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Two Purdue professors and an IE graduate student are improving healthcare of pre-term infants in Malawi. The project includes designing new furniture to promote skin-to-skin contact between mothers and their premature infants - to help save babies' lives in resource-poor areas.

A team of experts in health, industrial engineering and design led by Professors Yuehwern Yih and Steve Visser is working to create a set of space-saving furniture to improve healthcare at a Malawi hospital.

At an upcoming conference in Uganda, Dr. Yuehwern Yih will give a presentation about making medical supply chains more efficient to improve maternal health.

The Omega journal recently published a paper on surgical services management by SOS Lab alumnus Joonyup Eun and co-authors.

Three IE graduate students presented posters at the annual College of Engineering Innovation for International Development (I2D) Exposition hosted by the Shah Family Global Innovation Lab.

A journal specializing in research in cleaner production, environmental, and sustainability research and practice has accepted a network design manuscript by members of the SOS Lab, an IE visiting scholar and a Purdue EEE faculty member.

The Journal of Medical Systems has published an article by SOS Lab members.

An article by SOS Lab members et al. on unintended patient safety risks has recently been published by the Journal of Patient Safety.

The IISE Transactions in Healthcare Systems Engineering journal published “Longitudinal Patterns of Employee High-deductible Health Plan Choices” by former students of Dr. Yuehwern Yih.