African Working Group in Healthcare Systems

Mission of the AWG in Healthcare Systems

The objective of this African Working Group is to bring together OR experts and health professionals – both from the public and private sectors – to develop a network of multidisciplinary skills in the field of health. This network will contribute to meet the challenges of this sector through the identification and implementation of action research projects aimed at improving the quality and safety of health services in Africa. It is by pooling skills and joining forces that this current African health situation will be turned around. Promoting OR and its applications in healthcare will undoubtedly be the main topic of the upcoming streams and events to be organized. 

Areas of research

The members of the African Working Group in Healthcare Systems have strong background and interest in healthcare systems. Precisely, the main achievements are:

• Several PhD theses defended and/or supervised by members of the group.

• Several agreements with socio-economic partners such as hospitals (Charles Nicolle Teaching Hospital, Abderrahmene Mami Teaching Hospital, Habib Thameur Hospital, Béthune Beuvry Hospital Center), public health institutions (Central Pharmacy of Tunisia, “Structure Fédérative de Recherche – Technologies pour la Santé et Médicament” Federative Research Structure – Technologies for Health and Medicine, France), etc.

• Several International Collaboration Programs such as CMCU project PHC UTIQUE 18G1410, H2020-PROPHETIC (PROPHETIC: An innovating Personal Healthcare Service for a holistic remote management and treatment of Parkinson patients.), Research Project FUI FEDER collectivités : e-Monitor’Age, etc.

• Organization of scientific events such as JTOH 2016, JETSAN 2017, GISEH 2020, IEEEGOL 2020, etc.

• Among the members of our group, there are OR outstanding researchers, health professionals and experts.