Optimizing the use of drones for distribution of childhood vaccines in less developed countries

James F. Campbell is professor of Supply Chain & Analytics and PhD Program Director in the College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL). He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California – Berkeley. His research centers around modeling and optimization of transportation, logistics and supply chain systems, and has worked with public and private sector organizations in Canada, Australia and the U.S. His recent research interests include drone delivery, hub location and transportation network design, inventory modeling, school bus routing and barge transportation on the Mississippi River. He is a Distinguished Journal Editorial Board member at Transportation Research–Part B, Associate Editor for Transportation Science, and on the editorial boards of Journal of Business Logistics and the International Journal of Revenue Management. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at CSIRO in Australia and has served on dissertation and thesis committees for students at UMSL, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Monash University, and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.