Georgia Institute of Technology The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute

Center for Humanitarian Logistics

VISION

To improve humanitarian logistics (including short or long term, manmade or natural disasters) and ultimately the human condition by system transformations through education, outreach, projects and research.

MISSION IN KEY AREAS

Our vision will be achieved by focusing on the areas of education, outreach, projects and research. Our mission in these areas includes:

  • Education: Increase human resource capacity by training humanitarian logisticians for positions in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), private industry, and the government.
  • Outreach: Foster multi-organizational collaboration to improve effectiveness of humanitarian logistics operations and prevention and be the primary source for information on humanitarian logistics.
  • Research & Applications: Advance science and technology to improve humanitarian logistics planning and response in the long-term, while working closely with NGOs, government, and the private industry to improve their supply chain and logistics operations in the short-term.
  • 2009 CONFERENCE - FEBRUARY 19-20th, 2009
  • The Humanitarian Logistics Conference 2009 will focus on various topics relevant to planning, preparing, and responding to disasters, as well as recovery and mitigation. The main objectives of the conference are to articulate the opportunities and challenges in preparing and responding to disasters, both from a humanitarian and a corporate/economic perspective, to identify important research issues, to create academic awareness for the research opportunities and to establish priorities for non-government organizations (NGOs), corporations, and the government in terms of their strategies, policies, and investments.
  • CENTER SPOTLIGHT
  • Pinar Keskinocak Appointed HSI Associate Director for Research
    Atlanta (November 9, 2009) — Pinar Keskinocak, associate professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Humanitarian Logistics at the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute (SCL), has been appointed to the position of associate director for research for the Health Systems Institute (HSI).
  • This girl uses a ceramic water filter to purify na Alumni Spotlight: Tracy Hawkins & the Ceramic Supply Chain
    Atlanta (May 27, 2009) — After taking a three-week volunteer vacation to Tanzania in 2005, Tracy Hawkins (B IE 1985) was afforded a unique opportunity to combine her background in systems engineering and her passion for pottery. "My industrial engineering background has been key in helping me to support this humanitarian project...The project management aspect and the creative problem solving are the two main skills that I use in my work."
  • Ekici with professors Ekici Wins 2009 SHS Student Paper Competition
    Atlanta (March 19, 2009) — Ph.D. student Ali Ekici won the 2009 Society for Health Systems (SHS) Graduate Student Paper Competition with his paper titled Modeling Influenza Pandemic, Intervention Strategies, and Food Distribution. The paper, which is also co-authored by Professors Julie Swann and Pinar Keskinocak, will be presented by Mr. Ekici at the 2009 Society for Health Systems Conference in Chicago.
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