Field Study in Deploying Restless
Multi-Armed Bandits:
Assisting Non-Profits in
Improving Maternal & Child Health

Authors: Aditya Mate, Shresth Verma, Gargi Singh, Aparna Taneja and Milind Tambe

The wide-spread availability of cell phones has allowed non-profits to deliver targeted health information via voice or text messages to beneficiaries in underserved communities, often with significant demonstrated benefits to those communities. We focus in particular on non-profits that target improving maternal and infant health in low-resource communities in the global south. These non-profits deliver ante- and post-natal care information via voice and text to prevent adverse health outcomes.

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