Research

Articles Published / Forthcoming

Bravo, F., C. Rudin, Y. Shaposhnik, Y. Yuan. (2023) Interpretable Prediction Rules for Congestion Risk in ICUs. Accepted at Stochastic Systems

Adida, E. and F. Bravo (2023)  Primary Care First initiative: impact on care delivery and outcomes. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.

Bravo F., Levi R., Perakis G., G. Romero. (2023) Care coordination for healthcare referrals under a shared-savings program. Production and Operations Management.

Bravo F., Braun M., Farias V., Levi, R., Lynch, C., Tumolo, J., R. White  (2021). Optimization-driven framework to understand healthcare networks cost and resource allocationHealth Care Management Science

Nyotta B., Bravo F., and K. Chen. (2021). Computing the conditional entry-state distribution in Erlang loss systems. OR Letters.

Corcoran, T., Bravo F., E. Long (2020). Flexible drug approval policies. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Bravo F. and Y. Shaposhnik (2019). Mining optimal policies: A pattern recognition approach to model analysis. INFORMS Journal on Optimization.

Johnson, D., F. Bravo, E. Kwok, C. Ahn, A. Pashchinskiy, M.S. Litwin, and C.S. Saigal. (2021) Prospective financial modeling to predict outcomes and quantify risk in episode-based payment models. The American Journal of Managed Care.

Johnson DC, Kwok E, Ahn C, Pashchinskiy A, Laviana AA, Golla V, Rosenthal JT, Bravo F, Litwin MS, Saigal CS. (2019). Financial Margins for Prostate Cancer Surgery: Quantifying the Impact of Modifiable Cost Inputs in an Episode-based Reimbursement Model. The Journal of Urology. pp.10-1097.

Adida, E. and F. Bravo (2018). Contracts for healthcare referral services. Management Science

Bravo F., Ferrari L., Levi R., M. McManus (2015). The nature and sources of variability in pediatric surgical case duration. Paediatric Anaesthesia. doi: 10.1111/pan.12709

Bravo F., Duran G., Lucena A., Marenco J., Moran D., A. Weintraub. (2013). Mathematical models for optimizing production chain planning in salmon farming. International Transactions in Operational Research 20.5 : 731-766

Hernandez P., Alonso-Ayuso A., Bravo F., Escudero L., Guignard M., Marianov V., A. Weintraub (2012). A branch-and-cluster coordination scheme for selecting prison facility sites under uncertainty. Computers & Operations Research 39.9: 2232-2241

Articles Under Review / Working Papers


Bravo, F., Hu J., and E. Long. Closer to home: partnering to distribute vaccinations under spatially heterogeneous demand. Submitted to MSOM. (Link) (Anderson Review)

Nyotta, B., Bravo, F., J. Feldman. Optimizing an electric vehicle sharing system. R&R to MSOM. (Link)

Research In progress 

Bravo, F., Y. Chen, and J. Silberholz. Combining pre-approval clinical trials and post-approval spontaneous adverse event reporting for improved safety signaling.

Bravo, F., Hu J., and E. Long. Interpretable risk scoring for identification of long-term opioid use. 

Bravo, F., He Z., Shaposhnik, Y., and L. Valdes. A behavioral study of self-other adoption discrepancies In XAI.