical, problem facing the world.
We welcome all methodologies, including analytical modeling, simulation modeling, operations research tool development, quantitative and qualitative empirical studies, and other rigorous research methods. Multimethod and multidisciplinary articles are especially welcome. We also welcome systematic description of production and operations methods, practices and experiments that relate to the management of pandemics (and, also to epidemics). There are a variety of strategies that are being employed in different parts of the world which are the result of local and cultural variations.
In this special issue, we are exploring the answers to the following question:What could have been done to mitigate and thereby manage the pandemic created by COVID-19 from a POM perspective? All papers should create knowledge of relevance to the practice, with a theory base, of involved industrial, government and public or healthcare sectors.
This special issue cuts across many POM research areas that are important to manage pandemics. These include but are not limited to:
- Public Policy Issues:Public policy that supports balancing the demand and supply for healthcare supplies, foodstuffs, and other critical items; testing and quarantine protocols; coordination among the government agencies.
- Public-Private Partnership:Development of public-private partnership to improve rapid response of public health and other government operations; new business ventures’ ability to improve production and supply chains in response to a pandemic.
- New Product Development:Accelerated development and production of medicines, vaccines and equipment; coordination among scientists, researchers, doctors and politicians. Innovations in testing for the virus to determine the extent of the spread along the critical timeline.
- Supply Chain Configurations:Operations and supply chain continuity; sourcing issues, managing supply chain disruptions, in healthcare supplies, foodstuffs, and other critical areas, created by a pandemic.
- Capacity Planning:Short-term (including mobile) and long-term capacity for health care and hospital personnel, beds, medicines and critical care equipment; healthcare operations during a pandemic. There is an opportunity to develop flexible manufacturing and service systems that can switch from “peace time to war time outputs.
- Disease Spread:Short- and long-term forecasting of the pandemic spread, warning signals, information technology, role of social media, public and national cultures in containing the spread of disease. POM practices that cater for critical differences between epidemics and pandemics.
Note: Knowledge Sharing: We will make this issue available to the general public free for five years after publication.
We wish to fast track the development of this special issue through the following steps.
- Initial Submission. This will be an extended abstract (8 Pages, 12 Font, Plus Figures and Data Tables). The first page of the abstract should describe the relevance, theory and practice of the research to one of the topics listed above. This should be submitted to manuscript central. Due date for submission: August 31, 2020. Decision due date: November 30, 2020.
- If the abstract is accepted, the authors will be invited to submit the full length paper. However, a virtual mini-conference may be held with the authors of accepted abstracts in the first week of December, 2020. This conference will focus on the development of the promising submissions.
- Submission of Full Length paper (Round 1): Due date: January 31, 2021. Decision due date: April 1, 2021.
- A special feedback session for the promising papers will be organized at the POMS 2021 Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, April 29-May 3, 2021.
- Final Submission (round 2): Due date: May 31, 2021, Acceptance decision due date: July 31, 2021.
管理流行病：POM视角
征集论文：流行病管理专题：POM视角
延长的摘要截止日期：2020年8月31日
受邀正式提交文件截止日期：2021年1月31日
特邀编辑
Dr. Edward G. Anderson, University of Texas, TX, USA, edanderson@utexas.edu
Dr. Sushil Gupta, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA, guptask@fiu.edu
Dr. Nitin Joglekar, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, joglekar@bu.edu
Dr. Martin K. Starr, Rollins College, martin.starr@gmail.com
背景
21世纪出现了许多流行病，包括SARS、MERS、H1N1和最近的COVID-19。最后一种病毒规模空前，可能最终感染10亿以上的人，扰乱世界大多数人口的生活。重要的是，COVID-19以始料不及的方式揭示了流行病与生产、运营和供应链管理之间的深刻联系。负面后果的示例包括，提高医疗产品生产能力的难度，对危机的快速反应，呼吸机和相关医疗设备的安装基数不足，可能使危重病人无法接受治疗，囤积食物引发牛鞭效应，疫苗开发的关键路径减慢了疫苗接种部署的时间，以及供应链的脆弱性导致了世界面临的总体经济混乱。
我们开始看到正在开发新的生产和运营选择作为补救措施，包括呼吸机的新颖设计和防护装备的国产化。各种监管和非监管措施正在发挥作用，不仅是为了阻止流行病的蔓延，而且也是为了创造医疗能力，增加关键库存的生产和分销。数字信息和连接性正在创造新的工作流模型。远程医疗技术、系统和程序正在成为减少人与人之间身体接触的最佳实践。信息的收集和传播以及数据分析正在用于政策设计以及生产和供应链协调。
对于社会和商业场景来说，这场流行病可能会引发一种新的常态，即供需匹配的方式。理解生产与运营管理的作用如何影响流行病的发展和补救是非常重要的，但是，从描述性和规范性的角度来看，这一领域的研究不足。该特刊旨在以最高创造力、相关性和严谨性的研究来填补这一研究空缺，为未来在这个新的，但是关键的，世界所面临的问题方面的工作打下基础。
我们欢迎所有方法，包括分析建模、仿真建模、运筹学工具开发、定量和定性实证研究，以及其他严谨的研究方法。多方法和多学科的文章尤其受欢迎。我们也欢迎有系统地描述与流行病管理有关的生产和运营方法、实践和试验。在世界不同地区，由于地方和文化差异，正在采用各种各样的策略。
在这期特刊中，我们正在探讨以下问题的答案：从POM的角度，我们可以做些什么来减轻和管理由COVID-19引起的大流行？所有论文都应有理论基础地创造与相关行业、政府和公共或医疗保健部门实践相关的知识。
这一特刊涉及到许多POM研究领域，这些领域对管理流行病很重要。包括但不限于：
1. 公共政策问题: 支持平衡医疗保健用品、食品和其他关键物品的供需的公共政策；检测和隔离协议；政府机构之间的协调。.
2. 公有-私有伙伴关系: 发展公有-私有伙伴关系以提高对公共卫生和其他政府运营的快速反应；新企业在应对流行病时改善生产和供应链的能力。
3. 新产品开发: 加快药品、疫苗和设备的开发和生产；科学家、研究人员、医生和政治家之间的协调。在病毒测试方面的创新，以确定沿关键时间线传播的程度。
4. 供应链配置: 运营和供应链的连续性。在医疗用品、食品和其他关键领域，由流行病造成的采购问题、管理供应链中断。
5. 能力规划：卫生保健和医院人员、床位、药品和重症监护设备的短期（包括流动）和长期能力；流行病期间的医疗保健业务。现在有机会开发灵活的制造和服务系统，使其能够从“和平时期的产出”转变为“战时的产出”。
6. 疾病传播：流行病传播的短期和长期预测、警告信号、信息技术、社会媒体、公众和国家文化在遏制疾病传播方面的作用。针对疫情和流行病之间的关键区别的POM实践。
注：知识共享：本期出版后五年内免费向公众开放。
我们希望通过以下步骤加快这一特别问题的发展。
1.首次提交。这将是一个扩展的摘要（8页，12号字体，加上图表和数据表）。摘要的第一页应该描述研究与上面列出的主题之一的相关性，理论和实践。这应该提交给稿件中心。提交截止日期：2020年8月31日。决定截止日期：2020年11月30日。
2.如果摘要被接受，将邀请作者提交全文。在2020年12月的第一周，可能会与接受的摘要作者举行一次虚拟的小型会议。这次会议将集中讨论有希望提交材料的发展。
3.提交全文（第一轮）：截止日期：2021年1月31日。决定截止日期：2021年4月1日。
4.将于2021年4月29日至5月3日在美国佐治亚州亚特兰大举行的POMS 2021会议上为有希望的论文组织一次特别反馈会议。
5.最终提交（第2轮）：截止日期：2021年5月31日，接收决定截止日期：2021年7月31日。