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Decisions and Deployment: The Five-Year SAHELI Project (2020-2025) on Restless Multi-Armed Bandits for Improving Maternal and Child Health
Shresth Verma, Arpan Dasgupta, Neha Madhiwalla +2
Maternal and child health is a critical concern around the world. In many global health programs disseminating preventive care and health information, limited healthcare worker res…
Beyond Listenership: AI-Predicted Interventions Drive Improvements in Maternal Health Behaviours
Arpan Dasgupta, Sarvesh Gharat, Neha Madhiwalla +3
Automated voice calls with health information are a proven method for disseminating maternal and child health information among beneficiaries and are deployed in several programs a…
"Who Has the Time?": Understanding Receptivity to Health Chatbots among Underserved Women in India
Manvi S, Roshini Deva, Neha Madhiwalla +1
Access to health information and services among women continues to be a major challenge in many communities globally. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the pote…
Preliminary Study of the Impact of AI-Based Interventions on Health and Behavioral Outcomes in Maternal Health Programs
Arpan Dasgupta, Niclas Boehmer, Neha Madhiwalla +4
Automated voice calls are an effective method of delivering maternal and child health information to mothers in underserved communities. One method to fight dwindling listenership…
Scalable Decision-Focused Learning in Restless Multi-Armed Bandits with Application to Maternal and Child Health
Kai Wang, Shresth Verma, Aditya Mate +5
This paper studies restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) problems with unknown arm transition dynamics but with known correlated arm features. The goal is to learn a model to predict…
Field Study in Deploying Restless Multi-Armed Bandits: Assisting Non-Profits in Improving Maternal and Child Health
Aditya Mate, Lovish Madaan, Aparna Taneja +6
The widespread availability of cell phones has enabled non-profits to deliver critical health information to their beneficiaries in a timely manner. This paper describes our work t…
Selective Intervention Planning using Restless Multi-Armed Bandits to Improve Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
Siddharth Nishtala, Lovish Madaan, Aditya Mate +11
India has a maternal mortality ratio of 113 and child mortality ratio of 2830 per 100,000 live births. Lack of access to preventive care information is a major contributing factor…
Missed calls, Automated Calls and Health Support: Using AI to improve maternal health outcomes by increasing program engagement
Siddharth Nishtala, Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Divy Thakkar +8
India accounts for 11% of maternal deaths globally where a woman dies in childbirth every fifteen minutes. Lack of access to preventive care information is a significant problem co…