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Professional Education Certificate Program - Scholarships Available!

Scholarships available for the 2023 Health and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management (HHSCM) Professional Education Program. The application deadline is January 15th, 2023The program offers three interactive courses: (1) Responsive Supply Chain Design, (2) Inventory Management, and (3) System Operations. Scholarships are available thanks to the generosity and support of The UPS Foundation


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Student and Alumni Highlights

   

Congratulations, Graduates! 

Congratulations to the recent graduates Arden BaxterYaarit CohenSeyma Guven Kocak, and Kirthana Hampapur for successfully completing their Ph.D. journeys! We will miss you at Georgia Tech, but AmazonCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, and Delta Air Lines are very lucky to have you! We wish you all the best as you continue into new chapters of your lives and careers. Congratulations on your achievements and Go Jackets!

Optimizing Pediatric Vaccine Schedules

April Zhuoting Yu

Congratulations to Ph.D. student April Yu for her paper recently published in Vaccine titled "Flexible analytic model to inform multi-stakeholder pediatric vaccine scheduling decisions." Co-authors include Georgia Tech ISyE Professors Pinar Keskinocak and Joel Sokol, and Ph.D. Alumnus Yao-Hsuan Chen, who is a Director at Merck & Co., Inc. The methods developed by the research team generate personalized recommendations on routine vaccination schedules or catch-up schedules when a child falls behind on one or more vaccinations, with the goal of improving childhood vaccination coverage.


Buse Eylul Oruc Aglar Completes Thesis Proposal

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Congratulations to Buse Eylul Oruc Aglar for successfully completing her Ph.D. thesis proposal! Buse’s thesis addresses important ongoing challenges related to infectious diseases and natural disasters: (1) Modeling the spread of COVID-19, evaluating the impact of interventions, and their impact on health and social outcomes. (2) Graph partitioning and assignment to heterogeneous resources, with applications in post-disaster debris collection. Buse's co-advisors are Professors Mohit Singh and Pinar KeskinocakHer committee members are Professors Ozlem Ergun, Mathieu Dahan, and Lauren Steimle

Akane Fujimoto Presents COVID-19 Dashboard Poster

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Kudos to Akane Fujimoto, Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech H. Milton Stewart School of ISyE, for developing models and dashboards to help with COVID-19 information, such as geographic and sub-population disparities in vaccination rates, and decision-making in the impact of school-based interventions of COVID-19 cases. Akane presented her work at a recent Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Forecasting Meeting. Great work Akane!

 Pengyi Shi Wins Chicago Chapter of INFORMS Researcher of the Year

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Congratulations to Professor Pengyi Shi on her award-winning research, "Delta Coverage: The Analytics Journey to Implement a Novel Nurse Deployment Solution."  Pengyi, and her colleague Professor Jonathan Helm of Indiana University, developed and implemented a suite of data and decision analytics to support a novel internal travel nursing program in light of the nursing shortage and increased demand on the largest hospital system in Indiana. During a 5-month “dry run," they estimated that their tool can lead to an annualized reduction of 4% understaffing and 3% misallocation of resource nurses with a saving of over $400K.
Pengyi Shi (ISyE Ph.D. 2014) is an Associate Professor at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. Her research interests include data-driven modeling and decision-making in healthcare and service operations. 

Biniam Tufa Presents at Leadership Program

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Biniam Tufa, Pharmacist and Health Supply Chain Expert with the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health, presented on "Leveraging Advanced Demand Planning Techniques to Improve Informed Decision Making in RDF Pharmaceuticals Supply Chain Management" at the 4th Leadership Incubation Program for Health (LIPH)The program was organized by the Ethiopian Pharmaceuticals Supply Servicean Ethiopian government agency. Biniam received his certificate in Health and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management (HHSCM) in 2022. Congratulations on your achievements Biniam!

CHHS News 

Rethinking Supply Chain Management and Resilience?

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A recent paper “A Structured Overview of Insights and Opportunities for Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience,” co-authored by CHHS Co-Founders, Professors Ozlem Ergun and Pinar Keskinocak, and Professor Wallace Hopp, published in an IISE Transactions special issue, presents a basic framework for enhancing supply chain resilience. The authors summarized practical insights and research opportunities, drawing from recent The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine studies they participated in, as well as from the growing body of literature, highlighting the importance of visibility, mitigation, preparedness, and response measures.

CHHS Affiliate Spotlight

   

Che-Yi Liao Awarded Prize and Fellowship at Medical Decision-Making Conference

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Che-Yi Liao, advised by CHHS Affiliate Professor Gian-Gabriel Garcia, was awarded the Stephen Pauker Award for Outstanding Presentation in Quantitative Methods and Theoretical Developments (QMTD) at the 2022 Society for Medical Decision-Making ConferenceChe-Yi was also awarded the George Family Fellowship, which recognizes excellence in research in the healthcare systems and analytics area. His winning presentation was titled “A Novel Spatio-Temporal Modeling Framework for Improving Public Health Surveillance: An Application to Opioid-related Drug Overdose Deaths." Congratulations, Che-Yi! 

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