Pinar Keskinocak Honored with the Outstanding Professional Education Award
The Outstanding Professional Education Award recognizes a faculty member for their contribution to the field of professional education at Georgia Tech.
Valerie Thomas Honored with Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award
Anderson Interface Professor of Natural Systems, Valerie Thomas has been awarded the Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award by the Faculty Honors Committee.
CHHS Offers Professional Certificate Program in Health & Humanitarian Supply Chain Management
REGISTER ONLINE: https://chhs.gatech.edu/professional-education2018 courses:Pre-planning Strategy for Health and Humanitarian Organizations MAY 14-15Tactical Decision Making in Public Health and Humanitarian Response MAY 16-17Systems Operations in Health and Humanitarian Response MAY 18-19
10th Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference (July 18-19, 2018 | Dubai UAE)
Register Now for our discounted rate by: Wednesday, April 4 2018The aim of the 10th annual Health & Humanitarian Logistics (HHL) Conference is to provide an open forum to discuss the challenges and new solutions in disaster preparedness and response, long-term development and humanitarian aid, and global health delivery. The conference platform encourages learning and collaboration within and across institutions; promotes system-wide improvements in organizations and the sector as a whole; identifies important research issues; and establishes priorities for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), corporations, and the government in terms of strategies, policies and investments.
ISyE Alumna Yuxi Wu: “Humanitarian Supply Chain Is My Passion”
In this interview, ISyE alumna Yuxi Wu talks about her particular interest in humanitarian supply chain and her current role with UNICEF in Amman, Jordan.
Collaboration Among Georgia Tech, Mass. General, Emory Researchers to Focus on Elimination of Hepatitis C
Supported by the Directorates for Engineering and Computer and Information Science and Engineering through the Smart and Connected Health initiative, the National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million grant over four years to a team of researchers to study the elimination of hepatitis C in the United States.
Health Systems - The Next Generation 2017 Forum
The Center for Health & Humanitarian Systems (CHHS) at Georgia Tech recently hosted Health Systems: The Next Generation. To review the presentations, posters and photos from the forum visit http://pwp.gatech.edu/hsng2017/
Research Helps Humanitarian Aid Organization
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have identified how medical surplus items can be distributed more efficiently by humanitarian organizations. Two recent articles, “Effective Medical Surplus Recovery” and “Truthful Mechanisms for Medical Surplus Product Allocation,” identify operations methodology that enables recipients to request and receive items that best match their needs.
Engineering Research Center Will Help Expand Use of Therapies Based on Living Cells
Led by the Georgia Institute of Technology, the NSF Engineering Research Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT) could help revolutionize the treatment of cancer, heart disease, autoimmune diseases and other disorders by enabling broad use of potentially curative therapies that utilize living cells – such as immune cells and stem cells – as “drugs.”
National Science Foundation awards TRIPODS Institute to Georgia Tech for the establishment of the Transdisciplinary Research Institute for Advancing Data Science
The Georgia Institute of Technology will direct a new cross-disciplinary institute established with a $1.5 million National Science Foundation award.
ISyE William W. George Chair Pinar Keskinocak Selected as COE Interim Associate Dean
Dr. Keskinocak, George Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been named as interim associate dean for faculty development and scholarship in the College of Engineering (CoE) Dean’s Office, effective July 1.
2017 Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference Brings Together Hundreds to Affect Positive Change Across the Globe
The event drew over 200 attendees from 39 countries and 127 organizations, including non-governmental organizations and UN agencies as well as government, industry, foundations, and academia.
Georgia Tech Center for Health & Humanitarian Systems (CHHS) Offers Professional Certificate in Health & Humanitarian Supply Chain Management to International Cohort
31 practitioners in global health and humanitarian response, from 17 countries across the globe, gathered at Georgia Tech’s Global Learning Center for a week in May to participate in the certificate program in Health & Humanitarian Supply Chain Management offered by Georgia Tech’s Center for Health & Humanitarian Systems.
HHL Conference announces Keynote speaker Rick Brennan, Director of Emergency Operations at World Health Organization (WHO)
The 9th annual Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference draws practitioners from across various sectors to discuss supply chain, logistics, and systems design for global health and humanitarian response / long-term development.
CHHS hosts "Innovation in Public Impact Research Across GA Tech" seminar
Watch VIDEO recap of the April 19th seminar from professors in College of Computing, the School of City & Regional Planning, and the Enterprise Innovation Institute on new research related to improving health and urban planning locally and internationally.
CHHS Alumna Mallory Soldner now "Doing Good with Data" at UPS!
Soldner is now an advanced analytics manager at UPS comments on her recent TED@UPS talk, “Your Company's Data Could Help End World Hunger!"
Julie Swann and Nicoleta Serban Help Clinicians and Public Health Agents Make Decisions Through Data and Analytics
Professors Serban and Swann assess billions of transaction records from the nation’s Medicaid program using eight years of complete records from 50 million patients, 38 million of them children.
CHHS Senior Design Team Works with CDC on a Risk Assessment Tool for Organ Donations
The demand and the average time on the waiting lists for organ transplants are growing, while the supply of organs remains comparatively limited.
CHHS Alumni and Directors' Optimization Tool for Job Placement Makes Impact in Mozambique
The Task Force for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, and the Ministry of Health in Mozambique partner with Georgia Tech CHHS to develop tool to improve job placement in health sector.
Register Now for May 2017 Professional Certificate program in Health & Humanitarian Supply Chain Management
REGISTRATION is now available online to enroll in the 2017 certificate program (May 8-13th) for professionals from companies, government and military, NGOs, academia and other organizations active in health and humanitarian logistics. There are a limited number of scholarships for practitioners working at NGOs and in developing countries. See the link included for details.
UPS CMO Teresa Finley shares at IMPACT Series co-hosted by Scheller's ILE and CHHS
Teresa M. Finley, Chief Marketing and Global Business Services Officer at UPS, speaks Wed, Sept. 14th, as part of the IMPACT Speaker Series at the Scheller College of Business on the global and social impact of UPS as a leader in Logistics.
CHHS Hosts Health Systems Event, Sept 16, 2016
The goal of this event is to identify important trends in healthcare systems and design, the future of health systems ecucation, and opportunities for collaboration. The event will include a keynote presentation, two plenary panel sessions, and presentations and posters by alumni on new research.
CHHS's Dr. Swann and Research Team Examine Medicaid Costs for Children
Research teams analyzed six years of Medicaid claims for every child in ten U.S. states and found that healthy children are 50 to 60 percent of the total cost in the Medicaid system in GA.
Leaders at CDC and CARE USA to Give Keynote Address at Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference
Dr. Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director at the CDC, and Michelle Nunn, CEO at CARE USA, to share on global health and humanitarian systems response and development in areas such as health emergencies and refugee crisis management.
CHHS Recognized for Global Impact with 2016 Denning Award
Professors Pinar Keskinocak and Julie Swann, co-directors of the Center for Health & Humanitarian Systems (CHHS) and professors in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) have been honored with George Tech’s 2016 Steven A. Denning Award for Global Engagement.