Community and Policy Analytics

Analysis that supports public decisions, including public health: how scarce resources such as medicines reach the people who need them, what shapes health behavior, and how organizations choose and run their programs and projects.

These are the projects and publications we have done in this area. Each project links to its full page on erickjonesphd.com, and each publication links to the paper.

Projects

COVID-19 Last-Mile Distribution

COVID-19 Last-Mile Distribution

Getting COVID-19 treatments to vulnerable neighborhoods
Opens on erickjonesphd.com ↗

Publications

  • Abbasi, D., Ghasemloo, M., & Jones, E.C., Jr. (2026). Project portfolio selection under uncertainty: A deterministic and stochastic optimization approach. Proceedings of the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2026.
  • Reeves, J., Griner, S., Johnson, K., Jones, E.C., Jr., & Shangani, S. (2024). Exploring relationships between dating app use and sexual activity among young adult college students. Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 6. Paper
  • Jones, E.C., Azeem, G., Jones, E.C., Jr., Jefferson, F., Henry, M., Abolmaali, S., & Sparks, J. (2021). Understanding the last mile transportation concept impacting underserved global communities to save lives during COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Future Transportation, 2, 732331. Paper