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Atlanta, GA | Posted: April 6, 2010
A summary, titled "Logistics data key to humanitarian aid," of the 2010 Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference was featured in the April issue of Air Cargo World.
"As the UN reports $2.3 billion in aid to Haiti, including over $500 million from the US, speakers at last month's Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) conference on humanitarian logistics said some aid isn't helpful.
"The Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics [which sponsored the conference], a unit of the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute of Georgia Tech, was founded in 2007 with the goal of improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. The recent conference included attendees from Canada, Croatia, Germany, India, Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom."
Read the entire article at: http://www.aircargoworld.com/Magazine/World-News/April-10-Americas/Logistics-data-key-to-humanitarian-aid
