Center for Health & Humanitarian Systems, Georgia Tech

01/06/2023

🎁 We have several scholarships available for the 2023 HHSCM program, thanks to the generous support of the UPS Foundation. Apply today! The scholarship deadline is January 15th:
https://hhls.scl.gatech.edu/

🌟Course 1 Highlight!🌟

Title: Responsive Supply Chain Design and Operations

Learning Mode: Virtually! Interactive lectures and games with participants around the world.

🧠 Learning Topics:
- Network modeling approaches
- Forecasting techniques
- Strategies for making decisions under uncertainty
- Other data-driven analytical approaches

🗓 Dates:
Course Lecture: April 3 - April 6, 2023
9:30 am - 1 pm daily EST

Introduction Sessions: March 27, 30, and 31, 2023
9:30 am - 11 am EST

Come join us to continue your education in this exciting field!

Learn more about the 3-part program here: https://pe.gatech.edu/certificates/health-humanitarian-supply-chain-management-certificate

Develop the skills to improve your operations with our Health and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management Certificate Program.

12/06/2022

Apply for the Africa Fellowship GHC welcomes young professionals from Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to apply for paid 13 month fellowships with health organizations in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia. Work o...

11/28/2022

11/17/2022

HHL 2022 is happening now! If you were not able to join online or in-person, make sure check the website in the upcoming days for recordings of the conference!

'Strengthening local crisis preparedness and response planning through effective logistics networks'. Nov 17th will showcase exciting new innovations focusing on:

* Drones, which can be used for transporting supplies, surveillance, and search and rescue missions

* Crisis Response Software Platforms:

- Enabling better logistics coordination
- Faster, more efficient procurement

* BioNear - Rapidly deployable medical mobile lab enabling better preparation for epidemic control

* Temperature controlled Mobile Storage Units

Register here:
https://www.humanitarianlogistics.org/2022-hhl-annual-conference/

11/14/2022

Many children around the world have fallen behind with their recommended vaccinations, in part due to .

ISyE Professors Pinar Keskinocak and Joel Sokol, Ph.D. student April (Zhuoting) Yu, and Yao-Hsuan Chen at MSD Invents recently published a paper which provides methods for de novo and catch-up scheduling, with the goal of increasing vaccine coverage.

Pediatric immunization is important for preventing potentially life-threatening diseases in children. Over time, the number of recommended pediatric v…

11/02/2022

Professor Pinar Keskinocak, CHHS Director and faculty member at Georgia Tech, spoke at Health Care Innovations: The Next Big Breakthrough, an online conversation with experts across industry and policy.

Her conversation with Moh Behnam, Partner at McKinsey & Company, covered many health supply chain challenges, such as , , , , as well as the importance of health systems strengthening. Thank you for hosting this important conversation, The Hill! And thank you to Hologic for sponsoring it.

The discussion was moderated by Steve Scully at The Hill

https://thehill.com/events/3676750-health-care-innovations/

In the United States today, many still have limited access to quality health care, all while pandemics and the ramifications of a warming planet present additional health threats. In these challeng…

11/01/2022

Earn your professional education certificate in Health and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management (HHSCM), learn from experts, and grow your network!

HHSCM is designed for practitioners in a variety of organizations, including governmental and non-governmental organizations and the private sector who are active participants in and systems, including and response, long term development, and .

A limited number of scholarships are available thanks to the generous support of the UPS Foundation. The deadline to apply is January 31st, 2023.

Each course can be taken individually or as a part of the full certificate program, which is offered at a reduced fee of $4,200. Register ASAP to reserve your seat!

Apply for scholarship: https://hhls.scl.gatech.edu/

Register: https://chhs.gatech.edu/education/professional-education

06/17/2022

Congratulations to Ph.D. student April (Zhuoting) Yu, the lead author, Professor Pinar Keskinocak, and the wonderful collaborators Lauren Steimle from Georgia Tech H. Milton Stewart School of ISyE and Inci Yildirim from Yale University School of Medicine on their new paper!

"The Impact of Testing Capacity and Compliance With Isolation on COVID-19"

Having an accurate test to detect an infection is important, but unless (i) the test can be deployed early and distributed widely during an outbreak, and (ii) individuals comply with self-isolation when they test positive or experience symptoms, the impact of testing can be limited. Reminder about the importance of "systems thinking," including logistics, behaviors, and education, while developing and deploying pharmaceutical interventions. High test accuracy alone does not guarantee good outcomes.

https://www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S2773-0654(22)00005-0/fulltext

06/13/2022

Congratulations to ISyE Ph.D. student, Arden Baxter, for her recent publication!

The paper, published to the INFORMS Journal on Computing, examines the problem of coordinating heterogeneous resources that are required simultaneously by demands. This subject has many applications, including emergency response. Co-authors are Arden's advisors, CHHS Director Professor Pinar Keskinocak and Professor Mohit Singh, Director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center at Georgia Tech.

Great job, team!

We consider the problem of allocating multiple heterogeneous resources geographically and over time to meet demands that require some subset of the available resource types simultaneously at a spec...

05/31/2022

The CDC is hiring for their data science roles!

Applications for modeling and analytics jobs are now live for the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics.

These applications are closing June 3, so apply now!

Analyst (GS-13) https://www.usajobs.gov/job/655773800

Team lead (GS-14) https://www.usajobs.gov/job/655773600

05/16/2022

The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists is currently recruiting well qualified candidates for the position of Infectious Disease Forecasting Senior Program Analyst within CSTE’s Infectious Disease team.

Learn more and apply here! https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=e81ae9c7-e644-4610-b6d3-397907be3551&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=438944&lang=en_US&source=LI