Fall 2005 Seminar Series

Edward H. Kaplan obtained his doctorate in Urban Studies at MIT, along with three masters' degrees in Operations Research, City Planning, and Statistics. An elected member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, he currently serves as the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the Yale School of Management, and Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine. 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. These studies have influenced national and international bioterror policy, and his work on smallpox was awarded the 2003 Koopman Prize of the INFORMS Military Applications Society. Prof. 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. For this work, he has been honored with numerous awards from INFORMS (Including the Lanchester Prize, Edelman Award, and INFORMS President’s Award, in addition to awards from the Connecticut'S Public Health Association and State Health Department. Kaplan is also an elected member of the Board of Governors of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.