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Announcing the results of the 2026 INFORMS Board of Directors election and the new board for 2027.

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INFORMS has named 12 distinguished leaders as the 2026 class of INFORMS Fellows, one of the highest honors in the profession.

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Most medical devices do not hit the market through rigorous safety testing but by being deemed similar enough to something already approved—the “predicate” device through a mechanism known as the FDA’s 510(k) pathway. But similar is not a synonym for safe. While the assumption may be that substantial equivalence is a reasonable stand-in for a safety review, a share of devices cleared with this method still get recalled, and the FDA spends valuable time reviewing devices the same way, regardless of how risky it is on paper.

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Transportation Logistics Expert Sheldon Jacobson on How to Address Variants for Air Travel in 2022

Transportation Logistics Expert Sheldon Jacobson on How to Address Variants for Air Travel in 2022

Audio Clip, December 21, 2021

New audio is available for media use featuring transportation logistics expert Sheldon Jacobson on the impact of new COVID-19 variants’ on air travel for 2022 and what actions need to be taken to address them as they emerge. This content is made available by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences. All sound should be attributed to Sheldon Jacobson, founder professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has researched aviation security systems since 1995 and is a prominent member of INFORMS.  

UCLA’s Chris Tang on How the Supply Chain Crisis Can and Should be Addressed in 2022

UCLA’s Chris Tang on How the Supply Chain Crisis Can and Should be Addressed in 2022

Audio Clip, December 17, 2021

New audio is available for media use featuring supply chain expert Chris Tang. He is a Distinguished Professor at UCLA; the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean, Global Initiatives; and Faculty Director, Center for Global Management. He is also an INFORMS member. INFORMS is the largest association for the decision and data sciences.

What it takes to understand a variant

What it takes to understand a variant

Bdnews.com, December 17, 2021

“We are going to see a couple of weeks of every day, new information, new studies,” said Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist at the WHO. “One study is not going to really prove anything.”

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