{"671079":{"#nid":"671079","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fostering Empathy in Diverse Team Interactions: A TTL Initiative","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Transformative Teaching and Learning (TTL) Strategic Initiative calls us to: \u0027Promote innovation in teaching and learning practices by providing faculty support to innovate and scale transformative teaching practices and creating conditions for all students to engage in meaningful experiential learning.\u0027\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn support of the Transformative Teaching and Learning strategic plan initiative, instructors were invited to apply for the 2023 TTL Innovation Incubator grant to receive financial and programmatic support to plan, implement, and evaluate a transformative teaching project. The pilot round \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eidentified\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E 11 projects that feature transformative course redesign through the integration of experiential learning and high-impact practices.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOne of the projects that was selected is co-led by Dima Nazzal from \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EISyE\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E and Kyla Ross from BME and the Provost\u2019s Office. Nazzal is the primary faculty instructor for the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EISyE\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E Senior Design, a capstone design course, and Ross is the Assistant Vice Provost for Advocacy and Conflict Resolution and teaches a BME course in Systems Physiology.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EStudent success in both senior design and systems physiology - and many others - relies on team collaborations\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHowever, conflicts that arise within teams negatively \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eimpacting\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E student motivation, creativity, and productivity, often leaving students with lasting negative impacts that may bias future group interactions in the classroom and beyond.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAfter attending the TTL kick-off workshop in the summer, Nazzal and Ross decided to join forces to investigate ways in which they can equip students enrolled in their courses with strategies for effective and empathetic interactions within diverse teams. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eskill\u0026nbsp; is\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E essential for creating a positive learning environment, particularly for those students from underrepresented minority groups. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cAs one of 11 High Impact Practices, collaborative assignments have the potential to transform students\u2019 ability to solve problems and learn from peers with different life experiences and perspectives. This project investigates several key levers to enhance the group project experience\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201d,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E says Kate Williams, Interim Director of Transformative Teaching and Learning Faculty Initiatives.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E ISYE 4106 Senior Design and BMED 3100 Systems Physiology, Nazzal and Ross are implementing a unique learning experience to assess the effectiveness of two team-based approaches: providing short videos with helpful tips for handling difficult conversations and introducing a 360-degree feedback tool that encourages peer evaluations with guided questions\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe goal of these enhancements is to provide students with the language and emotional maturity for constructive feedback, which is at the core of all transformative teaching and learning \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eframeworks..\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E By empowering our students to engage in and reflect on tough conversations in a psychologically safe way, we have the potential to maximize their learning and instill transferable and transformative skills for years to come.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cOur goal is to create an environment where students feel confident in constructive discussions, conflict resolution, and offering valuable feedback. These skills are increasingly important in today\u0027s diverse and collaborative world,\u201d Nazzal and Ross wrote in their grant proposal.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThrough this project, they \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eanticipate\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E seeing improved teamwork, reduced conflicts, and higher satisfaction with team dynamics. Stay tuned for updates on this exciting project as they work towards fostering a positive learning environment and instilling essential skills in our students.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Transformative Teaching and Learning (TTL) Strategic Initiative calls us to: \u0027Promote innovation in teaching and learning practices by providing faculty support to innovate and scale transformative teaching practices and creating conditions for all students to engage in meaningful experiential learning.\u0027\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Teamwork makes the dream work: Enhancing team collaboration skills for transformative learning "}],"uid":"36481","created_gmt":"2023-11-15 19:35:12","changed_gmt":"2023-11-27 20:02:00","author":"nesparza7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672395":{"id":"672395","type":"image","title":"Kyla Turpin Ross and Dima Nazzel","body":null,"created":"1700076582","gmt_created":"2023-11-15 19:29:42","changed":"1700076690","gmt_changed":"2023-11-15 19:31:30","alt":"Kyla Turpin Ross and Dima Nazzel","file":{"fid":"255626","name":"Fostering Empathy in Diverse Team Interactions A TTL Initiative (1).png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/15\/Fostering%20Empathy%20in%20Diverse%20Team%20Interactions%20A%20TTL%20Initiative%20%281%29.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/15\/Fostering%20Empathy%20in%20Diverse%20Team%20Interactions%20A%20TTL%20Initiative%20%281%29.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1434645,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/11\/15\/Fostering%20Empathy%20in%20Diverse%20Team%20Interactions%20A%20TTL%20Initiative%20%281%29.png?itok=ifM2v-SR"}}},"media_ids":["672395"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"670517":{"#nid":"670517","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Yuming Sun, Awarded Seth Bonder Scholarship for Outstanding Research in Health Services","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/isye.gatech.edu\/users\/yuming-sun\u0022\u003EYuming Sun\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student studying Operations Research at the H. 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The award recognizes her long service both to the Institute and to her field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak has long served as a leader with the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). A fellow with the institute, she has served as president, vice president of membership and professional recognition, and is the co-founder and former president of the INFORMS Section on Public Programs, Service, and Needs, and the president of the INFORMS Health Applications Society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech she has also served as the College of Engineering Advance Professor for six years and was a leading voice over the past three years of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to working with the Georgia Department of Public Health, she served on the Institute\u0026rsquo;s Covid task force helping to establish an institutional approach to the pandemic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s an honor, first of all, to have had the opportunity to serve,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;Our communities at Georgia Tech and beyond are wonderful, so to be recognized among all of these outstanding contributors is a great honor.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak\u0026rsquo;s research focuses on the application of operations research and management science with society impact, particularly regarding health and humanitarian applications, supply chain management, and logistics. She is the director of ISyE\u0026rsquo;s Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering have helped quantify the effectiveness of one of the most commonly-debated mitigation measures taken across the country.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA new study published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBMC Public Health\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;shows that hybrid learning utilizing alternating school days for children offers a significant reduction in community disease spread. Total closure in favor of remote learning, however, offers little additional advantage over that hybrid option.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis research will help decision-makers in the event of another Covid-19 outbreak or one from a similar infectious disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Early in the pandemic when school closures were becoming the norm, many debated the pros and cons of this measure,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/strong\u003E, the William W. George Chair and Professor in ISyE and the principal investigator on the study. \u0026ldquo;Do we get enough benefit to offset the social costs and impacts on education? This research shows that there is a benefit in infection reduction, especially in the absence of effective pharmaceutical interventions, and most of the benefits can be attained with a hybrid approach.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis study is particularly relevant for the early days of an infectious disease outbreak when policymakers face the difficult decision of enacting school closures in their respective districts. Using an agent-based simulation model of Covid-19 spread, researchers projected the impact of various school reopening strategies: complete closure, alternating school days where one cohort attended in person twice a week and another cohort on the opposite days, younger children only, and regular (i.e. all students return to in-person learning).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResults showed that compared to schools reopening with regular attendance, the percentage of the population infected reduced by 13, 11, 9, and 6 percent with each respective strategy. The conclusions were that some level of closure \u0026ndash; younger children only, alternating days, and completely remote \u0026ndash; offers significant reduction in community-wide infections. The benefit of complete closure over a hybrid approach, however, was minimal.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe assumption in all cases was that individuals who contracted the virus would remain at home.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The additional benefit of complete school closure compared to hybrid was relatively small,\u0026rdquo; Keskinocak said. \u0026ldquo;The implementation of an alternating day model can be challenging but could have public health benefits early in the pandemic or during a new wave, providing social and learning benefits as well.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther challenges remain that were not investigated in this particular research \u0026ndash; costs on families in the event of school closures, learning tradeoffs, properly equipping students for virtual learning, and others. This is just one element of many for policymakers to consider, Keskinocak said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECITATION:\u0026nbsp;Arden Baxter, Buse Eylul Oruc, John Asplund, Pinar Keskinocak, Nicoleta Serban.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12889-022-12910-w\u0022\u003EEvaluating Scenarios for School Reopening under Covid-19\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBMC Public Health\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. 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To learn how to get involved, contact ISyE\u0026rsquo;s Senior Director of Development Nancy Sandlin at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nancy.sandlin@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enancy.sandlin@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExplore all award winners below.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGraduate Awards for Excellence in Research\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Shabbir Ahmed Research Excellence Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJiaming Liang (Optimization)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESebastian Perez-Salazar (Optimization)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Atlanta Air Cargo Association Research Excellence Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJana Boerger (Supply Chain Engineering)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Robert Goodell Brown Research Excellence Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELiyan Xie (Data Science and Statistics)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Anderson-Interface Research Excellence Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmin Gholami (Energy and Sustainable Systems)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Thos and Clair Muller Research Excellence Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZhaowei She (Health Analytics and Health Systems)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Angela P. and Reed J. 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Mello Chairs in ISyE","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s H. Milton School of Industrial Systems and Engineering announced two new appointments to the Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Chair. Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJing Li\u003C\/strong\u003E and Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ETurgay Ayer\u003C\/strong\u003E both earned the designation earlier this year, which recognizes faculty leaders in the field of health care delivery operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELi, also core faculty in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECenter for Machine Learning at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E, currently focuses on the developments of machine learning algorithms for precision medicine specifically with regards to the brain. She leverages collaborations with radiologists and neurologists to investigate brain diseases like cancer, Alzheimer\u0026rsquo;s, and post-traumatic headache after brain injury.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToday, technology advances have produced more data than ever before, imaging, genomics, mobile health data, etc., which allow researchers to develop more personalized algorithms for diagnosis and prognosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;What disease do they have? How severe is it? How will the disease change in the future? Are they on the track of recovery, or are they going to get worse,\u0026rdquo; Li said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing the available datasets from imaging, genomics, clinical records, and mobile apps \u0026amp; wearables, they are building personalized models for diagnosis and treatment in each of these areas that can lead to early detection and more effective outcomes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAyer, who also holds an appointment from Emory Medical School and serves as a senior advisor to CDC, focuses on health care analytics and socially responsible business analytics with an emphasis on practice-focused research. 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Or 35?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;At what age should you transfer from a less intensive screening to another? Is that cost effective? And what if we are solving this problem for the United States versus sub-Saharan Africa where resources are more limited? 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Many of the participants were in-person, but teams also included online representatives who were available to talk to online judges from all over the world. Of the 118 teams participating, 23 teams were from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was wonderful to see the senior design students develop and present their projects in person. They endured another stressful semester, but remarkably balanced quality and rigor with health and wellbeing,\u0026rdquo; said Director of Professional Practice \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/dima-nazzal\u0022\u003EDima Nazzal\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;Kudos to them for overcoming the challenges and delivering excellent work for a wide range of clients including government agencies, small non-profits, and large corporations. Congratulations to the faculty advisors, who coached the teams and kept them motivated and focused. A special recognition and appreciation to our Director of Technical Communication,\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/brandy-blake\u0022\u003E Brandy Blake\u003C\/a\u003E, for teaching the students how to communicate their engineering designs clearly and succinctly\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESenior Design team \u0026ldquo;Provision with a Vision\u0026rdquo; won the Capstone Expo award for Best ISyE Project. They worked with the on-board services group at Delta Air Lines to develop a data-driven methodology that determines the optimal amount of beverage items to load on a flight. The project motivation came from unused items adding extra weight to the aircraft resulting in excess fuel costs and carbon emissions. The team delivered an optimization model that takes into consideration passenger demand as well as an impact analysis tool which allows Delta to visualize how small changes in beverage quantities can have significant economic and environmental impact across the system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team included Anneliese Conrad, Carolina Howell, Niral Jagtap, Ellie Johnson, Nico Knutzen, Sofia Laval, Brad Peterson, and Libbee Stallone. They were advised by Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/anton-kleywegt\u0022\u003EAnton Kleywegt\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom among the ISyE teams, three were selected as finalists for the Best of ISyE Senior Design Competition, which was held on December 14, 2021. Team \u0026ldquo;Shoulda Put A R(INGO)n i(T)\u0026rdquo; was selected as the first-place winner.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam \u0026ldquo;Shoulda Put A R(INGO)n i(T)\u0026rdquo; partnered with Novelis, an aluminum manufacturing company, to improve ingot availability in its Oswego, NY, facility. The goal of the project was to ensure that when a customer makes an order, Novelis could supply the right ingots at the right time on hand to immediately start production. The team\u0026rsquo;s solution was to build an ingot \u0026ldquo;supermarket\u0026rdquo; that would increase ingot availability from 50% to 90% and reduce overall lead time by up to 40%. To achieve this, the team created an optimization model that recommended the best replenishment strategy for each ingot SKU and used a simulation model to measure the impact of the supermarket on the production process. With this new tool, Novelis can dramatically increase their operational efficiency and save millions of dollars per year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam Members included Tobin Abraham, Joseph Abrokwa, Elvin Chirackal, Joseph Cochran, Lorenzo Guerrero, Grace Anne Muller, and Tim Ryan. They were advised by Part-Time Lecturer and Tennenbaum Institute Principal Research Engineer\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/douglas-bodner\u0022\u003E Douglas Bodner\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFinalist team \u0026ldquo;Can\u0026rsquo;t Stop, Won\u0026rsquo;t Stop, Bus Stop\u0026rdquo; worked with the Atlanta Department of Transportation (ATLDOT), a recently formed government entity tasked with promoting transportation infrastructure. The team worked to provide ATLDOT with a data-driven methodology to allocate funding to bus stop improvements and a platform for closer collaboration with MARTA. Only 7% of bus stops (out of nearly 4,000) in Atlanta have shelters, which provide riders with proper seating, protection from weather, and ADA accessibility. The team\u0026rsquo;s solution combines process design with an interactive web tool and a greedy heuristic web app. Through the team\u0026rsquo;s solution, an additional 1.5 million trips per year will now originate at a sheltered stop. The City of Atlanta voted to back the project with a $3.4 million non-fungible funding source, and the team will present their design to the new mayor in January.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam members included Soobin Baek, Aaron Brown, Ananya Ghose, Sanghwa Lee, Sung Kyu Lee, Alea Legg, Hetu Patel, Tejas Santanam. They were advised by ISyE Lecturer \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/gamze-tokol-goldsman\u0022\u003EGamze Tokol-Goldsman\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFinalist team \u0026ldquo;Keep it Simply\u0026rdquo; worked with The Coca-Cola Company to minimize the overall cost of the distribution network of two recently acquired dairy brands: Fairlife and Simply Oat \u0026amp; Almond. The team provided a data-driven method of formulating network expansion plans and determining safety stock levels by building and validating a mathematical optimization model that recommends not only the optimal distribution center (DC) opening location and timeline, but also the capacity expansion and safety stock level at each DC over a given horizon. This provided an annual value of several million dollars across the two dairy brands. To help Coca-Cola design the network expansion of any brand in the future, the team generalized the model to a standardized template wrapped within a user-friendly graphical user interface with three different model options.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam Members included Joseph Chanin, Yizhi Huang, Minrui Liang, Yufei Liu, Naren Reddy, Xinran Yu, and Emily Zhang. They were advised by Leo and Louise Benatar Early Career Professor and Associate Professor\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/alejandro-toriello\u0022\u003E Alejandro Toriello\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, two teams received honorable mentions and were contenders for the Best of ISyE Senior Design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam \u0026ldquo;Panic! at the Cisco\u0026rdquo; worked with Cisco on its Printed Circuit Board Assembly Component Allocation. Team Members included Anjana Anandkumar, Udisha Bhattacharyya, Grace Gilpatric, Katie Landers, Kat Pospichel, Briana Sims, Tan Tanthien, and Anna (Tu) Vu. They were advised by William W. George Chair and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/pinar-keskinocak\u0022\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam \u0026ldquo;The Bee\u0026rsquo;s Knees\u0026rdquo; worked with Smith + Nephew on its production planning. Team Members included Leon Breaux, Sara Costello, Emma Jones, James McGregor, Georgia Warnock, and Delaney Wastler. 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This award is given by the Women in OR\/MS (WORMS) Forum of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) to celebrate and recognize a person who has significantly contributed to the advancement and recognition of women in OR\/MS.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am truly grateful and humbled for this huge honor,\u0026rdquo; said Keskinocak. \u0026ldquo;I am thankful to all my colleagues, students, friends, and family who have supported me and many others over the years, and it is the greatest gift for me to support others, even if only in a small way.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThroughout her career, Keskinocak has been a leader in her field and has advocated for the advancement of women and minorities in engineering. She is an INFORMS Fellow, has served as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news\/pinar-keskinocak-assumes-informs-presidency\u0022\u003Epresident of INFORMS\u003C\/a\u003E and the WORMS Forum, established the WORMS Award, and served as the co-founder and president of the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group to help junior faculty develop their networks and grow professionally. During her term as INFORMS president, she helped further diversity, equity, and inclusion within the organization. She also spearheaded the establishment of a DEI Ambassadors Program to create a culture of inclusivity for all members within the INFORMS community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Keskinocak is the co-founder and director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chhs.gatech.edu\/about\/chhs\u0022\u003ECenter for Health and Humanitarian Systems\u003C\/a\u003E, and she has served as a College of Engineering (COE) \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/advance.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EADVANCE Professor\u003C\/a\u003E and interim associate dean for faculty development and scholarship. She has also made significant contributions to numerous programs at COE and the Institute, which include the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/advance.gatech.edu\/demystifyingtech\u0022\u003EDemystifying Tech Series\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.advance.gatech.edu\/adaptive-leadership-workshop\u0022\u003EAdaptive Leadership Workshop\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\/DIFellowsProgram\u0022\u003EDiversity and Inclusion Fellows Program\u003C\/a\u003E. In addition, she was instrumental in the establishment of the COE diversity and inclusion council, resume speed meeting workshops, and other initiatives focused on equity, diversity, and excellence.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak has made a lasting impression on many of the people she has worked with.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t know how my career and life would have turned out had I not had the chance to meet and work with Dr. Keskinocak,\u0026rdquo; said one person in their nomination letter. \u0026ldquo;I do know how grateful I am I did have that chance. 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One of his projects, a collaboration with Piedmont Heart Institute, proposes a surgical planning framework to treat aortic stenosis, a severe heart disease caused by the narrowing of the aortic valve. The current procedure, which involves inserting a stent, is a standardized treatment with limited customization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our ambition is to personalize this surgery procedure for the specific patient,\u0026rdquo; said Chen. \u0026ldquo;We try to understand through computer simulations and 3D printing experiments which surgery procedure is the best for the patient.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis work across multiple research areas has earned him the Ellis R. Ott Scholarship from the American Society for Quality, as well as many first-place awards at student paper competitions. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/pinar-keskinocak\u0022\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/a\u003E, William W. George Chair and professor, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/dima-nazzal\u0022\u003EDima Nazzal\u003C\/a\u003E, Director of Professional Practice. They worked alongside Ph.D. students Akane Fujimoto and Tyler Perini in collaboration with the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There is a lot variability in different regions of the state, so we wanted to take a closer look from an equity perspective,\u0026rdquo; said Keskinocak in the article.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs of June 3, the dashboard indicated that vaccination rates among white residents are higher than those of Black residents in all large metro counties as well as around 70% of all Georgia counties. In addition, vaccination coverage among adults was lower among those living in counties with lower socioeconomic status and with higher percentages of households with children, single parents, and persons with disabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can read the entire article about their findings \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/georgia-covid-19-vaccine-dashboard-breaks-down-vaccination-trends-race-county-level\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew findings say that although Covid-19 vaccinations are gradually increasing nationwide, disparities exist among vaccination rates across race and geographic areas among Georgia\u0026rsquo;s counties.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New findings say that although Covid-19 vaccinations are gradually increasing nationwide, disparities exist among vaccination rates across race and geographic areas among Georgia\u2019s counties."}],"uid":"35757","created_gmt":"2021-06-29 19:31:29","changed_gmt":"2021-07-08 14:06:24","author":"goberst3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648448":{"id":"648448","type":"image","title":"Dima Nazzal, Akane Fujimoto, and Tyler Perini","body":null,"created":"1624994932","gmt_created":"2021-06-29 19:28:52","changed":"1624994932","gmt_changed":"2021-06-29 19:28:52","alt":"Dima Nazzal, Akane Fujimoto, and Tyler Perini","file":{"fid":"246172","name":"Covid-19 Dashboard.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Covid-19%20Dashboard.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Covid-19%20Dashboard.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":368731,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Covid-19%20Dashboard.jpg?itok=jRPB-r8G"}}},"media_ids":["648448"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), as well as Julie Swann, department head of North Carolina State University\u0026rsquo;s Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers evaluated how many Covid-19 cases could be avoided in North Carolina if more people get vaccinated and continue to follow mask and physical distancing guidelines. They used an agent-based model originally developed at Georgia Tech for pandemic flu that was later adapted to Covid-19 and modified to test additional scenarios.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The main takeaway from the paper is that while the increasing vaccine coverage in the U.S. has a positive impact, we are not really there yet. We still need to follow preventive measures such as mask wearing,\u0026rdquo; said Keskinocak in the article.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESwann concurred, saying, \u0026ldquo;Current variants are more infectious, and there are still locations with less than 30% of the population vaccinated.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can read more about their findings \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/648393\/modeling-finds-relaxing-covid-19-safety-protocols-during-vaccination-period-risky\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe continued practice of mask wearing and social distancing during ongoing vaccinations could help stem a potential surge in Covid-19 cases, particularly as more infectious variants emerge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The continued practice of mask wearing and social distancing during ongoing vaccinations could help stem a potential surge in Covid-19 cases, particularly as more infectious variants emerge."}],"uid":"35757","created_gmt":"2021-06-29 19:37:21","changed_gmt":"2021-07-08 14:06:01","author":"goberst3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648450":{"id":"648450","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinocak and Julie Swann","body":null,"created":"1624995309","gmt_created":"2021-06-29 19:35:09","changed":"1624995309","gmt_changed":"2021-06-29 19:35:09","alt":"Pinar Keskinocak and Julie Swann","file":{"fid":"246173","name":"Pinar Keskinocak and Julie Swann.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pinar%20Keskinocak%20and%20Julie%20Swann.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pinar%20Keskinocak%20and%20Julie%20Swann.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":452311,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Pinar%20Keskinocak%20and%20Julie%20Swann.jpg?itok=rJ4zsQQL"}}},"media_ids":["648450"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. 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The Foundation recognized the work of Ayer and ISyE Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/yingying-xiao\u0022\u003EJade Yingying Xiao\u003C\/a\u003E, along with their partners from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital \u0026ndash; led by Assistant Professor Jagpreet Chhatwal, and Boston Medical Center \u0026ndash; led by Associate Professor Benjamin Linus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELast spring as the Covid-19 pandemic was taking hold in the United States, this multi-institutional team devised the widely used \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.covid19sim.org\/\u0022\u003ECovid-19 Simulator\u003C\/a\u003E, which helps inform public health responses to the pandemic on the state and local level. 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She will share her experience working across Africa on meningitis, pneumonia, Ebola vaccine trials, surveillance and prevention projects, as well as in China on Beijing\u0026#39;s SARS emergency response, and the importance of collaboration in building strong supply chains and health systems around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMichelle Nunn has spent 25 years in civic and public service, as a social entrepreneur, a nonprofit CEO and a candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia. Michelle will share reflections on CARE\u0026rsquo;s work fighting global poverty and providing lifesaving assistance in emergencies such as the Syrian refugee crisis, and ongoing turmoil in Yemen and Sudan, as well as disaster response efforts in places affecting by natural disasters due to El Ni\u0026ntilde;o.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Sanjay Gupta is the multiple Emmy award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, plays an integral role in CNN\u0026#39;s reporting on health and medical news for all of CNN\u0026#39;s shows domestically and internationally, and contributes to CNN.com. His medical training and public health policy experience distinguishes his reporting from war zones and natural disasters, as well as on a range of medical and scientific topics, including the recent Ebola outbreak, brain injury, disaster recovery, health care reform, fitness, military medicine, and HIV\/AIDS. 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You may\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003Eregister now for the conference at:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022chhs.gatech.edu\/conference\/registration\/\u0022\u003Echhs.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022chhs.gatech.edu\/conference\/registration\/\u0022\u003Egatech.edu\/conference\/registration\/\u003C\/a\u003E. *\u003Cem\u003ESee note below on registration reimbursement\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlenary panel topics will focus on the below topics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStrengthening Public Health Systems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EManaging Complex Supply Chains in Refugee Crisis Response\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatching Supply with Demand in Emergency Response\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 2016 conference\u0026nbsp;is made possible by generous support from the UPS Foundation (now for the 8th year).\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ETO SPONSOR THE 2016 CONFERENCE, \u003C\/strong\u003Eplease contact Meghan Smithgall at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:msmithgall@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emsmithgall@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe hope you will join us in August!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E*Note that the first two registrants from an NGO (for example, the first two employees from UNHCR (from any country) or other NGO) may apply for \u003Cstrong\u003Ereimbursement\u003C\/strong\u003E of the registration fee following the conference. Only current degree students with accepted posters are eligible for limited financial assistance and registration reimbursement ($250 for travel within U.S. and $500 if traveling from outside of U.S. Click \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hhscenter.gatech.edu\/conference\/posters\/\u0022\u003Ehere \u003C\/a\u003Efor details). 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) have been honored with Institute-level teaching awards from the Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Professional Practice \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/dima-nazzal\u0022\u003EDima Nazzal\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is responsible for project-based learning in ISyE, including the Capstone Senior Design program. She has been awarded one of two \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ctl.gatech.edu\/faculty\/awards\/curriculum\u0022\u003ECurriculum Innovation Awards\u003C\/a\u003E, which recognizes faculty \u0026ldquo;who are improving the quality of education at Georgia Tech through pedagogical and curricular innovation.\u0026rdquo; Nazzal specifically received the award for her development of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news\/new-cornerstone-class-preps-students-senior-design-and-beyond\u0022\u003EISyE Cornerstone Design course\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/dima-nazzal\/cornerstone-and-capstone-design\/\u0022\u003ECornerstone Design class\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026ndash; first offered in the Fall 2018 semester \u0026ndash; is an early design course focusing on framing a problem without solving it. The course lays the foundation for design thinking using a project-based learning approach, interactive problem-solving sessions, and the goldmine of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/capstone.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Epast Senior Design Capstone projects\u003C\/a\u003E from past years that ISyE has kept organized in a database.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENazzal has explained that the goal of the class is for students to develop, through multiple diverse projects, key design skills, such as how to develop a solution hypothesis from a vague need by methodically dissecting the problem and analyzing relevant information. Students learn that there is not one way to solve a design problem because design generally involves tradeoffs between competing objectives under uncertainty. They work in teams with a rotating leadership role, so each student experiences the challenges and rewards of being a project leader. They learn how to effectively and succinctly communicate the motivation for solving a problem and the scientific evidence supporting their design solution hypothesis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We realized that we need to have a proactive approach to addressing the design skill gaps we see in our students during their Senior Design projects,\u0026rdquo; Nazzal said. \u0026ldquo;Some faculty have cynically said, \u0026lsquo;In Senior Design, we\u0026rsquo;re throwing the students into the water to learn how to swim.\u0026rsquo; We introduced Cornerstone Design to teach our students to not only survive the deep waters of design problems but also to skillfully navigate the turbulence as well. Cornerstone Design has a set of simple and inexpensive features that have proven to be effective and replicable. I am honored to receive this recognition, and I look forward to continue working with my colleagues to improve and innovate.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Being the No. 1-ranked industrial engineering program in the U.S. makes ISyE a leader in curriculum development. Cornerstone Design structure and content is readily available to any industrial engineering department that is looking to expand its curriculum \u0026ndash; and consequently their student \u0026ndash; development,\u0026rdquo; Nazzal added.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Nazzal received the 2015 Georgia Tech Women in Engineering Outstanding Teacher Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA. 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Keskinocak shared her insights and her team\u0026rsquo;s research results with many media outlets and decision makers in public health.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow Keskinocak has been called on to lend her expertise to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www8.nationalacademies.org\/pa\/projectview.aspx?key=52345\u0022\u003ECommittee on Addressing Issues of Vaccine Distribution and Supply Chains to Advance Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Response\u003C\/a\u003E. This ad hoc committee formed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will examine \u0026ldquo;supply chain and distribution challenges related to vaccines and vaccinations during the COVID-19 response and explore their implications for pandemic and seasonal influenza.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong other responsibilities, the committee will review pandemic vaccine manufacturing during the H1N1, SARS, Ebola, and Covid-19 outbreaks; identify critical gaps in vaccine delivery on both a regional and global basis; and examine how Covid-19 vaccine manufacture and distribution may have important implications for the manufacture and distribution of flu vaccines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECloser to home, Keskinocak serves on Georgia Tech President\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u0026Aacute;\u003C\/em\u003Engel Cabrera\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/news\/634593\/georgia-techs-recovery-task-force-guide-return-standard-operations\u0022\u003ERecovery Task Force\u003C\/a\u003E, a group of leaders from across campus formed to help guide the Institute\u0026rsquo;s eventual return to normal \u0026ndash; and safe \u0026ndash; operations. The task force has been modeling different return scenarios using guidelines set forth by federal and state public health agencies, as well as the University System of Georgia. In March, Institute leadership announced plans for the Fall 2021 semester to see resumption of fully normal operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmong other tasks, the committee will examine Covid-19 vaccine dissemination\u0026nbsp;both regionally and globally, with an eye toward implications for flu vaccine distribution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Among other tasks, the committee will examine Covid-19 vaccine dissemination\u00a0both regionally and globally with an eye toward implications for flu vaccine distribution."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2021-04-15 16:11:11","changed_gmt":"2021-04-20 19:57:33","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"639348":{"id":"639348","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinocak","body":null,"created":"1600704217","gmt_created":"2020-09-21 16:03:37","changed":"1600704217","gmt_changed":"2020-09-21 16:03:37","alt":"Pinar Keskinocak","file":{"fid":"243091","name":"Pinar head shot Best_Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pinar%20head%20shot%20Best_Square_4.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pinar%20head%20shot%20Best_Square_4.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":948595,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Pinar%20head%20shot%20Best_Square_4.jpg?itok=n6I_5iDu"}}},"media_ids":["639348"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/wx8gwx\/the-engineer-using-science-to-build-a-better-world-after-coronavirus","title":"The Engineer Using Science to Build a Better World After Coronavirus"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1239","name":"Pinar Keskinocak"},{"id":"168677","name":"chhs"},{"id":"187577","name":"NASEM"},{"id":"498","name":"Flu Vaccine"},{"id":"729","name":"pandemic"},{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;H. 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This requires coordination on a national and sometimes global scale, which has been lacking in many of the complex emergencies in the past, including during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can read the entire article about Keskinocak\u0026rsquo;s work \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/wx8gwx\/the-engineer-using-science-to-build-a-better-world-after-coronavirus\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"For its 2020 Humans of the Year series, Motherboard selected 20 scientists, engineers, and visionaries who have done remarkable work to make the world a better place."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor its 2020 Humans of the Year series, \u003Cem\u003EMotherboard\u003C\/em\u003E selected 20 scientists, engineers, and visionaries who have done remarkable work to make the world a better place.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"For its 2020 Humans of the Year series, Motherboard selected 20 scientists, engineers, and visionaries who have done remarkable work to make the world a better place."}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2020-12-29 19:20:02","changed_gmt":"2021-01-04 15:39:08","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-12-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-12-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"639348":{"id":"639348","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinocak","body":null,"created":"1600704217","gmt_created":"2020-09-21 16:03:37","changed":"1600704217","gmt_changed":"2020-09-21 16:03:37","alt":"Pinar Keskinocak","file":{"fid":"243091","name":"Pinar head shot Best_Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pinar%20head%20shot%20Best_Square_4.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pinar%20head%20shot%20Best_Square_4.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":948595,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Pinar%20head%20shot%20Best_Square_4.jpg?itok=n6I_5iDu"}}},"media_ids":["639348"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"},{"id":"729","name":"pandemic"},{"id":"186517","name":"person of the year"},{"id":"102191","name":"health and humanitarian systems"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laurie.haigh@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELaurie Haigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"642282":{"#nid":"642282","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Covid-19 Interventions Can Cut Virus Infections, Severe Outcomes, and Healthcare Needs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new paper authored by ISyE\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;William W. George Chair and Professor Pinar Keskinocak;\u0026nbsp;Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Professor Nicoleta Serban;\u0026nbsp;Ph.D. students Arden Baxter and\u0026nbsp;Buse Eylul Oruc;\u0026nbsp;and Metron\u0026nbsp;Research Scientist John Asplund confirms what public health experts have been asserting:\u0026nbsp;Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place, quarantines, and other steps taken to control the SARS-CoV-2 virus can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, cumulative infections, and overall deaths.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing data from the state of Georgia, the study determined that a combination of non-pharmaceutical interventions, with various levels of compliance that change over time, could in some instances cut cumulative infections in half and reduce the peak number of infections to about a third of what could have been seen, \u0026ldquo;flattening the peak\u0026rdquo; to avoid overwhelming a state\u0026rsquo;s healthcare system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can read a complete analysis of the ISyE team\u0026#39;s findings \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/640466\/covid-19-interventions-can-cut-virus-infections-severe-outcomes-and-healthcare-needs\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a new paper, a team of ISyE researchers confirm that non-pharmaceutical interventions can help slow the spread of Covid-19.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In a new paper, a team of ISyE researchers confirm that non-pharmaceutical interventions can help slow the spread of Covid-19."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-12-18 20:25:57","changed_gmt":"2020-12-28 16:59:32","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"642280":{"id":"642280","type":"image","title":"Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place\u00a0can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, cumulative infections, and overall deaths.","body":null,"created":"1608321153","gmt_created":"2020-12-18 19:52:33","changed":"1608321153","gmt_changed":"2020-12-18 19:52:33","alt":"Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place\u00a0can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, cumulative infections, and overall deaths.","file":{"fid":"243987","name":"Stay Home.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Stay%20Home.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Stay%20Home.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":595303,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Stay%20Home.jpg?itok=T69sdW1y"}},"636594":{"id":"636594","type":"image","title":"Social Distancing on Campus","body":null,"created":"1593459032","gmt_created":"2020-06-29 19:30:32","changed":"1593459032","gmt_changed":"2020-06-29 19:30:32","alt":"Two students walk around campus, several feet apart, with masks on.","file":{"fid":"242190","name":"20C10006-P1-020.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20C10006-P1-020.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20C10006-P1-020.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1113451,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/20C10006-P1-020.jpg?itok=XxcjACQR"}}},"media_ids":["642280","636594"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"635389":{"#nid":"635389","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Turgay Ayer and Interdisciplinary Team Develop COVID-19 Policy Simulator","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn late January, the first case of the novel coronavirus \u0026mdash; the virus which causes COVID-19, a highly contagious disease that originated in China \u0026mdash; was confirmed in the U.S. Due to the rapid spread of the disease in other areas of the world, many U.S.-based researchers began working to help keep Americans safe.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne such researcher was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/isye.gatech.edu\/users\/turgay-ayer\u0022\u003ETurgay Ayer\u003C\/a\u003E, George Family Foundation Early Career Professor and associate professor in the H. 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The simulator, an interactive tool designed to inform COVID-19 intervention policy decisions in the U.S., is also available to the general public. It evaluates the impact of different social distancing interventions on the reduction in spread of coronavirus in the U.S., on both a national and state level.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have leveraged our previous expertise in epidemiological and infectious disease modeling, from a model-building perspective,\u0026rdquo; explained Ayer. \u0026ldquo;However, we could not utilize our knowledge from any other diseases in terms of the spread of this virus because it is so different. The speed at which the virus spreads from one person to another and how long an infected individual can be asymptomatic \u0026mdash; these values are unique to COVID-19. 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The COVID-19 simulator is designed to predict the outcomes of the various levels of social distancing to help policy makers make educated decisions when lifting the various restrictions and give individuals information to determine their own actions going forward.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Ayer, the simulator, which is updated on a weekly basis, is an SEIR compartmental model \u0026mdash; the data sorts individuals into groups in various stages of the disease: susceptible, exposed, infected, and recovered. It combines established epidemiological and infectious disease modeling with state-of-the-art statistical modeling to reflect the most recent forecasts given a variety of scenarios. Intervention levels include \u0026ldquo;minimal restrictions,\u0026rdquo; like increased handwashing and avoiding sick individuals; \u0026ldquo;stay-at-home\u0026rdquo; orders, where people are advised to stay at home unless they need to pick up groceries or other essential goods; and lockdown, the most extreme level, as exercised in other parts of the world such as China and India.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe simulator has received a great deal of attention since its April 24 launch. In the first week, the website received more than 100,000 hits, and the simulator has been featured on MSNBC\u0026rsquo;s Rachel Maddow Show, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/05\/06\/851708826\/episode-997-georgias-open-question\u0022\u003ENPR\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8265799\/Simulator-projects-Georgia-23-000-deaths.html\u0022\u003Ethe U.K.\u0026rsquo;s Daily Mail\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/massachusetts-hospital-coronavirus-simulator\u0022\u003EFox News\u003C\/a\u003E, and numerous other media outlets.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team is currently working to incorporate cell phone tracking data into the model to assess how increased mobility as businesses open will influence projections. In the future, they plan to expand the simulator globally.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe simulator, an interactive tool designed to inform COVID-19 intervention policy decisions in the U.S., is also available to the general public.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The simulator, an interactive tool designed to inform COVID-19 intervention policy decisions in the U.S., is also available to the general public."}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2020-05-14 18:31:36","changed_gmt":"2020-12-08 14:27:08","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"634176":{"id":"634176","type":"image","title":"George Family Foundation Early Career Professor and Associate Professor Turgay Ayer","body":null,"created":"1586367708","gmt_created":"2020-04-08 17:41:48","changed":"1586367708","gmt_changed":"2020-04-08 17:41:48","alt":"George Family Foundation Early Career Professor and Associate Professor Turgay Ayer","file":{"fid":"241322","name":"Turgay Ayer_square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Turgay%20Ayer_square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Turgay%20Ayer_square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":369278,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Turgay%20Ayer_square.jpg?itok=C5SfU_3w"}}},"media_ids":["634176"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"},{"id":"729","name":"pandemic"},{"id":"183843","name":"coronavirus"},{"id":"171265","name":"simulator"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laurie.haigh@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELaurie Haigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Laurie.Haigh@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"634042":{"#nid":"634042","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Create Dedicated Pandemic Clinics Now to Address COVID-19","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECOVID-19 has caught Pinar Keskinocak well prepared. For years, she has studied how societies manage pandemics, and how outbreaks\u0026nbsp;overtax\u0026nbsp;the health care system\u0026nbsp;and wrack\u0026nbsp;supply chains to\u0026nbsp;worsen\u0026nbsp;pandemics. Here she shares her insights.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmpty classrooms and supermarket shelves marked the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Keskinocak expects more signs of the times to come \u0026ndash; such as pop-up pandemic clinics and the shortage and rationing of medical supplies beyond masks and ventilators.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak is the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/pinar-keskinocak\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Edirector of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E, which studies how government and private sectors can cooperate to handle\u0026nbsp;health and humanitarian crises. And she is William W. George Chair and Professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn previous research, Keskinocak\u0026rsquo;s team created a model that accurately ran the course of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, and when COVID-19 struck, her team was already in the middle of modeling how special clinics could significantly slow a pandemic. In the meantime, temporary clinics in Wuhan, China, appear to have validated her model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHealthcare expansion now\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe surge of COVID-19 patients pushed Italy\u0026rsquo;s health care system into a very ugly\u0026nbsp;crisis, and the U.S. needs to take measures now to handle similar patient surges. Pandemics often strike in two waves or more, and the second is usually the worst, so measures need to be lasting, Keskinocak said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEven without COVID-19, the U.S. healthcare system has been under strain. Emergency rooms are often overcrowded; it takes a long time to schedule an appointment, and there is a chronic shortage of nursing staff.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinion\/ny-oped-coronavirus-capacity-gut-check-20200323-vdw2nsude5ehfkj3e3xavjhk54-story.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead Keskinocak\u0026#39;s guest op-ed in the New York Daily News: COVID clinics now\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We need to expand capacity and unleash creative flexibility in our healthcare systems. We should use more telemedicine and create self-service stations for testing. I would particularly like to see specialized COVID-19 clinics established now,\u0026rdquo; Keskinocak said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Special clinics could be separate spaces in existing facilities or standalone facilities. As COVID-19 spreads, we expect a lot more people with cold- and flu-like symptoms to seek testing and care. The healthcare capacities are just not there for a business as usual approach, and taking it could harm patients by delaying care and increasing risk of infection.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGathering COVID-19 patients in tight spaces like waiting rooms with other patients would increase the coronavirus\u0026rsquo; spread, and patients with preexisting conditions could face mortal threat. Contagion could also spread into hospitals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Dedicated pandemic clinics could implement targeted hygiene, air filtration, and specialized protective equipment beyond masks and gloves for healthcare workers. They can tailor workflows to test and care for patients quickly and effectively and keep them away from other patients and staff,\u0026rdquo; Keskinocak said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPayment needs to be easy, too, including financing the uninsured. In the middle of a public health emergency, it is vital to not get bogged down by restrictions meant for normal times.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPotentially dangerous shortages\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToilet paper will make a comeback in supermarkets, but in its place, life-saving medications could become perilously scarce. Countries need to act now to prevent this from compounding the COVID-19 crisis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Dwindling availability of hospital beds, ventilators, and personal protective equipment like masks and gloves during a patient surge \u0026ndash; those are the obvious things. But we could also see shortages of items like asthma medication or antidepressants. Worst case, even food supplies could run low,\u0026rdquo; Keskinocak said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/488296-in-coronapocalypse-the-worst-shortages-could-be-deadly\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead Keskinocak\u0026#39;s guest op-ed in The Hill: medical supply chain dangers\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026rsquo;s how shortages work and can lead to price gouging and also rationing. The latter can have good effects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Shortages are the result of supply-demand imbalance caused by either an unexpected increase in demand or unexpected decrease in supply or both. Shortages are common in crises such as natural disasters or health emergencies. But given the worldwide slowdown of economic activity in pandemics, disruptions could get much worse this time,\u0026rdquo; Keskinocak said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Supply chains are actually intricate webs of multiple parts that span the globe. Pandemics damage many of those parts, and it can take time to recover. This creates a more serious and worrisome imbalance between supply and demand.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToilet paper will return because people fear-hoard it in a panic but consume it at normal rates. When the panic runs its course, demand slows back down to the actual rate of consumption and its normal supply chain, which is relatively simple, catches up.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With medicine and healthcare services and supplies, the increase in demand is typically already in line with consumption, so a shortage in supply or increase in demand can create a supply-demand gap that continues for a long time,\u0026rdquo; Keskinocak said. \u0026ldquo;Medical supply chains are also very complex and fragile.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFuture vaccine distribution\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn normal times, most supply chains work\u0026nbsp;at a plodding pace, and when crisis strikes, it is tough to ramp them up due to expensive equipment, complex logistics, and strict regulations, particularly in health care.\u0026nbsp;Even temporary shortages of medicines and medical devices can have consequences for patients who need them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If shortages become serious, rationing \u0026ndash; with a priority allocation to those most in need \u0026ndash; can help balance demand and supply for critical items like medications.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce created and approved, the production of vaccines or antivirals for COVID-19 will\u0026nbsp;ramp up slowly and could be in short supply at first. Decision-makers need plan investments now in the supply chains necessary for their effective distribution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis will include painful, necessary decisions like prioritizing first doses for healthcare workers, people with pre-existing conditions, and the elderly. The current system of restocking vaccines in the U.S. after initial distribution \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/616037\/flu-vaccine-supply-gaps-can-intensify-flu-seasons-make-pandemics-deadlier\u0022\u003Ealso has serious gaps that need fixing\u003C\/a\u003E to save many more lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the meantime, social distancing is one of the best ways to protect everyone and reduce the patient surge into clinics. Do it if you or anyone in your household has any cold-like symptoms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/blog\/get-schooled\/georgia-tech-professor-explains-how-social-distancing-slows-spread-covid\/uqoFTDBn2btbfh7T18MwmJ\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead Keskinocak\u0026#39;s commentary on social distancing on\u0026nbsp;AJC.com\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlso read:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/616037\/flu-vaccine-supply-gaps-can-intensify-flu-seasons-make-pandemics-deadlier\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVaccine Supply Gaps Can\u0026nbsp;Make Pandemics Deadlier\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia contacts: \u003C\/strong\u003EBen Brumfield (ben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu) and John Toon (john.toon@comm.gatech.edu)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAccording to ISyE Professor Pinar Keskinocak, COVID-19 needs pandemic clinics focused on treating it and keeping it away from non-COVID patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"COVID-19 needs pandemic clinics focused on treating it and keeping it away from non-COVID patients."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-04-03 15:15:12","changed_gmt":"2020-12-08 14:26:50","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"632533":{"id":"632533","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinocak, William W. 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In addition, people will need to be conscientious about getting both shots of the vaccine for strongest immunity, and vaccine skeptics will have to be convinced that the medicines are both safe and effective.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/641702\/coronavirus-vaccine-approval-will-launch-unprecedented-public-health-initiative\u0022\u003Enew article\u003C\/a\u003E from Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s \u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/pinar-keskinocak\u0022\u003EPinar Keskinocak,\u003C\/a\u003E William W. George Chair in the H. 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There are still many things that need to be decided to make this unprecedented initiative live up to its goals.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can read the entire article on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;website \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2JGJ3Ln\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen the FDA approves one or more Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use -- likely by mid-December -- this will launch a public health and logistics initiative unlike any in U.S. history.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"When the FDA approves one or more Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use -- likely by mid-December -- this will launch a public health and logistics initiative unlike any in U.S. history."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-12-02 19:55:36","changed_gmt":"2020-12-08 14:25:57","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"641790":{"id":"641790","type":"image","title":"When the FDA approves one or more Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use -- likely by mid-December -- this will launch a public health and logistics initiative unlike any in U.S. history.","body":null,"created":"1606937818","gmt_created":"2020-12-02 19:36:58","changed":"1606937818","gmt_changed":"2020-12-02 19:36:58","alt":"When the FDA approves one or more Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use -- likely by mid-December -- this will launch a public health and logistics initiative unlike any in U.S. history.","file":{"fid":"243853","name":"Vaccine Pic.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vaccine%20Pic.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vaccine%20Pic.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":48835,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Vaccine%20Pic.jpg?itok=oNM2LQv0"}},"634475":{"id":"634475","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinocak","body":null,"created":"1587133564","gmt_created":"2020-04-17 14:26:04","changed":"1587133594","gmt_changed":"2020-04-17 14:26:34","alt":"","file":{"fid":"241449","name":"Pinar-Square-web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pinar-Square-web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pinar-Square-web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":399616,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Pinar-Square-web.jpg?itok=Zqw-jqld"}}},"media_ids":["641790","634475"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1239","name":"Pinar Keskinocak"},{"id":"1614","name":"bill george"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"168677","name":"chhs"},{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"},{"id":"763","name":"vaccine"},{"id":"167074","name":"Supply Chain"},{"id":"233","name":"Logistics"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.toon@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"640471":{"#nid":"640471","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fellowship Created for ISyE Students in Health Systems and Analytics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe George Family Foundation has provided funding to launch the George Fellows Leadership Program for the 2020-21 academic year. George Fellows, who are ISyE graduate students conducting research in health systems and analytics, will receive a leadership stipend in addition to their fellowship award and will participate in the new year-long leadership program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program is led by Terry Blum, Tedd Munchak Chair in Entrepreneurship and professor in the Scheller College of Business, and Pinar Keskinocak, ISyE William W. George Chair and professor. Participants will study the True North approach to leadership development created by Bill George that has been implemented at both Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Program activities include opportunities to examine self-awareness; values and principles; motivations; and how to lead an integrated life \u0026mdash; all of which underlie becoming an authentic leader.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Historically, healthcare providers have been focused on and were incentivized for treating disease, instead of a holistic systems approach that promotes overall health and well-being and is supported by new advances in analytics and data science,\u0026rdquo; said Keskinocak. \u0026ldquo;We hope that graduates of our master\u0026rsquo;s in health systems program will combine their knowledge of health systems with the skills they gain in this exciting leadership program to lead systemwide transformation from \u0026lsquo;sick care\u0026rsquo; to \u0026lsquo;healthcare.\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"The George Family Foundation has provided funding to launch the George Fellows Leadership Program for the 2020-21 academic year. 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The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/analytics-modeling.shinyapps.io\/outbreakdetection\/\u0022\u003ECovid-19 Outbreak Detection Tool\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is updated two to three times per week, and it predicts how fast an outbreak is spreading within a given county by estimating the doubling time of Covid-19 cases.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo make these predictions, the tool accounts for reported Covid-19 cases and deaths, face mask mandates, social distancing policies, changes in tests performed, rates of positive tests, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.atsdr.cdc.gov\/placeandhealth\/svi\/index.html\u0022\u003ECenters for Disease Control\u0026rsquo;s Social Vulnerability Index\u003C\/a\u003E (which assesses the health-related resilience of individual communities when confronted with external stresses, such as natural or human-caused disasters or disease outbreaks).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tool offers an interactive map and a \u0026ldquo;data explorer\u0026rdquo; that allows users to select a specific county to see that county\u0026rsquo;s population, total new cases of Covid-19 in the past week, average daily cases in the past week, and the Covid-19 doubling rate (i.e., how many days it takes for the number of cases to double in a given county).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;For effectively controlling the pandemic, it is critical to detect an outbreak in a timely manner so that the affected area can be isolated and the spread of Covid-19 infections to neighboring areas can be minimized; however, due to several reasons, it may take days or even weeks for humans to manually detect an outbreak. Our data-driven machine learning\u0026ndash;based solution significantly speeds up and automates that process,\u0026rdquo; said Turgay Ayer, Ph.D., the director of Business Intelligence and Healthcare Analytics at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chhs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECenter for Health and Humanitarian Systems\u003C\/a\u003E and the\u0026nbsp;George Family Foundation Early Career Professor and associate professor in Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While earlier mitigation responses focused on state-level measures\u0026mdash;such as a lockdown of an entire state\u0026mdash;detecting local outbreaks will allow policy makers to implement measures at the county level\u0026mdash;such as closing restaurants in a single county\u0026mdash;to effectively contain the pandemic,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;said Jagpreet Chhatwal, Ph.D., the associate director at the MGH Institute for Technology Assessment and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. \u0026ldquo;The model is able to detect many of the prior outbreaks within a matter of days.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing the Covid-19 Outbreak Tool, the research team verified an outbreak in Johnson county in Iowa last week, which was linked to an outbreak at the University of Iowa. 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These include Harrisonburg County in Virginia, Wheeler County in Georgia, Monroe County in Indiana, and Whitman County in Washington, where infections are doubling in less than one week.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUsing machine learning, the online tool can predict outbreaks in different counties across the U.S.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Using machine learning, the online tool can predict outbreaks in different counties across the U.S."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-09-18 18:37:09","changed_gmt":"2020-09-22 16:09:18","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"635391":{"id":"635391","type":"image","title":"Turgay Ayer","body":null,"created":"1589481251","gmt_created":"2020-05-14 18:34:11","changed":"1589481251","gmt_changed":"2020-05-14 18:34:11","alt":"Turgay_Ayer","file":{"fid":"241784","name":"Turgay Ayer_square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Turgay%20Ayer_square_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Turgay%20Ayer_square_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":369278,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Turgay%20Ayer_square_0.jpg?itok=USoroTgC"}},"639395":{"id":"639395","type":"image","title":"Covid-19 Outbreak Predictor Map","body":null,"created":"1600790884","gmt_created":"2020-09-22 16:08:04","changed":"1600790884","gmt_changed":"2020-09-22 16:08:04","alt":"Map of the United States showing the Covid-19 doubling time in each county.","file":{"fid":"243105","name":"Covid-19-Outbreak-Detector-Map-as-of-09-22-2020-h.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Covid-19-Outbreak-Detector-Map-as-of-09-22-2020-h.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Covid-19-Outbreak-Detector-Map-as-of-09-22-2020-h.png","mime":"image\/png","size":393152,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Covid-19-Outbreak-Detector-Map-as-of-09-22-2020-h.png?itok=eFLXSjYf"}}},"media_ids":["635391","639395"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"},{"id":"185890","name":"outbreak detection"},{"id":"729","name":"pandemic"},{"id":"13749","name":"Turgay Ayer"},{"id":"168677","name":"chhs"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["swundersmith3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"639346":{"#nid":"639346","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rebuild Supply Chains for Quicker Hurricane Recovery ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;By Ben Brumfield\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlleviating suffering more effectively in the wake of hurricanes may require a shift in relief strategies, says a committee \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nap.edu\/read\/25490\/chapter\/1\u0022\u003Ereport by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and\u0026nbsp;Medicine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the immediate aftermath, relief agencies rush in survival supplies like water, food, medicine, and\u0026nbsp;blankets. But instead of prioritizing and maintaining the relief supply chains, restoring a normal supply infrastructure could help more people more quickly. That\u0026rsquo;s the first recommendation from over 125 pages of case studies and analyses, issued by an eight-member National Academies committee that included Pinar\u0026nbsp;Keskinocak,\u0026nbsp;William W. George Chair and Professor at the\u0026nbsp;H. 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If the focus is primarily on pushing relief supply rather than restoring infrastructure and supply chains to normalcy, we may unwittingly delay recovery and prolong the aftermath,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;Keskinocak, who is also director of\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chhs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECenter for Health and Humanitarian Systems.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2017,\u0026nbsp;after\u0026nbsp;hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and\u0026nbsp;Maria\u0026nbsp;(Maria\u0026nbsp;killed over 3,000 people),\u0026nbsp;the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)\u0026nbsp;assigned the National Academies to make recommendations on improving relief response. \u0026ldquo;We spoke to stakeholders in affected areas\u0026nbsp;\u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;local governments, businesses, health systems, and\u0026nbsp;more. We learned about the impact of storms on their community, what their participation was in the response process, and what went well and not so well,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Keskinocak\u0026nbsp;said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChallenges\u0026nbsp;to\u0026nbsp;coordinating\u0026nbsp;resource allocation, especially\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;logistics, have\u0026nbsp;hindered\u0026nbsp;recovery. This led to the report\u0026rsquo;s other major recommendations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Areas where hurricanes may strike need to get a good understanding of how supply chains work under normal conditions along with their vulnerabilities, or weak links, so they can be proactive in strengthening supply,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Keskinocak\u0026nbsp;explained.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDisaster preparedness requires collaboration\u0026nbsp;among\u0026nbsp;government, relief agencies, and\u0026nbsp;the private sector. 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Piedmont further developed the tool and has now built it into the hospital\u0026rsquo;s electronic medical record, where it influences the ordering of retests.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA user can answer their \u0026ldquo;ifs\u0026rdquo; by clicking through questions, and the \u0026ldquo;if-this-then-do-that\u0026rdquo; algorithm makes recommendations for best courses of action, ranging from immediately treating a patient for COVID-19 to retesting to consulting a specialist. The final decision remains with the physician.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe questions are deceptively simple, but the recommendations are not always obvious. 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George Chair and Professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;This tool is meant to help doctors easily stay on the decision tree path.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMichael O\u0026rsquo;Toole, executive director of Piedmont Healthcare\u0026rsquo;s quality improvement department, originally pictured doctors getting an automated version of the decision tree to use on their phones. O\u0026rsquo;Toole called Keskinocak, and she tapped Yu, a member of her research group.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Literally within four hours they had it ready for us. It was incredible,\u0026rdquo; said O\u0026rsquo;Toole, a Georgia Tech alumnus who studied industrial and systems engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was a very pleasant surprise,\u0026rdquo; said Dr. Garner, who is also a Georgia Tech graduate. \u0026ldquo;Automated tools are better than a paper format because they\u0026rsquo;re in the same format as orders in our electronic system.\u0026nbsp;We get notifications in real time instead of having to remember to check a piece of paper.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tool is in place in the system where doctors order retests and is specific to Piedmont\u0026rsquo;s workflow. It may not be directly transferable to other health care systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPiedmont Healthcare simplified the logic even more, and the hospital built its own custom alerts to guide physicians on retesting. For cases that are more ambiguous, Piedmont Healthcare\u0026rsquo;s final version of the tool also gives physicians inside the hospital guidance to consult with their in-house infectious disease specialists.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIf-this-then-retest\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn her original version, Yu had turned the decision tree criteria into a short panel of questions with yes and no answers. It took her six iterations to arrive at her final version.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYu\u0026rsquo;s version asked whether the patient:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Ehas a relevant ailment\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Epreviously tested positive for coronavirus\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Eis now in an intensive care unit\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Ehas worsening lung conditions\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Eshows telltale lung damage in imaging\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Ehas been diagnosed with a different ailment\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Ethe patient has had contact with someone else who tested positive for coronavirus.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the back end, the algorithm guided the user through risks of coronavirus presence based on the answers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The steps were easy to follow, and the answers were color-coded for urgency with 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At a time that is critical for sharing knowledge,\u0026nbsp; Pinar Keskinocak, PhD, ISyE William W. 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Since that time, he has performed as chief logistics officer during \u0026quot;Operation Life Line,\u0026quot; the largest Peacetime airlift and relief and rescue operations of the decade, covering an area the size of Switzerland. After the emergency phase of operations, he took charge of a large transitional shelter project. During the reconstruction phase he oversaw the completion of large projects which built 500,000 houses, 50 schools, 15 health facilities and rehabilitated the completely destroyed town of Balakot, housing over 5000 families.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbrar holds an MPhil in Development Studies from Pakistan and is a graduate from Asia Pacific Center for Security studies in Hawaii. He also holds certificates in disaster and emergency management from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, GA Tech, Kobe University Japan and METU, Turkey. Due to his meritorious services and devotion to serving Humanity, Abrar was presented with one of Pakistan\u0026#39;s highest honors, The Medal of Honor (Tamgha-I-Imtiaz) in 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETodd Shea\u003C\/strong\u003E is the founder of Comprehensive Disaster Response Services (CDRS). His disaster response experience began in the hours and days after the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, when he provided supplies and medicines to firefighters, National Guard troops and other first responders at \u0026quot;Ground Zero\u0026quot; in New York City. He then went on to volunteer in Sri Lanka after the disastrous tsunami in 2004 and in then worked as a logistics coordinator and animal rescuer in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. 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However, because of limited vaccine supply, the demand in some regions cannot always be met, especially during a pandemic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHealth experts determine the ideal vaccine formula each season, which is then produced in small batches, leading to uneven supply and demand while vaccine production ramps up. Historically, due to fairness considerations, vaccines have been allocated pro rata, which means proportionally based on the population of a region. While this may seem like the best way to fairly distribute a limited supply, it does not take demand and \u0026ldquo;uptake\u0026rdquo; \u0026mdash; the number of people who are willing to be vaccinated \u0026mdash; into account.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The uptake rate can vary by region, for various reasons.\u0026rdquo; explained Pinar Keskinocak, William W. George Chair and professor in the H. 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They developed a simulation model to compare the current and proposed vaccine allocation strategies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We found that the proposed strategy would benefit the entire population because it leads to a higher number of people vaccinated and less inventory leftover,\u0026rdquo; explained Keskinocak.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, vaccine inventory visibility in public health supply chains is limited, and accurate uptake rates may not always be available in each geographic area. Keskinocak hopes the results of the study will encourage local reporting of both the number of vaccines administered during a season and the amount that is unused, to inform future allocation decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOptimizing the flu vaccine supply chain will also help when the next pandemic strikes. Historically, pandemics occur every 30-40 years, but the results can be devastating. According to the CDC, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic resulted in 60.8 million illnesses and 12,469 deaths in the U.S. alone.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Information about uptake rates is even more important during a pandemic,\u0026rdquo; added Keskinocak, \u0026ldquo;not only for the effective allocation of vaccines to slow the spread of the disease, but also to increase public awareness efforts about vaccinations in areas where uptake is low.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis study was supported by a seed grant from Georgia Tech and Children\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta. This research was also supported in part by the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Junior Faculty Endowment Fund and the following Georgia Tech benefactors: William\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E W. George, Andrea Laliberte, Joseph C. Mello, and Richard \u0026ldquo;Rick\u0026rdquo; E. and Charlene Zalesky.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE Professor Pinar Keskinocak and her team have developed a model that better matches flu vaccine supply with actual regional demand.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Professor Pinar Keskinocak and her team have developed a model that better matches flu vaccine supply with actual regional demand."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-02-17 17:15:18","changed_gmt":"2020-02-17 20:28:08","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"632533":{"id":"632533","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinocak, William W. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), a College of Engineering ADVANCE professor, and the director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chhs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Health and Humanitarian Systems\u003C\/a\u003E (CHHS) at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn some ways, this office represents the pinnacle of Keskinocak\u0026rsquo;s longstanding service to INFORMS, which began when she was a junior faculty member. Since then, she has served on the INFORMS board as both vice president of membership and professional recognition and secretary; co-founder and president of the Junior Faculty Interest Group Forum and Pubic Sector Operations Research Section; and president of the Women in OR\/MS Forum and the Health Applications Society. She also has served as an officer of other INFORMS sections, on the editorial boards of several journals, and as chair of both the Doctoral Colloquium and Nicholson Paper Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak has been serving as president-elect of INFORMS since January 2019. After her presidency in 2020, she will remain on the executive board for one year as past president. In this interview, she discusses her goals for INFORMS\u0026rsquo; growth, outreach, and impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAs an ISyE faculty member, you\u0026rsquo;re very busy \u0026ndash; teaching, researching, directing CHHS.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EGiven this, why are you also committed to active involvement in INFORMS?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EINFORMS is the largest professional society for our field. As an organization that has both academic and non-academic members, it is a community influencing the current and future impact of our field in education, research, and practice. I care about the impact our work can have on society and businesses, and for that reason, it is important for me to contribute as much as I can.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are some of your goals for your presidency?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are several exciting areas I would like to focus on.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOur membership has been strong and growing for a number of years. I believe we can further extend our reach in terms of attracting and retaining student members, as well as practice members. One way to do this to reach out to younger generations and share information about our field. Middle school and high school students may have no awareness of the exciting career opportunities available to them through operations research and analytics. INFORMS has a history of successful K-12 outreach, and I hope we will continue to build on that, as well as continuing our outreach to undergraduate and graduate student members.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHistorically, we have seen engagement and collaborations between our academic and practice members. There\u0026rsquo;s an opportunity to increase such interactions by building more and stronger bridges between academia and practice. There are many practitioners whose work involves operations research or analytics. But they may not be engaged with INFORMS \u0026ndash; or even if they are, their engagement might be primarily with practice members. So, we still have opportunities to increase engagement and collaborations between academia and practice (including industry and government), considering what academia might offer to positively impact practice, and the challenging problems faced by practitioners to spur new research and innovation. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile INFORMS\u0026rsquo; engagement with industry has been strong, we can build on our policy impact by increasing our engagement with governmental and non-governmental agencies (NGOs). This continues to be another growth area for the organization \u0026ndash; domestically and internationally. We have the opportunity to tackle some of the most complex problems facing humanity, and we need to be connecting more to the decision-makers, so that when they have issues that require data-driven analytical approaches, they think of and reach out to INFORMS and its members.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe also have opportunities to further diversify our membership base and enhance our culture of inclusivity. The STEM fields generally face challenges in diversity and inclusion, and INFORMS is no exception, though as an organization, we have made significant strides. For example, we established a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.informs.org\/About-INFORMS\/Governance\/Committees\/Specialty\/Diversity-Equity-and-Inclusion-Committee\u0022\u003Ediversity, equity, and inclusion committee\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.informs.org\/About-INFORMS\/Governance\/INFORMS-Ethics-Guidelines\u0022\u003Eethics guidelines\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.informs.org\/About-INFORMS\/Governance\/INFORMS-Code-of-Conduct\u0022\u003Ea code of conduct\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe INFORMS board just approved a new initiative proposal to establish an INFORMS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Ambassadors Program. These ambassadors, both individually and collectively, will work on initiatives to improve DEI within the broader INFORMS community. We are very excited about the possibilities for this program, which is open to all INFORMS members and staff.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is most exciting to you about this opportunity to serve as president?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EINFORMS is an amazing organization and has been on a positive trajectory for several years. Just look at our performance metrics in terms of our membership, participation in our conferences, our journals, the quality and number of journal articles published, and how these articles are consumed by readers. So this is a fantastic time for INFORMS \u0026ndash; we can communally be proud of it. Our current position of strength gives us opportunities to take some bigger leaps.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EYou\u0026rsquo;re obviously a systems thinker. How will that contribute to your role as INFORMS president?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe definitely need to be implementing the OR and analytical techniques we use in our day to day research and work into INFORMS operations. For some of these future goals and also current initiatives, the pieces all need to fit together. Our portfolio includes conferences, journals, sections and societies, etc. When we take action in one area, it has impact and implications for the others as well. That\u0026rsquo;s where the systems thinking becomes important: Considering our actions and strategies not in isolation for each part of our portfolio, but synergistically, to make progress in line with our overarching goals. Of course progress can only happen with the synergistic collaborations between our amazing staff, members, and our external constituents. As a famous African proverb states, \u0026ldquo;Go alone if you want to go fast; go together if you want to go far.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAfter your presidency, what will your future involvement in INFORMS look like?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI have always been committed to INFORMS, and I envision my involvement will continue beyond 2020-21, via journal editorial boards, outreach, etc. I am also excited about the new DEI Ambassadors program and hope to contribute to its progress and success moving forward. INFORMS is an incredible organization. I am grateful to be a member, and I encourage and invite everyone to engage.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak has been an engaged member of INFORMS since early in her academic career, and the presidency represents the pinnacle of her involvement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Keskinocak has been an engaged member of INFORMS since early in her academic career, and the presidency represents the pinnacle of her involvement."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-01-17 16:24:35","changed_gmt":"2020-01-21 13:57:57","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"631260":{"id":"631260","type":"image","title":"William W. 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Presentations and discussions focused on new technologies and innovative quantitative approaches to promote\u0026nbsp;and maintain\u0026nbsp;wellness. The forum served as a platform for identifying challenges and important trends in health\u0026nbsp;system applications, opportunities for collaboration, and ideas for future innovations and effective practices. The event kicked off with an exciting set of\u0026nbsp;presentations and posters, showcasing new research and\u0026nbsp; applications\u0026nbsp;followed by a panel session comprised of experts from various health systems:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joyce-s-615bb14\/\u0022 rel=\u0022 noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJoyce Siegele\u003C\/a\u003E, Northside Hospital;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/news.emory.edu\/stories\/2017\/05\/victoria_jordan_joins_ehc_quality_kennedy_initiative\/\u0022 rel=\u0022 noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVictoria Jordan\u003C\/a\u003E, Emory Healthcare;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/neurology.emory.edu\/faculty\/general_neurology\/esper_gregory.html\u0022 rel=\u0022 noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGreg Esper\u003C\/a\u003E, Emory University School of Medicine;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tarunmohanlal\/\u0022 rel=\u0022 noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETarun Mohan Lal\u003C\/a\u003E, Navicent Health. 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Their way of orchestrating it all is to hold weekly assemblies of up to 25 therapists, gathering them in a room with clip-boarded sheets and pencils \u0026mdash; a scene that, when described, evokes the old trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Every week, they come into this big room and create a whole schedule on paper,\u0026rdquo; said Meena Iyer, senior process improvement advisor for Shepherd. \u0026ldquo;It is a major time commitment.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey knew there had to be a better way. And to find it, Shepherd turned to Pinar Keskinocak, William W. George Chair and Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and the director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce a year, Keskinocak teaches a graduate-level course in which student teams apply their industrial engineering, operations research, and data analytics skills to solve real-world problems in health care, humanitarian systems, and other public sector or societal applications. During spring 2017, one of the project teams focused on streamlining and automating the scheduling process at Pathways.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Pinar was actually one of my professors,\u0026rdquo; said Kristin Goin (MSHS 08), Shepherd\u0026rsquo;s former senior improvement consultant who teamed up with Pathways colleague Iyer on the project. \u0026ldquo;I knew that optimization and scheduling was a key skill set that industrial engineers had.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One of the first steps was to answer the question, \u0026lsquo;What is ideal care?\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo; Keskinocak recalled. \u0026ldquo;The Pathways schedule was somewhat provider-centric. As we started working, we asked them how they would provide an ideal care to patients if they had a magic wand. This question was helpful in thinking about each patient\u0026rsquo;s unique needs.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDefining the problem also meant examining the current state of scheduling in detail. \u0026ldquo;We created a map of every aspect of the manual scheduling process,\u0026rdquo; Goin said. \u0026ldquo;We put that across an entire wall of a room, like a war room, and went over every step.\u0026rdquo; They also surveyed Pathways staff to identify pain points and inefficiencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder the guidance of Goin, Iyer, Keskinocak, and the Pathways staff, the six-member student team first streamlined how Pathways collected information on both the needs of the patients and the availability of the staff. They created two tools to do this, each to ensure that complete and consistent sets of data were available.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;After that, we developed heuristic algorithms,\u0026rdquo; explained Kirthana Hampapur, who was a master\u0026rsquo;s student in ISyE at the time, and a member of the student team. \u0026ldquo;The heuristic would go through the two tools \u0026ndash; the patient info, which we called an Ideal Plan of Care tool, and the staff availability data \u0026ndash; then assign each patient to therapists across multiple time slots.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe students could have declared victory, as patient scheduling was now much closer to automation. But Hampapur remembered, \u0026ldquo;We felt like we hadn\u0026rsquo;t left the project in a good place.\u0026rdquo; The process was still not optimized to provide patients with as many therapy appointments as possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo after consulting with Keskinocak, she started a summer internship with Shepherd Pathways to continue the work. Using Python, the high-level programming language employed in application development, Hampapur continued to develop and implement the heuristic. Then in the fall semester, as she began pursuing her Ph.D., she teamed up with another student, Idil Arsik, also a Ph.D. student in ISyE, to develop a model of mixed integer-programming to improve the solution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe result was something Shepherd nicknamed \u0026ldquo;The Wizard.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This was the actual software that took into account all of the input on patient needs, all of the staff availability, and then several other rules, such as when a certain patient has to go with a certain staff member,\u0026rdquo; Goin said. \u0026ldquo;The Wizard then generated the schedule.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Given the specified objectives and constraints, it creates the best schedule possible,\u0026rdquo; Hampapur said, \u0026ldquo;because every patient gets what he or she needs, and the number of therapy appointments is maximized.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe outcome was happy for Shepherd Pathways. The time required for scheduling was reduced by 60 percent, and more than 90 percent of scheduling requirements were met.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With 150 patients who have different needs, there are millions of possible schedule combinations,\u0026rdquo; Goin said. \u0026ldquo;The number of constraints is phenomenal, so it\u0026rsquo;s like peeling an onion. Georgia Tech has never failed to deliver the onion as peeled.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0026rsquo;s the approach followed by a collaborative team from ISyE and Shepherd Pathways\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"That\u2019s the approach followed by a collaborative team from ISyE and Shepherd Pathways. 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Potential supply chain disruptions and uncertainty \u0026ndash; combined with limited resources, both human and financial \u0026ndash; add to the challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo help address these issues, the 10\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E Annual Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Logistics Conference (HHLC) brought together leaders and practitioners from around the world to address topics such as health emergencies, health systems strengthening, and disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. HHLC is one of the few conferences that brings representatives from both health and humanitarian arenas together to highlight such challenges and share best practices. It also serves as a forum for collaboration and coordination across multiple sectors and organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The motivation for convening this conference has been two-fold: to address natural and man-made disasters that affect thousands of people every year, as well as ongoing development needs in health and well-being, nutrition, education, and other key areas,\u0026rdquo; said Pinar Keskinocak, William W. George Chair and Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), the College of Engineering\u0026rsquo;s ADVANCE Professor, and co-founder and director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0026rsquo;s conference was held on July 18 and 19 in Dubai, UAE. The conference featured numerous workshops and panel discussions, with approximately 200 speakers and attendees from 44 countries and 122 organizations, including world leaders in the health and humanitarian sectors, current and former ministers of health, representatives from governmental and non-governmental organizations, industry, foundations, and academia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference began with a keynote presentation from Jagan Chapagain, the Under-Secretary-General for Programmes and Operation for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Chapagain discussed the many challenges faced during public health emergencies and the strategies to strengthen the system to better meet the needs of the public during normal times and beyond.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Strong health systems help prevent humanitarian crises,\u0026rdquo; explained Chapagain. \u0026ldquo;They provide a basis for early interventions so that quick action can be taken to stop the spread of epidemics and also help reduce the impact of non-communicable diseases. At the same time humanitarian issues could provide the necessary resources and impetus to strengthen the health systems in the countries affected by crises. Each approach reinforces the other.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We hope that the presentations and discussions the conference hosted over the years help us articulate the pressing challenges related to health and humanitarian systems and inspire new ideas and practices toward positive change,\u0026rdquo; added Keskinocak. \u0026ldquo;Given the complexity of these problems, collaboration among different entities is essential in generating sustainable solutions. We hope that the conference will continue to foster new partnerships and synergies across the many different organizations represented by the attendees.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile CHHS carried the torch in kick-starting and organizing the conference in Atlanta during its first three years, other organizations, including INSEAD, MIT Humanitarian Response Lab, Northeastern University, and NC State, joined as co-organizers over the past seven years, also in collaboration with People that Deliver and the International Association of Public Health Logisticians in 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrevious conference locations include the United States, Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, South Africa, and Denmark.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EConference organizers are grateful for the generous sponsorship from key partners. UPS Foundation has been the premiere sponsor for nine consecutive years, and other sponsors include Chemonics, The Coca-Cola Company, Imperial Health Sciences, Imres, ISyE, Johnson \u0026amp; Johnson, K\u0026uuml;hne Stiftung, Partnership for Supply Chain Management, Ryder, Pfizer, Walmart, and William Davidson Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the conference, CHHS offers an annual professional certificate in Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Supply Chain Management. 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Students include \u003Cstrong\u003EAndrew Bedenk, Kaitlyn Castaneira, Margaret Massey, Jonathan Porter, James Tanzy, \u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E Andrew Taylor\u003C\/strong\u003E. Their faculty advisor is Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EMarc Goetschalckx\u003C\/strong\u003E. Their project focused on redesigning Interface\u0026#39;s warehousing systems and strategies in order to reduce the excessive pick and stage cycle times, lost inventory, and high inventory levels. They developed a four-step solution to address all of these issues, including investments in more advanced Warehouse Management System software, reevaluation and reduction of inventory levels, racking and forklift upgrades, and internal process improvements. Their solution will save Interface an estimated $1.6 million annually, with an estimated 30% ten-year internal rate of return.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Cstrong\u003EUPS Senior Design\u003C\/strong\u003E team placed as a finalist in the Fall 2014 Senior Design Competition for their project. Team members are \u003Cstrong\u003EApril Ahn, Jessica Dow, Lucas Onsgard, John Rice, Philip Tylman, Song Wang and Jongkwan Woo\u003C\/strong\u003E. Their advisor is Stewart Faculty Fellow and Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EShabbir Ahmed.\u003C\/strong\u003E United Parcel Service (UPS) is the world\u0026rsquo;s largest package delivery company. The project focused on optimizing UPS\u0026rsquo;s hub-to-hub routes for the peak holiday season. The team developed a systematic route planning approach that explicitly addresses uncertainty of load and driver availability during the peak season. The new approach is able to realize a reduction in unnecessary miles by an average of 3.4% with a potential savings of $12.1 M.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAll senior students in ISyE culminate their undergraduate educational experience with the Senior Design course in order to provide firsthand experience at solving real world problems in a team environment. Students typically work in teams of six to eight individuals with 15-25 Senior Design teams running each semester. Each group is advised by an ISyE faculty member, and the faculty coordinator manages the overall course. Companies interested in submitting a project for consideration can either contact Joel Sokol, at 404 894-6484 or can post a project through the ISyE webpage at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/seniordesign\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/seniordesign\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/seniordesign\/\u003C\/a\u003E. 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Her collaborations are equally varied, including colleagues from academia, and the public and private sectors.\u0026nbsp;The nature of her collaborations and diverse subject expertise has resulted in research that engages the public and has had meaningful impacts in policy making.\u0026nbsp;The award will be presented at the annual Georgia Tech Faculty and Staff Honors Luncheon to be held on Wednesday, April 11, 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThomas holds a joint appointment in the Stewart School and in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Her research interests include energy systems, sustainability, industrial ecology, technology assessment, international security, and science and technology policy. Her current research projects include the environmental impacts of biofuels and electricity system policy and planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThomas is a member of the USDA\/DOE Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee. 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Joe Ruiz, the director of the UPS Humanitarian Relief and Resilience Program noted, \u0026ldquo;By training and mentoring professionals as well as undergraduate and graduate students in the courses and research projects, Professor Keskinocak strives to promote access to quality education in this area to improve health and humanitarian systems and human lives worldwide.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak\u0026rsquo;s research focuses on the applications of operations research and management science with societal impact, particularly health and humanitarian applications, supply chain management, and logistics\/transportation. Her recent work has addressed infectious disease modeling, evaluating intervention strategies, and resource allocation; catch-up scheduling for vaccinations; hospital operations management; disaster preparedness and response (e.g., prepositioning inventory); debris management; and centralized and decentralized price and lead time decisions. 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On the other hand, in developing countries, over 10 million children under the age of five die from inadequate medical care every year \u0026ndash; children who could benefit from this otherwise usable \u0026ldquo;medical waste.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;This is where Decatur, Georgia-based nonprofit MedShare comes in: Since its inception, the organization has collected over $207 million worth of medical supplies and equipment. In 2016, according to a 2017 article in \u003Cem\u003EPro Publica\u003C\/em\u003E, \u0026ldquo;MedShare \u0026hellip; sent 156 containers of discarded medical supplies to developing countries \u0026hellip; each one worth as much as $175,000.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMedShare\u0026rsquo;s challenge is that delivery of goods to medically underserved communities is based on donations, and thus the nonprofit has no control over the types of products it receives from hospitals and corporations. Additionally, MedShare serves recipient hospitals or health care organizations in nearly 100 countries, increasing the challenge of figuring out what should be sent where.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor example, said Can Zhang, different locations may need different equipment: \u0026ldquo;A maternal care hospital will need more baby warmers than will a hospital focusing on primary care.\u0026rdquo; Zhang is a recent graduate of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and is now an assistant professor at Duke University\u0026rsquo;s Fuqua School of Business.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In this particular case,\u0026rdquo; Zhang explained, \u0026ldquo;the traditional supply chain approach of matching supply to demand doesn\u0026rsquo;t work. As a result, about 70 percent of the donated equipment ends up wasted, because they are not actually usable, or the items are inappropriate for the beneficiaries.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with ISyE George Family Foundation Early Career Professor Turgay Ayer, and Dunn Family Professor Atalay Atasu and Brady Family Chair in Management Beril Toktay in the Scheller College of Business, Zhang developed a model whereby MedShare solicits \u0026ldquo;wish lists\u0026rdquo; from the recipient organizations. These groups rank needed products in order of priority, and then MedShare matches their medical product inventory to these lists. MedShare has implemented the model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZhang is working to further refine the matching process. Whereas in previous years, MedShare focused on quantity \u0026ndash; the number of containers they shipped out \u0026ndash; the nonprofit now wants to focus on quality \u0026ndash; how many people they serve and how many lives have been improved. This shift in emphasis, Zhang said, will require more detailed measurements of welfare improvement in developing countries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the No. 1-ranked graduate program for industrial engineering, ISyE attracts many highly qualified Ph.D. students. 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Even though we have achieved great engineering advancements in terms of supporting crisis situations with cutting-edge techniques, there is more to do to optimize the entire process. Saving time and money means saving lives. I want to use my knowledge to make a difference in the world, and studying and working in supply chain and logistics can help me achieve that goal.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDuring your MSSCE studies at ISyE, you also earned a certification from the Center for Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Systems (CHHS) in the Global Logistics Scholars Program. Why did you do this?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe CCHS certification program and showed me what supply chain experts can do in the humanitarian arena. Prior to taking this certification program, my expertise focused more on commercial supply chain \u0026ndash; the goal of which is profit maximization. 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We have built several dashboards to monitor procurement processes, inventory, dispatches, key grants, services contracts, and container demurrage, and so forth. I have also worked with colleagues from other departments, such as nutrition and health, to create forecasting models for critical items to predict demand. Another responsibility I have is to conduct specific supply chain-related \u0026nbsp;workshops for key UNICEF staff from different country offices in the MENA region.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy are supply chain experts so essential to the success of health and humanitarian organizations?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore and more, people are seeing the importance of supply chain functionality in health and humanitarian organizations. Many humanitarian organizations have two \u0026ldquo;customers\u0026rdquo;: the people who need help and the donors. 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This new problem is inspired by a Dutch civilian response smart phone app which alerts volunteers when an OHCA occurs in the vicinity and directs them to first a nearby AED and then to the victim. I will propose a comprehensive modeling framework which combines spatial data analytics, optimization and geographical information systems (GIS) modeling. This framework is primarily motivated by the AED deployment in the Netherlands but can be extended to various other settings in which demand and supply locations are uncertain, such as emergency planning and humanitarian logistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDerya Demirtas is a visiting faculty in the Industrial and Systems Engineering and in the Center for Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Systems at Georgia Tech. 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Two recent articles, \u0026ldquo;Effective Medical Surplus Recovery\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;Truthful Mechanisms for Medical Surplus Product Allocation,\u0026rdquo; identify operations methodology that enables recipients to request and receive items that best match their needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMedShare, the Medical Surplus Recovery Organization (MSRO) that served as the researchers\u0026rsquo; site of research and analysis, by all accounts excels in its mission to \u0026ldquo;improve the quality of life of people and our planet.\u0026rdquo; Among the nation\u0026rsquo;s top-rated nonprofits, the Decatur-based MSRO bridges the gap between surplus and need by shipping excess medical supplies and equipment to developing countries. Since being founded in 1998, MedShare has delivered over $206 million of humanitarian aid and has helped over 19 million patients worldwide. 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He compared it to \u0026ldquo;shopping on Amazo\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese exchanges led Professors Atasu and Beril Toktay each to write a case study focused on different facets of MedShare\u0026rsquo;s exciting supply chain model.\u0026nbsp;Can Zhang, a PhD student in the Stewart School of Industrial\u0026nbsp;\u0026amp; Systems\u0026nbsp;Engineering\u0026nbsp;who is broadly interested in socially responsible operations, heard\u0026nbsp;about these\u0026nbsp;efforts\u0026nbsp;and, along with one of his advisors,\u0026nbsp;George Family Foundation\u0026nbsp;Assistant Professor Turgay Ayer, also became interested in\u0026nbsp;studying\u0026nbsp;MedShare. In studying the nonprofit\u0026rsquo;s operations, the four researchers discovered that allowing recipients to view and select from an online list of available inventory could create time-based competition in the ordering system, which resulted in recipients selecting and receiving medical items that might not meet their most pressing needs. Zhang applied game theory to the creation of models that would better match inventory and need. He determined that a \u0026ldquo;wish list\u0026rdquo; model would provide clarity in regard to recipients\u0026rsquo; top priorities. Instead of displaying inventory from which recipients could \u0026ldquo;go shopping,\u0026rdquo; the wish list model would let recipients rank their priorities from a list of all potential items, but would hide actual inventory. MedShare would then be able to see which items from their current inventory would best supply which recipient\u0026mdash;so they could service that need first.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERedding said MedShare always gives recipients surveys that include the question, \u0026ldquo;Were you able to use the equipment you ordered?\u0026rdquo; Most recipients usually answered \u0026ldquo;yes.\u0026rdquo; However, Redding noted, \u0026ldquo;We never asked the question, \u0026lsquo;Did we provide what you really wanted?\u0026rsquo; We were forcing them to select from what was available as opposed to identifying what they really needed and having them wait until it was available.\u0026rdquo; He praised Zhang and the team of researchers in providing a more efficient model for delivering humanitarian aid that can do the most good for a community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor his work on \u0026ldquo;Truthful Mechanisms for Medical Surplus Product Allocation,\u0026rdquo; Zhang won the 2017 POMS College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Award. He is also a finalist for the 2017 INFORMS Doing Good with Good OR Student Paper Competition and the 2017 MSOM Student Paper Competition. Zhang said the project excites him because of the social welfare and humanitarian angle. He said, \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m from a small town in China, and I have been a part of the people who received aid from others. Therefore, I feel very motivated to study a problem like this\u0026mdash;how to help people more effectively. My hope is to build an academic career where I have social impact by\u0026nbsp;working on scarce resource allocation problems in nonprofits and healthcare supply chains.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EReferences:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA. Atasu, B. Toktay, W.M. Yeo, C. Zhang. \u0026ldquo;Effective Medical Surplus Recovery.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Forthcoming in Production and Operations Management.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EC. Zhang, A. Atasu, T. Ayer, B. Toktay. \u0026ldquo;Truthful Mechanisms for Medical Surplus\u0026nbsp;Product Allocation.\u0026rdquo; Submitted.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have identified how medical surplus items can be distributed more efficiently by humanitarian organizations. Two recent articles, \u0026ldquo;Effective Medical Surplus Recovery\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;Truthful Mechanisms for Medical Surplus Product Allocation,\u0026rdquo; identify operations methodology that enables recipients to request and receive items that best match their needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers from Georgia Tech have identified how medical surplus items can be distributed more efficiently by humanitarian organizations. 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As Dr. Mark Rosenberg, former president and CEO of the T\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.taskforce.org\/\u0022\u003Eask Force for Global Health \u003C\/a\u003E(TFGH) pointed out in a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/leadership.saportareport.com\/globalhealth\/2015\/01\/08\/development-healthcare-workforce-allocation-tool-demonstrates-real-collaboration-among-atlanta-based-global-health-organizations\/\u0022\u003E2015 blog article\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0026ldquo;In Mozambique [for example], where life expectancy is only 50 years, HCW shortages are particularly pronounced. Fewer than 1,500 doctors serve a population of 25.2 million.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo deal with the problem of HCW shortages, the \u003Cstrong\u003ETFGH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Mozambique Ministry of Health (MOH) \u003C\/strong\u003Ejoined forces. Involving a team from Georgia Tech in their efforts, they jointly developed a solution, called the \u003Cstrong\u003EWorkforce Allocation Optimization Tool\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently,\u0026nbsp;alumna of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering \u003C\/a\u003E(ISyE) at Georgia Tech,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sheereen-brown-4651a377\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESheereen Brown\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (BSIE 12, MSHS 14) serves as a business analyst for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.phii.org\/\u0022\u003EPublic Health Informatics Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (PHII), a program of TFGH. \u003Cstrong\u003EShe works with a team leading the implementation of the tool in Mozambique, while also rolling it out in Tanzania and Zimbabwe.\u003C\/strong\u003E What makes the tool particularly special is that for the first time, HCW placement preferences are taken into account.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Previously, in Mozambique, there was a very top-down approach to allocation, without any data to drive that process,\u0026rdquo; said Brown. \u0026ldquo;There was no preference data from the HCWs \u0026mdash; nobody got a say in where they went.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe problem with this approach is that once HCWs were placed somewhere, they would immediately apply for a transfer so they could go to a district of their choice.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn December 2015, Mozambique\u0026rsquo;s MOH put the allocation tool in place to great success. By asking HCWs their top three preferences for placement within the country, \u003Cstrong\u003Eover 75 percent of HCWs were satisfactorily placed in one of their top three preferences.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tool\u0026rsquo;s initial beginnings were in an ISyE special projects class led by \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chhs.gatech.edu\/pkeskinocak\u0022\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/strong\u003E who holds ISyE\u0026rsquo;s William W. George Chair. According to Keskinocak, developing the allocation tool was exactly the sort of problem tackled in ISyE. A conversation with Vivian Singletary (BSIE 95), an ISyE alumna who directs the PHII, led to giving two students in the special projects class the assignment of conceptualizing the allocation tool. Then-Tech undergraduate \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/emily-gooding-13676a19\u0022\u003EEmily Gooding\u003C\/a\u003E (BSPFE 14) and master\u0026rsquo;s student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/colleengootee\u0022\u003EColleen Hinojosa\u003C\/a\u003E (MSSCE 14) developed a preliminary model of the workforce allocation optimization tool for their class project. The goal behind the allocation tool\u0026rsquo;s creation was to address the question of how HCW demand could be met while improving the workers\u0026rsquo; sense of satisfaction in their geographical placement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter the special projects class ended, ISyE Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/monicacv\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMonica Villareal\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (IE 15), who had prior experience developing other similar decision-support solutions, worked with TFGH to further develop the tool. Villareal explained, \u0026ldquo;They needed a more robust tool.\u0026rdquo; \u003Cstrong\u003EThis included reprogramming the tool to meet specific requests on the part of the Mozambique MOH, as well as testing actual data and comparing results from the initial model to the HCW actual allocation.\u003C\/strong\u003E This measured the benefits of the model. In addition, Villareal ran different scenarios to test different model data input settings, such as giving increased weight for regions with higher HIV rates.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce Villareal completed her Ph.D. work and joined the Denver Public School System as a Senior Analyst, further implementation of the allocation tool then passed to Brown.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduating with her master\u0026rsquo;s degree in health systems, Brown was looking for a meaningful way to apply her IE skills and found the right environment at PHII. \u0026ldquo;In this role, I am at the intersection of people in public health; the processes and work that are done in public health; and the technology knowledge used to accomplish that work,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;ISyE teaches you to be a process thinker and to understand the critical path for how important work is accomplished. My public health colleagues are brilliant: They\u0026rsquo;re scientists, they\u0026rsquo;re doctors, they\u0026rsquo;re nurses, and they\u0026rsquo;re thinking about tackling the health side. They\u0026rsquo;re thinking about what combination of antibiotics someone with a particular disease should receive, or how many rounds of vaccine a child may still need.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;They\u0026rsquo;re not necessarily thinking about how to improve their overall processes to make them more efficient, so they can do more for more people. That\u0026rsquo;s where my team comes in.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Excel-based allocation tool \u0026mdash; specifically designed this way so developing countries don\u0026rsquo;t have to spend a lot of money on expensive specialized software \u0026mdash; tackles the HCW allocation problem from two sides:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003Ewhere the need is greatest and where workers want to be placed.\u003C\/strong\u003E Brown described the tool as \u0026ldquo;a way to solve the health care supply chain problem.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The allocation tool uses one of ISyE\u0026rsquo;s shining stars \u0026mdash; optimization \u0026mdash; to understand how to place this very scarce resource population [HCWs] around the country to serve the most people with the most need,\u0026rdquo; said Brown.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;\u003Cstrong\u003EIt looks at population distribution across the country, the health need burden of those different populations \u0026mdash; whether there\u0026rsquo;s a high HIV or malaria prevalence \u0026mdash; and the demand that\u0026rsquo;s precipitated by that population\u003C\/strong\u003E. And a critical key to its success is that it also takes into account the preferences of the HCWs that it\u0026rsquo;s allocating.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If it was just a matter of money, then these countries would hire a lot of HCWs and put them all over the country,\u0026rdquo; said Brown. \u0026ldquo;But some of these nations have financial constraints, so the allocation tool helps to put nurses, doctors, midwives, and pharmacists in the places that will have the highest impact, and places where they\u0026rsquo;ll also have a higher rate of satisfaction in that community.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe next step is looking at the retention rate of the precious resource comprised of HCWs, based on use of the allocation tool. While official results are not in, the preliminary results look very promising.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Task Force for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control \u0026amp; Prevention, and the Ministry of Health in Mozambique partner with Georgia Tech CHHS to develop tool to improve job placement in health sector.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Task Force for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control \u0026 Prevention, and the Ministry of Health in Mozambique partner with Georgia Tech CHHS to develop tool to improve job placement in health sector."}],"uid":"27858","created_gmt":"2016-11-30 21:19:23","changed_gmt":"2017-10-06 19:54:14","author":"Meghan Smithgall","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"584576":{"id":"584576","type":"image","title":"Sheereen Brown","body":null,"created":"1480704310","gmt_created":"2016-12-02 18:45:10","changed":"1480704310","gmt_changed":"2016-12-02 18:45:10","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222886","name":"Sheereen Brown.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sheereen%20Brown.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sheereen%20Brown.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":34021,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sheereen%20Brown.jpg?itok=yqWaGTSh"}},"584575":{"id":"584575","type":"image","title":"Monica Villarreal","body":null,"created":"1480704293","gmt_created":"2016-12-02 18:44:53","changed":"1480704293","gmt_changed":"2016-12-02 18:44:53","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222885","name":"Monica Villarreal.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Monica%20Villarreal.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Monica%20Villarreal.png","mime":"image\/png","size":165348,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Monica%20Villarreal.png?itok=pnLroURe"}},"533091":{"id":"533091","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinock, INFORMS Fellow","body":null,"created":"1462561200","gmt_created":"2016-05-06 19:00:00","changed":"1475895314","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:14","alt":"Pinar Keskinock, INFORMS Fellow","file":{"fid":"89414","name":"pinar_mag.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pinar_mag_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pinar_mag_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":734910,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/pinar_mag_0.jpg?itok=_MPSV6FR"}}},"media_ids":["584576","584575","533091"],"groups":[{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167243","name":"systems"},{"id":"1377","name":"optimization"},{"id":"7668","name":"workforce"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"172832","name":"sheereen brown"},{"id":"166847","name":"students"},{"id":"506","name":"alumni"},{"id":"172833","name":"monica villareal"},{"id":"1239","name":"Pinar Keskinocak"},{"id":"1237","name":"Julie Swann"},{"id":"11048","name":"task force"},{"id":"14886","name":"global health"},{"id":"123","name":"CDC"},{"id":"5302","name":"Disease"},{"id":"172834","name":"mozambique"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["chhs@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"584577":{"#nid":"584577","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CHHS Senior Design Team Works with CDC on a Risk Assessment Tool for Organ Donations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe demand and the average time on the waiting lists for organ transplants are growing, while the supply of organs remains comparatively limited. According to UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing,\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECurrently more than 121,480 people across the United States are waiting for an organ\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003Ewhile 30,970 people received transplants in 2015. \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the same year, 6,648 people died on the transplant waitlist, while 6,702 were removed from the list after waiting so long that they became too sick to undergo transplant surgery.A possible resolution to this problem is to\u003Cstrong\u003E increase the availability of organs\u003C\/strong\u003E. In the past, organs with a small risk of infection were often not chosen for transplant. After several transmissions of infectious diseases that occurred through transplants where these infections (or the risk) were not detected ahead of time, use of many more organs were discouraged because of problems with understanding the risk.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA collaborative project between the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E at GeorgiaTech\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(ISyE) and the \u003Cstrong\u003ECenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) \u003C\/strong\u003Eaddresses this issue of risk estimation and perception, with the goal of assessing the risk of infection in an organ donor, and evaluating the options of receiving an increased-risk donor (IRD) organ versus staying on the waitlist for a patient.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUltimately, the goals are to reduce deaths due to organ transplants transmitting infections, boost the availability of organs without infection for transplant, and reduce the number of patients who die while on the waiting list.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe collaboration started with a Senior Design project, initially focusing on infectious encephalitis in liver transplants. Under the guidance of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chhs.gatech.edu\/pkeskinocak\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, ISyE\u0026rsquo;s William W. George Chair, and CDC subject matter experts (SMEs), the fall 2014 Senior Design team of undergraduate students in ISyE at Georgia Tech \u0026mdash; \u003Cstrong\u003ENishi Anand, Dylan Buczek, Nicholas Buczek, Timothy Lin, Tanay Rajore, and Muriel Wacker\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026mdash; developed two prototype tools to help physicians and their patients calculate the risk of infectious encephalitis and evaluate the benefits and risks of accepting IRD livers for transplant.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe collaboration has now grown into a $1,104,000 budgeted research project and includes a three-year, $651,000 grant from the \u003Cstrong\u003ECarlos and Marguerite Mason Trust\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/Joel_Sokol\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoel Sokol\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003C\/a\u003E ISyE Fouts Family Associate Professor and Director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s interdisciplinary Master of Science in Analytics degree, is the principal investigator on the grant, along with co-investigators Keskinocak and a team of SMEs from the CDC. The ISyE\/CDC team will enlarge the project\u0026rsquo;s scope to other organs and other infectious diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis B and C, as well as pathogens that cause encephalitis. The ISyE investigators will also study the possibility of increased organ sharing among Georgia facilities, to improve the in-state transplant system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the next year or two, statistical analysis of probabilities for transmission of infections compared with survival rates for liver, heart, kidney, and lung transplants will be completed. This will be followed by a pilot study of the currently in development decision support tools in Georgia transplant centers. In addition to the grant from the Carlos and Marguerite Mason Trust, Georgia Tech will also provide funds toward the project\u0026rsquo;s indirect costs, and the CDC has agreed to fund a percentage of in-kind work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe demand and the average time on the waiting lists for organ transplants are growing, while the supply of organs remains comparatively limited.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CHHS\u0027s Pinar Keskinocak and CDC lead ISyE fall 2014 Senior Design team to develop two prototype tools to help physicians and patients calculate risk of infectious encephalitis and evaluate benefits and risks of accepting IRD livers for transplant"}],"uid":"27858","created_gmt":"2016-12-02 19:04:00","changed_gmt":"2017-10-06 19:53:48","author":"Meghan Smithgall","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"533091":{"id":"533091","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinock, INFORMS Fellow","body":null,"created":"1462561200","gmt_created":"2016-05-06 19:00:00","changed":"1475895314","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:14","alt":"Pinar Keskinock, INFORMS Fellow","file":{"fid":"89414","name":"pinar_mag.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pinar_mag_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pinar_mag_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":734910,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/pinar_mag_0.jpg?itok=_MPSV6FR"}},"584578":{"id":"584578","type":"image","title":"Organ Transplant Senior Design- CDC","body":null,"created":"1480705590","gmt_created":"2016-12-02 19:06:30","changed":"1480705590","gmt_changed":"2016-12-02 19:06:30","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222887","name":"Senior Design Finalist photo- Encephilitis CDC group.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Senior%20Design%20Finalist%20photo-%20Encephilitis%20CDC%20group.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Senior%20Design%20Finalist%20photo-%20Encephilitis%20CDC%20group.png","mime":"image\/png","size":492305,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Senior%20Design%20Finalist%20photo-%20Encephilitis%20CDC%20group.png?itok=fijWXkl7"}},"584579":{"id":"584579","type":"image","title":"Joel Sokol","body":null,"created":"1480705655","gmt_created":"2016-12-02 19:07:35","changed":"1480705655","gmt_changed":"2016-12-02 19:07:35","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222888","name":"Joel Sokol.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Joel%20Sokol.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Joel%20Sokol.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":54256,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Joel%20Sokol.jpg?itok=ExdjNwDm"}}},"media_ids":["533091","584578","584579"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/hg\/image\/357021\/740xX_scale","title":"2014 Senior Design Team- Risk Assessment for Organ Transplant "},{"url":"https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/alumni-magazine\/2016fall.pdf","title":"ISyE Fall 2016 Magazine- Organ Transplant article p.37"}],"groups":[{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["chhs@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"584894":{"#nid":"584894","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Julie Swann and Nicoleta Serban Help Clinicians and Public Health Agents Make Decisions Through Data and Analytics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E(From RESEARCH HORIZONS Magazine, Fall 2016)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIndividual states have significant independence in setting health care priorities and determining how those goals will be met through specific service offerings. But how do policymakers evaluate those decisions?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThat\u0026rsquo;s a question Nicoleta Serban and Julie Swann are addressing by studying billions of transaction records from the nation\u0026rsquo;s Medicaid program. Medicaid largely addresses the needs of children, whose issues differ dramatically from those of private-sector workers and older Americans. The Georgia Tech researchers have access to eight years of complete records from 50 million patients, 38 million of them children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;People want to make informed decisions, and we can help them make decisions based on data,\u0026rdquo; said Serban, an associate professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. \u0026ldquo;Health care policies have often been set by clinicians or public health agents who are making decisions based on their experience. We can add a layer of data and health analytics to that.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFor example, in a project supported by Children\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta, Serban looked at how states in the Southeast were managing asthma in children \u0026mdash; a condition identified by the CDC as a priority. With proper diagnosis and management, acute asthma attacks can be minimized.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBased on the Medicaid data, however, she found significant differences among the states in the degree to which the disease was being managed in accordance with guidelines. In the best-performing state, 80 percent of children studied received the recommended care, while in the worst-performing state, only 30 percent of the children studied did.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe implications of care quality are significant and can be measured in costs of emergency treatment, chronic diseases carried into adulthood, time away from work for parents, and the quality of life for affected children. \u0026ldquo;If we can provide the best care now for these children, we can rely on them as adults to be healthier and more productive,\u0026rdquo; Serban said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe findings could spur underperforming states to re-examine their policies, perhaps by looking at states that have done a better job. In some states, care for children with asthma is limited by a shortage of medical providers and practices that accept Medicaid. \u0026ldquo;We cannot charge either patients or clinicians for lack of adherence,\u0026rdquo; Serban said. \u0026ldquo;We are simply looking at compliance within the system and how to intervene.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSerban and Swann \u0026mdash; also a professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering \u0026mdash; have also looked at access to mental and oral health care, access to primary care, the cost-effectiveness of telemedicine, and at the potential return on investment for expanding Medicaid services to cover more preventive care for children. The Medicaid data includes personal information about patients, so Georgia Tech has an extensive protocol for securing it. For instance, the data is maintained on networks not connected to the internet, and can be accessed only in secure data review rooms from which cellphones and other electronic devices are excluded. Only Georgia Tech employees can see the information, and then only for research permitted by the agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWorking out the security infrastructure and agreements for using the data took nearly two years, including the construction of secure data rooms housed at the Institute for People and Technology, a Georgia Tech interdisciplinary research institute.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;When we started, I was a bit na\u0026iuml;ve about the level of security that would be required to protect these data,\u0026rdquo; Serban said. \u0026ldquo;Now that we have established the infrastructure for this database, it is a proof-of-concept for how Georgia Tech can deal with that level of data security and data complexity.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessors Serban and Swann assess billions of transaction records from the nation\u0026rsquo;s Medicaid program using eight years of complete records from 50 million patients, 38 million of them children.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professors Serban and Swann assess billions of transaction records from the nation\u2019s Medicaid program using eight years of complete records from 50 million patients, 38 million of them children."}],"uid":"27858","created_gmt":"2016-12-09 19:08:09","changed_gmt":"2017-10-06 19:52:46","author":"Meghan Smithgall","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"584892":{"id":"584892","type":"image","title":"Julie and Nicoleta","body":null,"created":"1481310413","gmt_created":"2016-12-09 19:06:53","changed":"1481310413","gmt_changed":"2016-12-09 19:06:53","alt":"","file":{"fid":"223008","name":"Research Horizons- Health Data Article- Fall 2016- Photos.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Research%20Horizons-%20Health%20Data%20Article-%20Fall%202016-%20Photos.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Research%20Horizons-%20Health%20Data%20Article-%20Fall%202016-%20Photos.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":51057,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Research%20Horizons-%20Health%20Data%20Article-%20Fall%202016-%20Photos.JPG?itok=HrGXJ-Kt"}}},"media_ids":["584892"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/health-informatics-revolution","title":"Research Horizons Magazine: Fall 2016"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.healthanalytics.gatech.edu\/","title":"GA Tech Center for Health Analytics"}],"groups":[{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1129","name":"healthcare"},{"id":"7251","name":"analytics"},{"id":"438","name":"data"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["chhs@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"585133":{"#nid":"585133","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CHHS Alumna Mallory Soldner now \u0022Doing Good with Data\u0022 at UPS!","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDec 15, 2016 |\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, GA\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBy \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/shelley-wunder-smith\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E, Writer\/Editor, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/585104\u0022\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE)\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMallory Soldner (Ph.D. 2014) is, in her words, \u0026ldquo;driven to push the boundaries of how to do the most good with data.\u0026rdquo; She came to Georgia Tech and the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE) in 2009 specifically to focus on health and humanitarian issues by completing her graduate work with the Center for Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Systems (CHHS). She was particularly interested in the Center\u0026rsquo;s work on cutting-edge humanitarian applications of operations research tying to social impact, led by William W. George Chair and ADVANCE Professor Pinar Keskinocak, Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor Julie Swann, and Ozlem Ergun (now at Northeastern University).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESoldner is now an advanced analytics manager for UPS, where she works on research and development projects and consults within the company. Her recent TED@UPS talk, \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gLOQyp\u0022\u003EYour Company\u0026#39;s Data Could Help End World Hunger,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo; is featured on the TED website and to date has been seen almost 675,000 times.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this interview, Soldner discusses her passion for solving humanitarian issues and the idea of data philanthropy, which was the subject of her TED talk. (\u003Cem\u003EView Soldner\u0026rsquo;s TED talk here:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gLOQyp\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehttp:\/\/bit.ly\/2gLOQyp\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBriefly describe how you began focusing on health and humanitarian issues in your graduate work at ISyE.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy research at Georgia Tech focused on how to improve decision-making in health and humanitarian operations. Application areas included optimization of the food aid supply chain, humanitarian staff reassignment, bottleneck management in transportation networks, allocation of limited resources (e.g., blood or vaccines), malaria prevention logistics, and HIV clinic integration.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the best things about ISyE\u0026rsquo;s CHHS is its collaborations with real-word projects. During my first year at ISyE, I began working at the UN World Food Programme (WFP), where I worked for the next four years developing prototype decision support tools for routing, port bottleneck management, and food basket design\/pipeline planning. The work took me from my tiny office at ISyE, to the WFP headquarters office in Rome, Italy, and on the ground in Zambia to witness supply chain movements firsthand. These humanitarian issues interest me because an engineering approach to get the most from every aid dollar translates into lives saved.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou recently gave a TED talk on how private companies could contribute data and decision scientists to aid humanitarian efforts. You called this \u0026ldquo;data philanthropy.\u0026rdquo; First of all, define what a decision scientist does, and please explain what data philanthropy is and how \u0026ndash; in your words \u0026ndash; \u0026ldquo;this is the future of corporate social responsibility.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA decision scientist transforms pressing concerns into mathematical models that can help address the question at hand with the data available. Decisions can then be informed by the models or the insights generated by the models, which can lead to better choices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gLOQyp\u0022\u003EMy TED talk focuses on data philanthropy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026mdash; companies donating their data, their decision scientists, and their technology to capture new sources of data. Data philanthropy is a modern extension of traditional corporate philanthropic activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the past decade, there has been a paradigm shift in how companies donate; it is no longer just about writing a check. Instead, there is an increased focus on sharing expertise and partnering. We are just seeing the tip of the iceberg in terms of the impact data can have on the humanitarian sector.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIn your TED talk, you described a younger, highly optimistic Mallory who came to the UN World Food Programme in Rome with the intention of solving world hunger. As you say in your talk, your initial efforts were not successful. In spite of what could be considered a failure in this regard, what were your most important takeaways from this experience?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe real world faces many problems that an idealistic student assumes have already been solved. For example, you can have the perfect mathematical model, but if you do not have access to the necessary data that the model assumes, then you have to go back to the drawing board.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis was the case with the first prototype model that I took to Rome, but it wasn\u0026rsquo;t the end of the story. We continued to get feedback on the initial model and continued to refine the decision-making scope (e.g., changing from daily routing decisions to monthly tactical decisions). We also adapted the model for the available data, which led to a new prototype at the end of my time at WFP. The prototype was eventually implemented and impacts food aid operations touching millions of lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe single biggest takeaway from the experience was the importance of long-term partnerships and persistence. When you hit a wall, learn from it, and don\u0026rsquo;t be afraid to try a different approach.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy did you move from the nonprofit sector to working for UPS?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeing in the private sector gives me the opportunity to be at the forefront of applying models and data to make better decisions. It\u0026rsquo;s a fascinating environment for someone like me who enjoys seeing theory being adapted for practical applications. Through the UPS Foundation, I have also been able to stay connected to the humanitarian sector, which makes it the best of both worlds.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is the most exciting and fulfilling aspect of your current job?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI work with a bright team of other academics turned practitioners on a variety of R\u0026amp;D and internal consulting projects. One aspect of the job that I have really enjoyed is getting to work with many different parts of the business, from marketing to operations to pricing. In addition to interesting logistics and modeling problems, I am exploring avenues for larger data philanthropy projects in the humanitarian sector.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are some of the biggest problems in the humanitarian sector that IEs will be working on in the next five years?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIEs can have an impact on many different areas in the humanitarian sector.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne trend I see is an increase in beneficiary-level data, whether that is from cellphones, Twitter, or even donated private sector package scanners. 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The new Transdisciplinary Research Institute for Advancing Data Science (TRIAD) will bring together statistics, mathematics and theoretical computer science to develop the foundations of data science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEfforts to launch the theory-focused institute were supported by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ideas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering and Science\u003C\/a\u003E (IDEaS) with faculty from the Colleges of Engineering, Sciences and Computing. \u003Cstrong\u003EXiaoming Huo\u003C\/strong\u003E, principal investigator and professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE), will serve as the executive director of TRIAD. \u0026ldquo;The establishment of TRIAD is tremendously beneficial considering data science is a phenomenon that brings with it so many opportunities. There is a lot of research that needs to be conducted in this emerging field, and we will focus on building the theoretical foundations to establish the principles of data science,\u0026rdquo; said Huo.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With the launch of TRIAD and the already well-established \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.southbdhub.org\/\u0022\u003ENSF South Big Data Innovation Hub\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech plays a key role nationally in data science from theory to applications to building community partnerships,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003ESrinivas Aluru\u003C\/strong\u003E, co-executive director of IDEaS and a professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDana Randall\u003C\/strong\u003E, fellow co-executive director and professor in the School of Computer Science, said, \u0026ldquo;Advances in data science foundations can lead to revolutionary new solutions for analyzing data. TRIAD will accelerate this research by bridging fields to expand our collective capabilities.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoth Aluru and Randall serve as co-principal investigators of TRIAD, along with \u003Cstrong\u003EPrasad Tetali\u003C\/strong\u003E, a professor in the School of Mathematics and School of Computer Science, and \u003Cstrong\u003EJeff Wu\u003C\/strong\u003E, the Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and a professor in ISyE. \u0026ldquo;The emphasis on theoretical foundations (of data science) offers a great opportunity for mathematicians to actively engage with other scientists and help make breakthroughs in this fast growing interdisciplinary field,\u0026quot; said Tetali.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe analysis of massive, dynamic, noisy and complex data arising in virtually every sphere of human activity is a pressing problem of our time. 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Encompassing 14 institutions in 11 states, these projects will promote long-term research and training activities in data science that transcend disciplinary boundaries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Data is accelerating the pace of scientific discovery and innovation,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EJim Kurose\u003C\/strong\u003E, NSF assistant director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). \u0026ldquo;These new TRIPODS projects will help build the theoretical foundations of data science that will enable continued data-driven discovery and breakthroughs across all fields of science and engineering.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to NSF, the TRIPODS awards will enable data-driven discovery through major investments in state-of-the-art mathematical and statistical tools, better data mining and machine learning approaches, enhanced visualization capabilities and more. 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Such cells could be used in a broad range of life-saving medical therapies now emerging from research laboratories.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELed by the Georgia Institute of Technology, the NSF Engineering Research Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT) could help revolutionize the treatment of cancer, heart disease, autoimmune diseases and other disorders by enabling broad use of potentially curative therapies that utilize living cells \u0026ndash; such as immune cells and stem cells \u0026ndash; as \u0026ldquo;drugs.\u0026rdquo; Examples of these highly promising therapies include T cell-based immunotherapies for blood cancers, such as the one developed at the University of Pennsylvania and approved in August by the U.S. Food \u0026amp; Drug Administration, and a gene-modified stem cell therapy recently approved in Europe for a form of the so-called \u0026ldquo;bubble boy\u0026rdquo; syndrome.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo facilitate the widespread application of these cutting-edge emerging treatments, CMaT will develop robust and scalable technologies, innovative analytical tools, and engineering systems that will enable industry and clinical facilities to reproducibly manufacture efficient, safe and affordable cell-therapy products. The center, one of four ERCs announced September 12 by the NSF, will also develop improved models for a robust supply chain, storage and distribution system for these therapeutic cell products.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBen Wang, Gwaltney Chair in Manufacturing Systems and executive director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute, and Chip White, Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics, are Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE) faculty members who are involved with CMaT. Wang and White\u0026rsquo;s research will focus on developing approaches that will enable the manufacture, storage, and distribution of these cell products, continuing their research already underway that is supported by the Marcus Foundation. Other ISyE faculty members may become involved with CMaT in the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;For over 30 years, NSF Engineering Research Centers have promoted innovation, helped to maintain our competitive edge, and added billions of dollars to the U.S. economy,\u0026rdquo; said NSF Director France C\u0026oacute;rdova. \u0026ldquo;They bring together talented innovators and entrepreneurs with resources from academia, industry and government to produce engineers and engineering systems that solve real-world problems.\u0026nbsp; I am confident that these new ERCs will strengthen U.S. competitiveness for the next generation and continue our legacy of improving the quality of life for all Americans.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the consistent manufacture of\u0026nbsp; cell-based therapies, the public-private CMaT initiative will also help develop a skilled, diverse and inclusive bio-manufacturing workforce through extensive education and training activities at the K-12, technical college, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELiving cells become \u0026ldquo;drugs\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Unlike pharmaceuticals and other products now used in medical treatments, cells are living entities whose properties can significantly change depending on nuances in the way they are grown, stored or otherwise manipulated,\u0026rdquo; said Krishnendu Roy, director of CMaT and the Robert A. 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Additional international academic partners, as well as industry and the U.S. national laboratories, will also be critical collaborators in the effort.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMoving discoveries into application\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech has a long history of building collaborative partnerships with industry, the national labs and other research universities. With the support of the NSF and this new ERC, we will be able to capitalize on expertise in multiple areas, taking transformative research from the laboratory to practice much more quickly,\u0026rdquo; said Georgia Tech President G. P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson. \u0026ldquo;The Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies will also help us educate, train and prepare the workforce in a new industry, thereby continuing to strengthen the U.S. economy.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClinical trials have already established the effectiveness of several cell-based therapies and many other trials are underway. But for these exciting therapies to advance into broad healthcare use, the cells will have to be produced in much larger quantities and with more consistent quality than is now available. There are also very few, if any, established industry standards for analytics and processes in cell manufacturing, which hinders consistent production of safe and efficacious cells. Another key limitation identified by industry is the need for a highly-trained workforce.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECMaT would address these barriers through transformative innovations that build upon a series of earlier efforts, including the National Cell Manufacturing Consortium (NCMC) roadmap, infrastructure established at Georgia Tech with support from the Marcus Foundation, quality and other standards programs from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and independent industry-led bodies, and translational activities by industry, entrepreneurs and other partners.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NSF\u0026rsquo;s multidisciplinary engineering research centers address unique, complex engineering challenges by stimulating knowledge and tech transfer between different sectors, from electronics to energy to infrastructure. Each center takes on a specific engineering research challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The overall goal of the NSF Engineering Research Centers program is nothing less than to revolutionize engineering research and education in the United States,\u0026rdquo; said Dawn Tilbury, NSF assistant director for engineering. \u0026ldquo;We look forward to the exciting advances and outcomes in these important areas.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAccelerating clinical trials\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond established cell-based therapies, the work of CMaT should accelerate the development of new therapies and the testing needed to bring them into the clinic, said Steven Stice, director of the University of Georgia\u0026rsquo;s Regenerative Bioscience Center (RBC). Regenerative medicine applications could offer new ways of treating diseases for which there are now essentially no treatments, including Parkinson\u0026#39;s, Alzheimer\u0026rsquo;s, heart disease and stroke.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There are a significant number of cell therapy clinical trials and investments in the field,\u0026rdquo; Stice said. \u0026ldquo;But there is little or no investment in a set of consistent standardization methods to optimize how these therapies should work. For instance, we know that cell therapies will improve human health, but right now it\u0026rsquo;s difficult to guarantee that each dose produced will be as potent as the next. The work done by CMaT researchers will help solve some of these problems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe University of Pennsylvania develops cellular therapies and has conducted more than 40 clinical trials of cell-based therapies, including those for engineered T cell therapies and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells. An example is recently-approved treatment for relapsed and refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia in pediatric and young adult patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The cell and gene therapy fields are on the cusp of multiple regulatory approvals in the near term,\u0026rdquo; said Bruce Levine, Barbara and Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. \u0026ldquo;The challenges ahead lie in developing manufacturing and testing processes incorporating automation that can bring costs down and allow access to more patients.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDeveloping broad-based innovations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECritical innovations often occur at the boundaries of disciplines, and CMaT will bring together relevant specialties for both research and workforce development, noted Madeline Torres-Lugo, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Due to the complexity of cells as living organisms, a team with a strong background in biology, chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering is required for this initiative,\u0026rdquo; Torres-Lugo said. \u0026ldquo;Our participation and contribution to CMaT will ensure that Puerto Rico not only remains at the forefront of pharma manufacturing, but also supports cell manufacturing technologies here and around the world by educating highly talented engineering students.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECMaT testbeds have been selected to address several cell types that are in early stages of clinical adoption or moving toward clinical applications, but it isn\u0026#39;t yet clear what cell types will have the greatest therapeutic impacts, noted Sean Palecek, the Milton J. and A. 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Past course participants have come to to Atlanta from all over the globe, having \u003Cstrong\u003Elived and worked in over 76 countries\u003C\/strong\u003E with varying experience across the\u0026nbsp;global health and humanitarian sectors. The\u0026nbsp;program is designed for practitioners in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government, industry, and military who are active participants in humanitarian operations, including disaster response, long term development and public health operations; however, others have come from private sector logistics or other areas looking to break into global health or humanitarian work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPast course participants have praised the diverse group of experiences among their classmates and the opportunities to network with and learn from each other as well as the practical applications and group simulation activities which gave them new approaches to challenges in their areas of work. 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This could be because rural patients live further away from doctors and medical services, thus utilizing the services less.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnalyzing the claims is a computationally intensive process; it\u2019s taken a year and a half to examine just ten states. Harati feeds all the Medicaid claims of each patient into\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/solutions.3m.com\/wps\/portal\/3M\/en_US\/Health-Information-Systems\/HIS\/Products-and-Services\/Products-List-A-Z\/Clinical-Risk-Grouping-Software\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E3M\u2019s Clinical Risk Group Software\u003C\/a\u003E, which then assigns each patient a code.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThe code gives you some idea of how healthy they are \u2013 whether they have any dominant chronic conditions or minor conditions, or whether they\u2019re healthy,\u201d she said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMost people probably associate 3M with Post-it Notes, but the company also has developed advanced health analytics and health information systems. The 3M Health Information Systems solutions address many challenges that healthcare providers face, for example, interoperability of data systems, compliance with payer regulations, mobile physician tools among many others.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESerban, Swann and Harati have analyzed Medicaid claims in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. They are now gathering data for larger states like Texas, New York, and California, and will eventually look at records for all 38 million children on Medicaid in all 50 states where data are available. They will share the results with states with the goal of reducing costs, improving health outcomes for patients, and gaining a better understanding of the Medicaid system in general, which varies from state to state unlike the federally-controlled Medicare program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe implementation of the 3M Clinical Risk Grouping with the Medicaid claims data is relevant not only in understanding cost variations, but also obtaining prevalence of diseases and controlling for interventions. \u201cChildren with asthma who are healthy otherwise will utilize the system differently if they have other conditions, such as depression,\u201d said Serban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cStates may have access to their own Medicaid data, but they don\u2019t have the computational resources that Georgia Tech does,\u201d said Swann. \u201cWhen our reports on cost and disease prevalence are ready, we will share them with the states. There may be some additional things they can get from these reports.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChildren\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, ISyE and IPaT are providing support for this project.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearch teams analyzed six years of Medicaid claims for every child in ten U.S. states and found that healthy children are 50 to 60 percent of the total cost in the Medicaid system in GA.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Research teams analyzed six years of Medicaid claims for every child in ten U.S. states and found that healthy children are 50 to 60 percent of the total cost in the Medicaid system in GA."}],"uid":"27858","created_gmt":"2016-06-15 12:14:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:53","author":"Meghan Smithgall","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"544931":{"id":"544931","type":"image","title":"Baby vaccine","body":null,"created":"1466092800","gmt_created":"2016-06-16 16:00:00","changed":"1475895324","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:24","alt":"Baby vaccine","file":{"fid":"91126","name":"baby_vaccine.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/baby_vaccine.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/baby_vaccine.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5509,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/baby_vaccine.jpg?itok=WF6Amuj4"}}},"media_ids":["544931"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-researchers-examine-medicaid-costs-children","title":"ISyE Website (article)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.healthanalytics.gatech.edu\/","title":"GT Health Analytics"}],"groups":[{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMeghan Smithgall\u003Cbr \/\u003ECHHS\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-1432\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["msmithgall@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"531731":{"#nid":"531731","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CHHS Recognized for Global Impact with 2016 Denning Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessors Pinar Keskinocak and Julie Swann, co-directors of the \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hhscenter.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Systems\u003C\/a\u003E (CHHS)\u003C\/strong\u003E and professors in the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE) have been honored with George Tech\u2019s 2016 \u003Cstrong\u003ESteven A. Denning Award for Global Engagement. \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Keskinocak holds the William W. George Chair in ISyE and ADVANCE Professor in the College of Engineering, and Dr. Swann is the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor in ISyE. The center focuses on transforming global health and humanitarian systems through education, outreach, and innovative solutions and was recently named one of the 4 Phase I Interdisciplinary Research Centers (IRC) on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Denning Award for Global Engagement recognizes Georgia Tech faculty who have demonstrated sustained outstanding achievement and commitment to the advancement of the Institute\u2019s global engagement. Keskinocak and Swann founded the Center for Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Systems at Georgia Tech in 2007 with Dr. Ozlem Ergun (now at Northeastern University) with the vision of applying advanced science and evidence-based approaches to improve healthcare delivery and operations, public health decisions, and humanitarian systems (for both disasters and long-term development).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak and Swann carry out the center\u2019s vision by implementing cutting edge solutions, capacity building, sharing of best practices and the creation of next generation leaders. The education offering includes case studies and teaching resources, degree courses and hands on opportunities for students, as well as a professional certificate program for practitioners across NGOs, government, private sector and academia around the world to train in health and humanitarian supply chain management. In the outreach area, the center hosts speakers and events with partners from across various sectors active in global health and humanitarian operations, including the 8th annual \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hhscenter.gatech.edu\/conference\/\u0022\u003EConference on Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Logistics\u003C\/a\u003E to be held in 2016 at GA Tech after traveling around the world. The global impact of the center\u2019s education and outreach extends across 6 continents to over 85 countries where course and conference participants have lived and worked and across the more than 200 collaborating organizations working to save and improve lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis Denning award is funded through the generous support provided in the establishment of the Steven A. Denning Chair in Global Engagement in the Office of International Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Steven A. 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There is no charge for the event, but please register in advance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Institute for People and Technology (IPaT)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hhscenter.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E(CHHS) brought together\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003Egovernmental experts, policy makers, researchers, and decision makers to share current efforts, research, and new problems identified in the space of disaster and humanitarian response.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Through this limited engagement, stakeholders shareed, learned, and built problem solving coalitions against the many new and rapidly emerging population-level problems affecting our country and the world at-large.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EForum Objectives:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003Ediscuss current state of the art practices and strategies to respond to disaster\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Elearn about the ongoing research and technology development to support and enhance our capabilities for disaster responses\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eunderstand the role of community in response, and;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eexplore the gaps and opportunities to improve response systems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPoster\u0026nbsp;submission\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eon view at the event on technologies or research applications related to challenges in disaster response, visit:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/disaster-response-and-mitigation-forum-poster-session\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/disaster-response-and-mitigation-forum-poster-session\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology (IPaT)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;connects Georgia Tech researchers to a network of industry, government and nonprofit partners to create game-changing ideas and new technologies that drive economic growth and empower people through\u0026nbsp;five main areas of research: health, media, education, humanitarian systems and enterprise transformation. To learn more about IPaT partners and initiatives on and off campus, visit:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/ipat.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eipat.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Center for Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is\u0026nbsp;an Interdisciplinary Research Center (IRC) at Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;aiming to improve healthcare delivery and operations, public health, and humanitarian response and development though education, outreach and innovative solutions. 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Each of these centers brings together researchers from different disciplines across campus to address topics of strategic importance to Georgia Tech, promoting collaborative research and coordinating activities aimed at large external funding opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECHHS was founded in 2007 with the vision to serve as an academic engine for improve the delivery of health care, disaster response, and long-term development though advanced science and technology. 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She represents IBM on the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation\u2019s Disaster Assistance and Recovery Working Group. She also serves on the board of directors of the American Red Cross of Massachusetts and leads IBM\u2019s global citizenship Grant-making Center of Excellence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EMs. Curzon has been part of global teams to integrate IBM\u2019s strategies in corporate citizenship into the business and to leverage business offerings for community benefit. In 2003 she helped launch the On Demand Community, IBM\u2019s flagship global initiative and website to support IBMers as they volunteer in their communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EMs. Curzon came to IBM from Lotus Development Corporation where she managed volunteerism and philanthropic programs focusing on nonprofit\u0027s use of Lotus software. Previously she was with the Smithsonian Institution. 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Participants also visited the regional United Nations Human Resource Response Depot (UN HRD) where they examined resource storage, transportation fleets, and distribution models, viewing the panel and workshop topics in light of real world scenarios in the Asia Pacific region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s Conference brought together 113 participants from 25 countries and from NGOs such as Aidmatrix and Atlanta-based CARE to MERCY Malaysia, Nigeria-based SHI\u2013Logistics, and the United Nations Africa Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). 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Panel topics addressed challenges and new ways of addressing the value chain in food security; resource pooling and collaboration for capacity building in disaster response; temperature-controlled cholera vaccine transportation in global health, and experiences and learned best practices for disaster response and recovery in megacities such as the Earthquake in Tokyo or Hurricane Sandy in New York. Workshops focused more specifically on case studies and allowed for fruitful participant discussion and strategizing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVarious participants shared positive feedback on the diversity of organizations and the networking opportunities as well as the interactive workshop discussions and case studies. Ali Baba Syed of the International Rescue Committee in Pakistan praised the event as a \u201cgreat platform for the humanitarian workers, especially for logisticians, to learn more and to share information.\u201d Ronald Chandra of World Vision remarked that the break-out sessions provided a great opportunity to apply experience to the new information shared. Others highlighted the variety of topics and the caliber of speakers and presentations that mixed academic knowledge and research with industry and NGO experience in Logistics. 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