The 2013 Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference held in Kuala Lumpur June 4-5 brought together 113 participants from 25 different countries across the globe to listen and discuss ways to improve operations in the sector under the headline: Adaptive Supply Chains to Increase Resilience.

A new online tool takes the guesswork out of developing individualized catch-up immunization schedules by allowing parents and health care providers to easily create a schedule that ensures missed vaccines and future vaccines are administered according to approved guidelines.

The new Health and Humanitarian Logistics professional education certificate program at Georgia Tech consists of three courses:(1.) Pre-planning Strategy for Health and Humanitarian Organizations(2.) Tactical Decision Making in Public Health and Humanitarian Response(3.) Systems Operations in Health and Humanitarian Response

Georgia Tech systems engineers are using computer models to help resource-poor nations improve 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.