Once again, the Consulate General of France in Atlanta and the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering to present a series of 15 French-American events designed to breathe new life into the cooperation between France and the U.S. Southeast: “France-Atlanta 2012”.

The 2013 Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics: The Unique Logistical Challenges for Humanitarian Response in Asia will be held June 4-5, 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia.

The new Health and Humanitarian Logistics professional education certificate program at Georgia Tech consists of three courses:

(1.) Pre-planning Strategy for Health and Humanitarian Organizations
(2.) Tactical Decision Making in Public Health and Humanitarian Response
(3.) Systems Operations in Health and Humanitarian Response

The Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University are partnering to offer a new master’s degree program track in predictive health.

Georgia Tech systems engineers are using computer models to help resource-poor nations improve distribution of breast milk and non-pharmaceutical interventions for malaria. They are also forecasting what health care services would be available in the event of natural disasters in Caribbean nations.

Kristin Goin, MS HS 2008, has been selected to be the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) representative for the 2012 New Faces of Engineering.

Özlem Ergun, who is also a visiting associate professor at Harvard, took the work she is doing in the Georgia Tech Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics to a group of Harvard students who were participating in the IACS Computational Challenge.