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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Organized by the Center for Humanitarian Logistics, under the umbrella of the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech, the conference will bring together speakers and attendees from non-government organizations (NGOs), industry, government, military, and academia focusing on various topics, including planning, preparing, and responding to disasters; recovery and mitigation; addressing major societal problems related to health and short and long term humanitarian response.
The main objectives of the conference are to articulate the opportunities and challenges in humanitarian response and world health, both from a humanitarian and a corporate/economic perspective, to identify important research issues, to create academic awareness for the research opportunities and to establish priorities for NGOs, corporations, and the government in terms of their strategies, policies, and investments.
