Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccine allocation in resource poor settings: Towards an Artificial Intelligence-enabled and Geospatial-assisted decision support framework

Soheil Shayegh; Javier Andreu-Perez; Caroline Akoth; Xavier Bosch-Capblanch; Shouro Dasgupta; Giacomo Falchetta; Simon Gregson; Ahmed T. Hammad; Mark Herringer; Festus Kapkea; Alvaro Labella; Luca Lisciotto; Luis Martínez; Peter M. Macharia; Paulina Morales-Ruiz; Njeri Murage; Vittoria Offeddu; Andy South; Aleksandra Torbica; Filippo Trentini; Alessia Melegaro

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0275037

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Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccine allocation in resource poor settings: Towards an Artificial Intelligence-enabled and Geospatial-assisted decision support framework

Soheil Shayegh ,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ SS and AM are joint senior authors and contributed equally to this work

Affiliation RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Milan, Italy

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8960-8244

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Javier Andreu-Perez ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Computational Intelligence, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, Group Simbad, Department of Computer Science, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7421-4808

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Caroline Akoth ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Women in GIS Kenya Ltd, Nairobi, Kenya
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Xavier Bosch-Capblanch ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Shouro Dasgupta ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Fondazione CMCC, Lecce, Italy, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy
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Giacomo Falchetta ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Milan, Italy, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria
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Simon Gregson ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Imperial College School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe
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Ahmed T. Hammad ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, Decatab Pte. Ltd., Singapore, Singapore

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3327-2435

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Mark Herringer ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Global Healthsites Mapping Project—Healthsites.io, Hoorn, Netherlands, Mapping the Risk of International Infectious Disease Spread—mriids.org, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Festus Kapkea ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Women in GIS Kenya Ltd, Nairobi, Kenya
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Alvaro Labella ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain
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Luca Lisciotto ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy, DNV—Energy Systems, Bologna, Italy
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Luis Martínez ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain
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Peter M. Macharia ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Population & Health Impact Surveillance GroupUnit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3410-1881

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Paulina Morales-Ruiz ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Economics and Business, Access-to-Medicines Research Centre, Research Center for Operations Management, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4358-5443

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Njeri Murage ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Women in GIS Kenya Ltd, Nairobi, Kenya
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Vittoria Offeddu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Covid Crisis Lab, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
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Andy South ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Aleksandra Torbica ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cergas—Centre for Research on Health and Social Csare Management, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, Department of Social and Political Science, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
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Filippo Trentini ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Javier Andreu-Perez, Caroline Akoth, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Shouro Dasgupta, Giacomo Falchetta, Simon Gregson, Ahmed T. Hammad, Mark Herringer, Festus Kapkea, Alvaro Labella, Luca Lisciotto, Luis Martínez, Peter M. Macharia, Paulina Morales-Ruiz, Njeri Murage, Vittoria Offeddu, Andy South, Aleksandra Torbica, Filippo Trentini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Covid Crisis Lab, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, Center for Health Emergencies, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Povo, Italy
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Alessia Melegaro

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: alessia.melegaro@unibocconi.it

¶‡ SS and AM are joint senior authors and contributed equally to this work

Affiliations Covid Crisis Lab, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, Department of Social and Political Science, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2221-8898

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Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccine allocation in resource poor settings: Towards an Artificial Intelligence-enabled and Geospatial-assisted decision support framework

Soheil Shayegh,
Javier Andreu-Perez,
Caroline Akoth,
Xavier Bosch-Capblanch,
Shouro Dasgupta,
Giacomo Falchetta,
Simon Gregson,
Ahmed T. Hammad,
Mark Herringer,
Festus Kapkea

Published: August 10, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275037

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