PhD Candidate
Year of entry: 2018
I have been a doctoral student in the Operations and Technology Management subject group since 2018, supervised by Professor Feryal Erhun.

Publications and papers
- Betcheva, L., Erhun, F., Feylessoufi, A., Fryers, P., Goncalves, P., Jiang, H., Kattuman, P., Pape, T., Pari, A., Scholtes, S. and Tyrrell, C. (2024) “An adaptive research approach to COVID-19 forecasting for regional health systems in England.” INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, 54(6): 455-574 (DOI: 10.1287/inte.2023.0009)
- Betcheva, L., Kim, J.Y., Erhun, F., Oraiopoulos, N. and Getz, K. (2023) “Applying systems thinking to inform decentralized clinical trial planning and deployment.” Therapeutic Innovation and Regulatory Science, 57(5): 1081-1098 (DOI: 10.1007/s43441-023-00540-2)
News and insights
Faculty news
Do remote drug trials work?
When COVID-19 travel restrictions were introduced, it sparked a trend towards remote participation in clinical assessments of new medicines’ safety and efficacy. A new study co-authored at Cambridge Judge Business School outlines a framework to assess when decentralised drug trials provide the greatest value to the system.
Operations management
How healthcare supply chains can learn from COVID-19 response
The global scramble to find medical supplies to deal with the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic points to both challenges and opportunities for the sometimes too narrowly defined area of healthcare supply chains, says a team of researchers from Cambridge Judge Business School.
Research centre news
Coronavirus research
Working with Public Health England and the NHS in the East of England on responses to COVID-19 (coronavirus).




