CHHS co-hosts Disaster Response Management Forum, April 27
Experts, policy makers, researchers, and decision makers share research, new challenges, and current efforts for improving disaster response from pre-planning to mitigation.
Georgia Tech HHS Center designated as official VA research partner to improve healthcare delivery for veterans.
The designation under a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) allows CHHS to bid for new research proposals at the VA for funding of up to $3 million to improve healthcare delivery for veterans.
2016 Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference at GA Tech: Aug 29-31
For the last 7 years, the Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference (HHL) has brought together speakers and attendees from non-government organizations (NGOs), industry, government, military, and academia to identify challenges and opportunities in global health humanitarian operations and long-term economic development.
Georgia Tech names Health & Humanitarian Systems an official Interdisciplinary Research Center
The Center for Health & Humanitarian Systems (CHHS) was recently designated by Georgia Tech as one of the seven new Interdisciplinary Research Centers (IRCs) on campus. Each of these centers brings together researchers from different disciplines across campus to address topics of strategic importance to Georgia Tech, promoting collaborative research and coordinating activities aimed at large external funding opportunities.
HHS hosts IBM's Rebecca Curzon: Technology and Humanitarian response
Rebecca Curzon, Senior Program Manager for IBM Corporate Citizenship & Affairs addresses the role of technology in disaster response and humanitarian work as part of IMPACT speaker series.
Earn a professional certificate in Health & Humanitarian Supply Chain Management at Georgia Tech!
This May 9-14, 2016, the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (HHS) at Georgia Tech will again offer the 6-day intensive certificate program in Health & Humanitarian Supply Chain Management.
HHL Conference in South Africa Draws Participants from Across Globe!
The 7th annual Conference on Health & Humanitarian Logistics (HHL) held in Johannesburg November 18-20th, 2015 drew 150 participants from 33 different countries around the world engaged in the global health and humanitarian sectors to address challenges and successful models of organizational collaboration and supply chain practices.
Former head of UN Ebola Response Gives Keynote at HHL Conference in South Africa
Former Director of Mission Support for the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Colonel Girish Sinha, will share lessons learned from Ebola response logistics in West Africa as the keynote speaker at the 2015 Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics next November 18-20th in South Africa. Registration for the conference is now live on the conference website- please see more information in link attached.
Save the Date: 2015 Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference, NOV 18-20, South Africa
This year's conference draws practitioners from across NGOs, government, military, private industry, academia and other organizations to address the role of logistics in areas such as disaster response, health systems and food security and to highlight the unique challenges for global health and humanitarian response in Africa.
Ebola Modeling Workshop: THURS-FRI, JAN 22-23 at GA Tech
This workshop will highlight concepts, challenges, and results arising from the use of models to predict the spread and facilitate the control of Ebola in W. Africa with a focus on the following central themes: predicting and interpreting initial outbreak dynamics, planning and evaluating interventions, real-time monitoring and surveillance, and modeling as a tool for communication.
ISyE's Emory Winship Senior Design Team Takes First Place in the Fall 2014 Senior Design Competition
Out of twenty four teams of undergraduate students in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), the Emory Winship Senior Design Team took home first place in the Fall 2014 Senior Design Competition.
Comprehensive Disaster Response: Much more than short-term humanitarian relief
Abrar Ismail and Todd Shea, professionals in the disaster response field in Pakistan, lead a presentation and lively discussion about emergency disaster response and long-term disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction.
Ebola Lecture: Challenge and Crisis for the African Union
The Georgia Institute of Technology Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs will host a talk presented by Ambassador Reuben E. Brigety II, the U.S. Representative to the African Union, titled “Ebola: Challenge and Crisis for the African Union.
Save the Date: 2014 Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference in Mexico City
The 6th annual Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference will take place June 4-5, 2014 at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe, in Mexico City. The Conference will be hosted by the Trade and Logistics Innovation Center, a Georgia Tech/Tecnológico de Monterrey partnership, and co-organized by the Georgia Tech Health & Humanitarian Logistics Center and the MIT Humanitarian Response Lab. This year's conference is made possible by the generous support of the UPS Foundation and Georgia Tech.
