Cost-Effective Strategies for Infectious Diseases: A Multi-Objective Framework with an Interactive Dashboard

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Main Authors: Lee, Jongmin, Mendoza, Renier, Mendoza, Victoria May P., Jung, Eunok
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Published: 2025
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author Lee, Jongmin
Mendoza, Renier
Mendoza, Victoria May P.
Jung, Eunok
author_facet Lee, Jongmin
Mendoza, Renier
Mendoza, Victoria May P.
Jung, Eunok
contents During an infectious disease outbreak, policymakers must balance medical costs with social and economic burdens and seek interventions that minimize both. To support this decision-making process, we developed a framework that integrates multi-objective optimization, cost-benefit analysis, and an interactive dashboard. This platform enables users to input cost parameters and immediately obtain a cost-optimal intervention strategy. We applied this framework to the early outbreak of COVID-19 in South Korea. The results showed that cost-optimal solutions for costs per infection ranging from 4,410 USD to 361,000 USD exhibited a similar pattern. This indicates that once the cost per infection is specified, our approach generates the corresponding cost-optimal solution without additional calculations. Our framework supports decision-making by accounting for trade-offs between policy and infection costs. It delivers rapid optimization and cost-benefit analysis results, enabling timely and informed decision-making during the critical phases of a pandemic.
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spellingShingle Cost-Effective Strategies for Infectious Diseases: A Multi-Objective Framework with an Interactive Dashboard
Lee, Jongmin
Mendoza, Renier
Mendoza, Victoria May P.
Jung, Eunok
Optimization and Control
37N40, 90C26, 90C29, 90B50, 92-04, 90-04
G.4; I.6.3; J.4; J.3
During an infectious disease outbreak, policymakers must balance medical costs with social and economic burdens and seek interventions that minimize both. To support this decision-making process, we developed a framework that integrates multi-objective optimization, cost-benefit analysis, and an interactive dashboard. This platform enables users to input cost parameters and immediately obtain a cost-optimal intervention strategy. We applied this framework to the early outbreak of COVID-19 in South Korea. The results showed that cost-optimal solutions for costs per infection ranging from 4,410 USD to 361,000 USD exhibited a similar pattern. This indicates that once the cost per infection is specified, our approach generates the corresponding cost-optimal solution without additional calculations. Our framework supports decision-making by accounting for trade-offs between policy and infection costs. It delivers rapid optimization and cost-benefit analysis results, enabling timely and informed decision-making during the critical phases of a pandemic.
title Cost-Effective Strategies for Infectious Diseases: A Multi-Objective Framework with an Interactive Dashboard
topic Optimization and Control
37N40, 90C26, 90C29, 90B50, 92-04, 90-04
G.4; I.6.3; J.4; J.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09087