Professor Ekundayo Shittu was awarded two research grants in recent months, one in the area of healthcare logistics and the other in the area of renewable energy credits. These grants reflect the breadth of Prof. Shittu’s cutting-edge research program.
LMI Research Institute
The LMI Research Institute awarded Prof. Ekundayo Shittu a one-year, $43,805 grant for his project “Decision Support System for Malaria Vaccine Procurement and Inventory in Developing Countries.”
The goal of Prof. Shittu’s project is to develop a comprehensive framework that offers novel approaches to ways in which technology can improve decision-making for healthcare logistics in developing countries under conditions of uncertainty and risk. The project is motivated by the observation that many high impact global interventions for universal childhood immunization have not achieved their intended objectives.
The recent success of a new malaria vaccine in clinical trials boosts the expectation that the world’s first malaria vaccine may be imminent. Prof. Shittu’s project is just in time to prepare risk-hedging strategies for malaria vaccine procurement, delivery, and inventory.
George Washington Institute for Public Policy
Prof. Shittu also received a one-year, $12,000 grant from the George Washington Institute for Public Policy for his project “Policy Design for Renewable Energy Credits: Equilibrium vs. Optimality.” This project will address how regulation should be designed to guarantee that the value proposition created, is equitably and fairly distributed among the participating entities if energy firms were to participate in a national market for renewable energy credits or certificates (RECs).
His research will address the question: “Under what policy scenarios would firms favor expensive local energy over cheaper more effective out-of-state renewable energy?” In addition, Prof. Shittu will investigate the question: “What are the impacts of such a national market on firms' technology choices and on their strategies for energy capacity expansion decisions?”