Margaret Brandeau
is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She is an operations
researcher and policy analyst with an extensive background in the development of applied mathematical
and economic models, and a distinguished investigator in HIV research. Her AIDS research, funded for
many years by the State of California University-wide AIDS Research Program and by the National
Institutes of Drug Abuse (NIDA), has focused on uysing mathematical and economic models to assess
the value of different HIV and drug abuse interventions. She has published cost effectiveness analyses
of a variety of HIV and drug abuse interventions including methadone maintenance, buprenorphine maintenance
HIV screening of pregnant women and newborns and HIV testing and counseling programs targeted to women
of childbearing age. She has also published a number of studies on effective allocation of HIV prevention
resources. In addition, she co-edited the book Modeling the AIDS Epidemic: Planning, Policy, and
Prediction (with Edward Kaplan, Raven Press, 1994). She was a Principal Investigator on a five-year
NIDA-funded project titled "AIDS and Drug Abuse: Policy Modeling for Better Decisions" that led to
numerous publications and presentations. She was also Co-Principal Investigator of a project to assess HIV
prevention interventions targeted to adolescents. Professor Brandeau was awarded a 1988 Presidential
Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. She was awarded the 2001 Pierskalla
Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) for research excellence
in health care management science.
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