4 papers
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…
Learning to Call: A Field Trial of a Collaborative Bandit Algorithm for Improved Message Delivery in Mobile Maternal Health
Arpan Dasgupta, Mizhaan Maniyar, Awadhesh Srivastava +7
Mobile health (mHealth) programs utilize automated voice messages to deliver health information, particularly targeting underserved communities, demonstrating the effectiveness of…
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…
Bayesian Collaborative Bandits with Thompson Sampling for Improved Outreach in Maternal Health Program
Arpan Dasgupta, Gagan Jain, Arun Suggala +3
Mobile health (mHealth) programs face a critical challenge in optimizing the timing of automated health information calls to beneficiaries. This challenge has been formulated as a…