The Center for Health & Humanitarian Systems (CHHS), led by ISyE professor Pinar Keskinocak, has helped organize the 11th annual conference on Health & Humanitarian Logistics to be held this summer in Kigali, Rwanda. The conference is an open forum to discuss challenges and solutions in global health delivery, disaster preparedness and response, along with global health equity.  The conference is unique in bringing together thought leaders from various part of the world to work on global health problems.

Speakers from Somalia, Rwanda, Iran, and Liberia will be among those gathered to discuss issues surrounding new-born and child health, sexual violence, contraception, and outbreaks and epidemics in African countries.

The conference platform encourages learning and collaboration within and across institutions; promotes system-wide improvements in organizations and the sector as a whole; identifies important research issues; and establishes priorities for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), corporations, and the government in terms of strategies, policies and investments.

Keskinocak is co-founder of the CHHS which is an interdisciplinary research center and Georgia Tech. The Center works to develop future leaders in areas such as health & humanitarian supply chain management and collaborates to improve the effectiveness of global health and humanitarian response delivery.