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News from the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems
Fall 2017 ISSUE
News from CHHS Leadership
CHHS welcomes a new Program Coordinator, Joscelyn Cooper, who brings many years of expertise in event and program management, as well as development and fundraising. Prior to joining CHHS, Joscelyn was with the Piedmont Healthcare Foundation. We are delighted to have Joscelyn on the CHHS Team and look forward to working with her.
We wish the best of luck to two outstanding CHHS leaders, as they embark on new journeys. CHHS Co-Founder, Dr. Julie Swann recently joined NCSU as the Head of the Fitts Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering. Program Manager Meghan Smithgall is exploring new opportunities, following her passion in arts. A resounding “Thank you” to both Dr. Julie Swann and Meghan Smithgall for their commitment and contributions to the accomplishments of CHHS. We wish them much happiness and success, and look forward to continuing engagements and collaborations with them!
Dr. Pinar Keskinocak continues to serve as the Center’s Director while also taking on a new role as the Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Scholarship at the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech.
CHHS Contributes to Disease Eradication Efforts
Since 1986, The Carter Center has led the international campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease, working closely with ministries of health and local communities, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and many others. After smallpox, Guinea worm disease may become the second human disease to be eradicated in history.
CHHS Director Dr. Keskinocak along with former CHHS Co-Director Dr. Julie Swann and former Ph.D. Student Dr. Zihao Li recently gave a presentation on “Guinea Worm Ecology Model & Simulation,” at the 27th Meeting of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication at the Carter Center. The presentation summarized progress on the collaborative efforts between CHHS and the Carter Center experts, including Dr. Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben, on modeling the disease spread and evaluating the effectiveness of potential intervention strategies.
Photo Credit:The Carter Center: D. Hakes. President Carter with the participants.
2017 Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference draws participants from around the world to share solutions and save lives!
June 7-9, 2017 marked the 9th annual Conference on Health & Humanitarian Logistics in Copenhagen, Denmark at the UN City, hosted and co-organized by the UNICEF Supply Division. 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.
Dr. Richard Brennan, Director of Emergency Operations at the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergencies Programme division, delivered the opening keynote and addressed the importance of global, national and local capacity building, cross-sector collaboration, and performance measuring for health and humanitarian response.
The conference was made possible with generous sponsorship from key partners. If your organization is interested in sponsoring the 2018 conference please e-mail us at chhs@gatech.edu.
CHHS continues to offer professional training series in Health & Humanitarian Supply Chain Management to a cohort from around the world
On May 15, 2017, practitioners from 17 different countries, including Bolivia, Colombia, Pakistan, the United States and a dozen countries across Africa, gathered at Georgia Tech’s Global Learning Center for a week to participate in the certificate program in Health & Humanitarian Supply Chain Management (HHSCM) offered by Georgia Tech’s Center for Health & Humanitarian Systems (CHHS).
The participants’ admirable passion for their work motivated them to seek systematic approaches toward improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their organizations, positively impacting the beneficiaries they serve.
For further information on the Certificate in Health & Humanitarian Supply Chain Management, please visit: https://chhs.gatech.edu/professional-education
Senior Design Team CDC Contact Tracing advised by Dr. Pinar Keskinocak
Award Winning Senior Design Teams Advised by Drs. Pinar Keskinocak & Julie Swann
Thirty-one Senior Design teams from Georgia Tech’s Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) completed real-world Capstone projects for the spring 2017 semester.
Out of this group, two teams — CDC Contact Tracing and CDC Smoke, led by Drs. Pinar Keskinocak & Julie Swann were chosen as finalists in the ISyE Best of Senior Design on May 3. The difficulty in narrowing down finalists for the ISyE Best of Senior Design is a testament to the high expectations, tough standards, and overall outstanding quality of our graduating seniors.” Remarks McGinnis.
Spring 2017 also hosted The Capstone Expo, where a panel of judges chose Team CDC Contact Tracing as the ISyE Discipline Award winner.
Teams presented their projects at the spring 2017 Capstone Expo on April 18, 2017. The 31 Senior Design projects involved 234 students,10 faculty advisors, and served a broad range of clients, from manufacturing, operations, logistics, warehousing, energy, financial systems, hospitals, online business, retail, and government.
Senior Design Team CDC Smoke advised by Dr. Julie Swann
Georgia Tech ISYE Student, Ethan Mark, won the INFORMS Poster Competition for “Reducing Discarded Organs and Improving Physician-patient Decision-making.
At the annual Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) conference, a number of faculty members and students from Georgia Tech’s Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) received awards for presentations and papers. Among the winners was student Ethan Mark, who won the INFORMS Poster Competition for “Reducing Discarded Organs and Improving Physician-patient Decision-making via Decision-support Tools and Systems Optimization," in collaboration with Dr. Pinar Keskinocak, Professor David Goldsman; Hannah Smalley (Ph.D. IE 12); Associate Professor Joel Sokol; and Dr. Brian Gurbaxani of the CDC.
From Sick Care to Health Care: Promoting and Maintaining Health and Well-being
The Center for Health & Humanitarian Systems (CHHS) at Georgia Tech recently hosted Health Systems: The Next Generation. The event brought together professionals and scholars from across the fields of healthcare delivery, operations, and education focused on improving local and global health systems. Discussions focused on promoting and maintaining wellness by identifying important trends in health system applications and technologies.
Connecting Through Pastimes!
CHHS and ISYE hosted a suite at the first home football game of the season (9/23). Participants included speakers from the Health Systems: The Next Generation event, alumni, and friends to enjoy the game, connect, continue discussions on health systems of the future and witness a great win! Go Jackets!
Professional Certificate in Health & Humanitarian Supply Chain Management
May 14-19, 2018 At the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.
The program is designed for building skills that improve decision making in preparedness, response operations planning, and system design. It includes interactive components with the systematic approaches, tools, and techniques. For reduced rates for applicants from NGOs or developing countries, please email: J.cooper@isye.gatech.edu
Science and Engineering for Social Good
February 9-11, 2018 at Georgia Tech
The National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE), Georgia Institute of Technology, Stony Brook University, and SUNY LSAMP are co-sponsoring a STEM education conference entitled “Science and Engineering for Social Good.” The conference is aimed at faculty, future faculty, project directors/ coordinators and administrators, with special emphasis on building diverse STEM research & education communities.
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The Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to offer study abroad courses as apart of their Global Engineering Leadership Minor (GELM) Program. The courses in the global engineering minor will prepare students to lead in engineering and technology fields, the private-sector, government agencies, health and humanitarian organizations. Courses offered in the spring include:
- Environmental Technology in the Developing World: Dr. Joe Brown
- International Disaster Reconaissance Studies: Dr. David Frost
- Sustainable Transportation Abroad: Dr. Kari Watkins
Dr. Shatakshee Dhongde, Associate Professor at the School of Economics, recently published a paper “Assessing Multidimensional Deprivation among the Elderly in the USA” as a refereed chapter in the volume on Measuring Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation: Incidence and Determinants in Developed Countries, edited by R. White. The edited collection is part of Palgrave’s series on Global Perspectives on Wealth and Distribution. Dr. Dhongde’s analysis finds that almost 38 percent of the elderly were deprived in at least one dimension, and 13 percent were deprived in two or more dimensions of well-being. The elderly experienced overlapping deprivations in terms of disabilities income poverty and housing burden.
Iris Tien, an assistant professor, and Ph.D. student Chloe Johansen in the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,won a top award at the Resilience Week 2017 conference for their paper on analyzing the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure that support health and humanitarian systems, such as water and power networks.
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