<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Elliot S. Lee — Blog</title><description>Notes on global health, machine learning, operations research, and adjacent things.</description><link>https://elliotlee.info/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>The unglamorous problem</title><link>https://elliotlee.info/blog/the-unglamorous-problem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://elliotlee.info/blog/the-unglamorous-problem/</guid><description>On medical supply chains, the problems nobody wants to work on, and why designing for the average is a quiet decision to accept the tail.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>global health</category><category>operations research</category><category>supply chains</category></item><item><title>What to do when you do not know</title><link>https://elliotlee.info/blog/what-to-do-when-you-do-not-know/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://elliotlee.info/blog/what-to-do-when-you-do-not-know/</guid><description>On robust optimization, adjustable robust optimization, distributionally robust optimization, and the discipline of writing down what you don&apos;t know.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>operations research</category><category>optimization</category><category>research methods</category></item><item><title>Friday nights</title><link>https://elliotlee.info/blog/friday-nights/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://elliotlee.info/blog/friday-nights/</guid><description>On the ambulance, the desk, and the inheritance of a first squad.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>EMS</category><category>essays</category></item><item><title>The two cultures, revisited</title><link>https://elliotlee.info/blog/the-two-cultures-revisited/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://elliotlee.info/blog/the-two-cultures-revisited/</guid><description>On prediction, inference, and the temperamental disagreement underneath the methodological one.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>statistics</category><category>machine learning</category><category>research methods</category></item><item><title>The pills came from somewhere</title><link>https://elliotlee.info/blog/the-pills-came-from-somewhere/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://elliotlee.info/blog/the-pills-came-from-somewhere/</guid><description>On Gaborone, Macapá, and the geography underneath every health system.</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>global health</category><category>health systems</category><category>supply chains</category></item><item><title>What the promise actually requires</title><link>https://elliotlee.info/blog/what-the-promise-actually-requires/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://elliotlee.info/blog/what-the-promise-actually-requires/</guid><description>On the gap between what machine learning can do for global health and what it actually requires to do it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>global health</category><category>machine learning</category><category>research ethics</category></item><item><title>When does global health research become extraction?</title><link>https://elliotlee.info/blog/when-does-global-health-research-become-extraction/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://elliotlee.info/blog/when-does-global-health-research-become-extraction/</guid><description>Notes on parachute research, the gradient between collaboration and extraction, and the questions worth asking throughout a project.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>global health</category><category>research ethics</category></item></channel></rss>