Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics

VISION

To improve humanitarian logistics (including short or long-term, man-made or natural disasters, global and public health, and long-term development needs) and ultimately the human condition by system transformations through education, outreach, projects and research.

MISSION IN KEY AREAS

Our vision will be achieved by focusing on the areas of education, outreach, projects and research. Our mission in these areas includes:

• Education: Increase human resource capacity by training humanitarian logisticians for positions in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), private industry, and the government.
• Outreach: Foster multi-organizational collaboration to improve effectiveness of humanitarian logistics operations and prevention and be the primary source for information on humanitarian logistics.
• Research & Applications: Advance science and technology to improve humanitarian logistics planning and response in the long-term, while working closely with NGOs, government, and the private industry to improve their supply chain and logistics operations in the short-term.

• HEALTH AND HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS CONFERENCE ARCHIVE
• Conference Websites
  Below are links to the past Georgia hosted Health & Humanitarian Logistics website where you can find past programs and archived video.
  · 2012 Conference website held March 21-23,2012 in Hamburg, Germany.
  · 2011 Conference website held March 3-4, 2011.
  · 2010 Conference website held March 4-5, 2010.
  · 2009 Conference website held February 19-20, 2009.

• CURRENTLY ACCEPTING PROJECTS
• Submit a project for a graduate course related to Humanitarian Logistics
• Students, please submit your name if you're interested in a graduate course in humanitarian logistics
• Check out the feature on the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics in the Summer 2007 issue of Engineering enterprise

• CENTER SPOTLIGHT
• Georgia Tech and Emory Collaborate to Offer Predictive Health Track in M.S. Health Systems Degree
  April 16, 2012

  The Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University are partnering to offer a new master’s degree program track in predictive health that will prepare students to become leaders who can make a significant impact in the health sector for generations to come.

• Engineers Use Computer Models to Help Resource-Poor Nations Improve Allocation of Limited Health Care Resources
  February 23, 2012

  In the developing world, allocating limited health care resources as effectively and equitably as possible is a top priority.

  To address that need, systems engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using computer models to help resource-poor nations improve supply chain decisions related to the distribution of breast milk and non-pharmaceutical interventions for malaria. They are also forecasting what health care services would be available in the event of natural disasters in Caribbean nations.

• Alumni Spotlight: Kristin Goin is one of the 2012 New Faces in Engineering
  February 21, 2012

  Kristin Goin, MS HS 2008, has been selected to be the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) representative for the 2012 New Faces of Engineering, a program that honors promising young engineers who are contributing greatly to society, thus promoting the image of engineering globally. As part of this recognition, Goin will be featured in a USA Today advertisement during National Engineers Week February 19-25.

• Özlem Ergun Works with Harvard Engineering Students to Develop Hurricane Response Plan
  February 13, 2012

  Post-disaster debris collection operations are, in general, not planned in advance and are done in an ad-hoc way after an event. Issues in tactical and operational planning include clearing quickly, widely, and in a way that is good for the environment and health.  Co-directors for the Georgia Tech Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics Pinar Keskinocak, Joseph C.

• Keskinocak Works with CDC on Immunization Improvements
  December 19, 2011

  Pinar Keskinocak, the Joseph C. Mello Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Associate Director of Research for the Health Systems Institute, and the co-director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, has been serving on the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Expert Panel, The Immunization Information Systems Support Branch (IISSB) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), since April 2011.

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