Disasters, affecting the lives of thousands of people, pose a serious life threat to chronic patients who need regular treatment even under normal conditions. Decisions should be made in a complex post-disaster environment, such as which healthcare facilities patients will be referred after a disaster, whether reduced treatment options should be applied, and how to schedule the dialysis treatment sessions in the dialysis centers. This project supervised by Prof. Dr. Burcu Balçık from OzU Industrial Engineering aims to introduce new resource planning problems addressing disaster preparedness and response stages to serve the vulnerable chronic dialysis patients better and develop effective mathematical models and solution methods for these problems.

Prof. Burcu Balçık is also in a project team that aims capacity planning at a hemodialysis clinic during covid-19 pandemic to mitigate infection spread.