Humanitarian Response: Program

March 2, 2013 | Gordon College

Humanitarian Response: Innovation to Meet Needs
Conference on Delivering Health and Humanitarian Assistance

March 2, 2013
Gordon College

9:30–10 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast (Loggia, KOSC)
10–10:15 a.m.	Welcome (KOSC 109 or Chairman's Room) Janel Curry, Provost, Gordon College Mike Veatch, Professor of Mathematics, Gordon College
10:15–10:30 a.m.	Innovation in Humanitarian Response Jarrod Goentzel, Humanitarian Response Lab, MIT
10:30 a.m.– 12 p.m.	International Health Response (Haiti), (KOSC 109 or Chairman's Room) Kathryn Kempton, Director of International Operations, Partners in Health Laurent Dedieu, Logistics Supervisor, Médicins Sans Frontières Dan Neal, Director of Global Logistics, Heart to Heart International
12–1:30 p.m.	Lunch (Lane Student Center - Chester's Place)
1:30–2:45 p.m.	Domestic Crisis Response (United States), (Chairman's Room) Erin Bores, Emergency Planner, California Department of Public Health Michael A. Orfitelli, Disaster Services Coordinator, Salvation Army Dan Neal, Director of Global Logistics, Heart to Heart International
2:45–3:15 p.m.	Break
3:15–4 p.m.	Parallel Sessions: Disaster Response (KOSC 124) Food Security (KOSC 125) Global Health (KOSC 127) (Details below)
4–5 p.m.	Reception (Loggia) Cider and cheese

Parallel Session—Disaster Response (KOSC 124)

Julia Moline, MIT: Donations and Muckout Management for Hurricane Sandy Response
Mike Veatch, Gordon College: Airport Operations after the Haiti Earthquake

Parallel Session—Food Security (KOSC 125)

Anna Jonker, Gordon College, and Simmy Willemann, MIT: Supplying Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Feeding Products for UNICEF Nutrition Programs
Hisham Bedri, MIT: Value Chain Analysis to Support Food Vouchers in Darfur

Parallel Session—Global Health (KOSC 127)

Brittany Johnson and Anand Bhatia, MIT: Private Sector Pharmaceutical Distribution in Zambia and Zimbabwe
Kathryn Nishimura and Jian Wang, MIT: Optimizing United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot Stockpiles