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Micajah McGarity, PhD

I created MZM Consulting in 2023 to help companies locate their facilities in places where they will be positioned for success. I learned about the challenges in facility locating while completing my Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins. My research answered the question of where to place fertility clinics across the United States to expand geographic access to care. I leverage a number of methods from spatial statistics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and multobjective optimization. 

My Story

Experience  

I am an innovative operations research analyst with over 10 years of professional experience. I have worked on a range of problems from submarine operations and port security to human performance modeling of aeromedical evacuations. My doctoral research was focused on the question of how to best expand geographic access to fertility care in the United States, and I have experience applying my doctoral research to the problem of where to locate COVID-19 testing centers. I have recent experience helping the fertility services industry select areas to place new in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics

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Publications

  • McGarity, M.Z., Herndon, C.N., Harris, J.A. et al. Impact of satellite clinics on geographic access to assisted reproductive technology services in the United States. BMC Health Serv Res 22, 928 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08281-y

  • McGarity, Micajah Ziegler. Expanding Geographic Access to Fertility Care in the United States: A Statistical and Multiobjective Optimization Approach. Diss. Johns Hopkins University, 2022. http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/67097

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Education 

  • Bachelor’s degree with highest honor from Georgia Tech in industrial engineering

  • Fulbright Fellowship funded by the U.S. State Department for research in Poland 

  • Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in geography and environmental engineering 

  • Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in geography and environmental engineering 

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