Frontiers in Operations: Last-Mile Delivery in Healthcare: Drone Delivery for Blood Products in Rwanda

The authors thank representatives from the Ministry of Health of Rwanda, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, Rwanda Transport Development Agency, Rwanda Development Board, and Zipline Rwanda for insightful comments. In particular, the authors are grateful to Naphtal Ntirenganya of the Rwanda Transport Development Agency for providing access to data on road infrastructure, and to representatives of dozens of hospitals in Rwanda that participated in meetings and allowed the authors to observe their work. This paper has also benefited tremendously from feedback from participants across various conferences, seminars, and workshops. The authors appreciate the excellent research assistance provided by Ryan Liu, Catherine Wang, Bolun Xiao, and Isabel Zhang. All errors are the authors’.